Roasted Boar's Head with Apples

Roasted Boar's Head, adored with apples, was a traditional menu focal point for any royal feast during the Elizabethan Era. Roast pork served with spiced apples highlights the special menu featured at the 2013 Barker Hall dinner event on April 13.

New Products for Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012

Better than ever

Grapples Grape Flavored Apples

Grapples are the only apple on the market that actually crunches like an apple, and tastes like a grape. As healthy as other apples, nothing else on the market is like them and this distinction has lead to their gaining popularity. They are $2.99 to $3.99 in the produce section of stores or …

FROM the FARM: Easy apple cake recipe a simple hit

While pumpkin seems to be the preference for Thanksgiving dinner pies, apple likely has even more of a traditional connection with the early day colonists.

Easy tips to make holiday parties healthier

Give guests a leg up on their New Year's resolutions with these tasty, healthful tweaks to your favorite holiday dishes.

Some Red Delicious are more delicious than others

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history.

Local apple orchards and pumpkin farms offer favorite autumn attractions

Fall has moved in after a very unusual weather year that has not been good for apple orchards, but has helped produce some good pumpkin crops. Some area farms that open in the late summer and fall have had to make adjustments due to unusual conditions this year, but families can expect to fi…

U-pick offerings fewer as crops lost

A lone apple in a tree at County Line Orchard in Hobart on Thursday. Due to bad weather, the orchard lost most of its apple harvest. To remain open and continue established customer traditions, the orchard chose to source apples from elsewhere and make them available for "picking" from gutte…

U-pick offerings fewer as crops lost

Apples sit in a rain gutter hanging from a tree at County Line Orchard in Hobart on Thursday. Due to bad weather the orchard lost most of its apple harvest and came up with the gutter idea to allow for an apple picking experience. The apples are shipped in from other orchards.

U-pick offerings fewer as crops lost

Myers Elementary School first grader Payton Smith, center, and Madison Cooper, right, pick apples out of a rain gutter hanging from a tree at County Line Orchard in Hobart on Thursday. Due to bad weather the orchard lost most of its apple harvest. To remain open and continue established cust…

U-pick offerings fewer as crops lost

County Line Orchard tour giude Liz Chalfant explains to Myers Elementary School first graders how apples grow at the orchard in Hobart on Thursday. Due to bad weather, the orchard lost most of their apple harvest, but has shipped in apples from other orchards.

Apples are tempting, but not just to us

With more forethought, Adam might not have bitten the apple and I might not have planted apple trees. But he did, and I did, and we each must deal with the consequences.

FROM THE FARM: Winning apple pie recipe includes a nod to cobbler

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FROM THE FARM: Recipe opportunities span apples to oranges

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It's apple pickin' time: Head to local orchards for a healthy snack

With autumn just around the corner, fruit fans and home cooks are turning their attention to apples. And local orchards are starting to brim with the crunchy fruit.

Cooking up a competition: VHS students turn up heat in Iron Chef contest

VALPARAISO | First impressions can sell or sink a prepared recipe.

FROM THE FARM: Valparaiso High students cook up talent, creative recipes for contest

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Row by Row

ROW BY ROW - - Lines of newly planted apple trees are the promise of new orchard space and future fruit for the Radke Family and their Michigan City, Ind. orchards, which have been around since 1894.