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Maybe you read the news that last month was the warmest January on record. And perhaps you've noticed the city's ornamental cherry trees are blooming pink. But let's face it: the bloom is not yet off the rose. It's still winter. And when we cook in winter, we often turn to our freezers for inspiration. I do, anyway. Though, as I've mentioned before, what I find in there isn't always so inspiring. Today on "Food for Thought," I had a chat with my radio sidekick Dick Stein about a handful of frozen fruit and vegetable must-haves taking up royal residence in my freezer, including these:
I've been doing a lot of summer fruits coming in from Chile, their
summer…our winter. The fruit is starting to export in, and let me tell
you something, the apricots aren't that bad. I remember a few years ago
if they came in from Chile I'd rather eat a lemon, but look at this.
They have some nice color to them, a translucent orange all the way
around and a little bit of a red or purple tinge to them, which is
good. That means they have a nice sweetness inside them and they have a
little soft give to the touch, which is the way you're supposed to
select an apricot.