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Summer Salads Get Dressed Up

Author on May 1, 2013 in CHGA, Featured, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Recipes, Spice Blog | 0 comments

Summer is here and so are salads. We eat them year ’round but this is a special time for salads. We grow gourmet...

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Recipe: Garlic-Broccoli Pasta with Italian Vinegar

Author on Mar 5, 2013 in CHGA, Featured, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Recipes, Spice Blog | 0 comments

Featuring Chaparral Gardens Artisan Vinegars’ savory Italian vinegar, this recipe for garlic-broccoli pasta is fast and...

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A Toast to Vinegar, Food as Medicine

Author on Jan 22, 2012 in CHGA, How To, Local Special, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Spice Blog | 0 comments

Whether added to mixed vegetables or a mixed drink, “Vinegar’s the Zamboni for the tongue,” says one vinegar proponent...

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Chaparral Gardens and Winter Squash

Author on Dec 17, 2011 in CHGA, Local Special, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Spice Blog | 0 comments

“We grow 120 different varieties of pumpkins and winter squash,” says Becky Barlogio of Jack Creek Farms on Highway 46 halfway...

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Artisan Vinegars, Secret Ingredients

Author on Dec 4, 2011 in CHGA, Local Special, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Spice Blog | 0 comments

It started with a gift of golden raspberries. “You can have them all,” said Craig and Cari Clark’s neighbor who had...

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Chaparral Gardens Artisan Vinegars

Author on Oct 17, 2011 in CHGA, Local Special, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Spice Blog | 1 comment

“There’s the Mother,” says Cari Clark as she gently plucks a strand of diaphanous material that clings to the raised lid of the...

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How to Make Vinegar

Author on Feb 7, 2011 in CHGA, Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices, Spice Blog | 0 comments

by Craig Clark Take any fermenting alcohol liquid and expose it to oxygen. This creates the formation of a cellulose and acetobacter...

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Central Coast Olive Oil & Vinegars

Author on Jan 12, 2011 in Olive Oil, Vinegar & Spices | 0 comments

36 Degrees, Paso Robles Alta Cresta Olive Orchard, Paso Robles Belle Olive Oil, Watsonville Carriage Estate, Templeton Casa Pau Hana...

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