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We’re serving it with a seasonal gratin – sprouts and chestnuts, a classic pairing, beefed up with nutty borlotti beans and earthy sage. If you like, you can fry some extra sage leaves as we did to garnish the top: heat a little oil in a pan, add the sage and fry for a minute or so, until they crisp up (they become slightly darker once done). Drain on kitchen paper and scatter over the top of the gratin.

“We can package their oatmeal into small packages and tell each farm’s story on the back of the oatmeal package. Consumers love that story, and it’s something unique to us and our area,” he adds.

Black oil sunflower seeds are the most commonly offered food in the backyard. They also are attractive to the widest variety of birds: cardinals, chickadees, doves, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, jays, nuthatches, sparrows, woodpeckers and more.

With a crackly outer dark chocolate shell and a smooth sunflower butter center, these truffles are as rich as anything Godiva can come up with but have a leg up for being vegan and Paleo-friendly. Don’t expect them to last long.

Opening Half Moon Bay to commercial cannabis could change the city forever, they worry, normalizing pot for teenagers, luring outside investors with nefarious motives, and drawing federal scrutiny upon farm laborers, many of whom are undocumented Mexican workers.

Fresh chestnuts are available in shops and at markets from the end of September until the end of January. If you’re buying them fresh, look for ones with shiny dark brown skins that feel heavy and don’t have any cracks in its skin already, as this may lead to mouldy nuts inside. 

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There’s a lot going on in here that you wouldn’t expect in traditional brownies: sunflower butter, puréed sweet potatoes, coconut flour, and maple syrup. But don’t knock ‘em til you try ‘em; with all the cocoa powder and chocolate chips, plus that sweet sunflower butter swirl, they’ll meet all of your expectations.

Green tea makes for a healthful, energizing drink, and it contains certain compounds that may benefit the skin.

There’s a new biggest pumpkin in town, and it’s a whopping 2,528 pounds — making it the largest pumpkin in North America. Steve Geddes of Boscawen, New Hampshire, a farmer who has been growing pumpkins for a decade now, grew the enormous squash and won $6,000 in prize money at the Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire on Sept. 27.

These melt-in-your-mouth squares may be called fudge, but they don’t contain a hint of refined sugar, butter, or milk. Instead, it’s all about the sunflower butter and maple syrup flavors, with chopped walnuts sprinkled on top for a fun texture contrast.

DEAR MARY: Ah, those pesky crows. They are very smart birds, but they haven’t learned to share with others.