Contributor: Crystal “Pikko” Watanabe Ingredients: 3 lbs lamb meat, cubed 2-3 tbsp cooking oil 1 tbsp sugar 3 tbsp flour 2 cans beef broth 1 cup tomato pulp or 3 tbsp tomato paste 1 sprig rosemary, leaves snipped salt to taste pepper to taste 3 large carrots, peeled and chopped […]

Contributor: Stephanie O’Dea Ingredients: 4 pounds boneless leg of lamb 1 teaspoon each of: rosemary cumin kosher salt pepper 4 cloves garlic, chopped 2 cups dried plums 1/2 cup white wine (you could use apple juice) 1 cinnamon stick Directions: Use a 4-5 quart crockpot. Put meat inside, and rub […]

Serves: 5-8 Ingredients: Although the original recipe calls for 4 small chickens to be quartered, you could easily do this recipe with 5 pounds of chicken pieces, thighs and breasts. 4 chickens, 2 1/2 pounds each, quartered 1 head of garlic, peeled and finely pureed 1/4 cup dried oregano coarse […]

Prep Time: 10 minutes Serves: approx. 36 Ingredients: 1 ¼ cup chopped Stapleton’s Pitted Prunes ¾ cup packed brown sugar Slightly less than 1 cup chopped walnuts ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 package Puffy Pastry dough – (try Pepperidge Farm in the frozen section) Directions: Heat oven to 400 ͦ […]

Gridley, CA – Stapleton-Spence’s fruit processing and co-pack facility has the largest solar water heating system ever installed in California, saving the company 37,584 therms of natural gas annually. 37,500 therms is equivalent to 1 million kWh or a carbon footprint offset of 1.4 million pounds of CO2, the equivalent […]