On a clear beautiful tropical morning 75 years ago, December 7th 1941, the Japanese Imperial Fleet surprised the U.S. Military in a raid of unprecedented size and for the next 2 hours wave after wave of planes pounded the ships and bases in and around Pearl Harbor.
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been fading since the Fall of France in 1940, disappeared. Clandestine support of the United Kingdom (e.g., the Neutrality Patrol) was replaced by active alliance. Subsequent operations by the U.S. prompted Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to declare war on the U.S. on December 11, which was reciprocated by the U.S. the same day.
The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but the USS Arizona (BB-39) were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed. One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.
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If you are new to healthy eating and you have pledged to eating more fruits you can’t do any better than eating navel oranges.
I don’t know about you but Navel Oranges are my favorite among oranges. The great news is that Navel Orange harvesting will be begin in just few weeks.
There are numerous health benefits to navel oranges, and these go beyond just the obvious. The obvious and most well-know benefit of navel oranges is of course Vitamin C. This is arguably the most well-known benefit because navel oranges are a citrus fruit, and every citrus fruit has some kind of Vitamin C content to it. Though the amount of C content can vary amongst all the citrus fruits, the amount in navel oranges is definitely high. But again, this is not the only benefit of navel oranges, just the most obvious.
Another great health benefit of navel oranges is beta carotene. This is an antioxidant that helps prevent and repair cell damage. This cell damage can be due to any number of things like illness or free radicals, which are everywhere and which the body also naturally produces free radicals as a byproduct of digestion. Getting rid of these using the beta carotene in navel oranges can greatly improve your health and vitality.
Most dieticians will tell you that it is better to get these vitamins and minerals out of your food rather than a pill. And since navel oranges are low in calories, fat and cholesterol free and high in fiber and other nutrients, it is a good way to get your daily dosage of these things. It is also juicy and delicious, and available all through the winter.
What is better than a sweet and delicious citrus fruit like navel oranges to get you through the chilly fall and icy winter? They will remind you of spring and summer even as the snow outside is gathering. Indeed, navel oranges can make you appreciate the sun of spring and heat of summer that much more when they return.
Calcium is another benefit of navel oranges that you may not have thought of. Often, you can find calcium enhanced juices in the dairy case, but many times if you eat a varied diet and consume navel oranges, you may not need that extra calcium. The rest is simply extra that will go unprocessed by your body.
In the store choose oranges that have smoothly textured skin and are firm and heavy for their size. These will have a higher juice content than those that are either spongy or lighter in weight. In general, oranges that are smaller will be juicier than those that are larger in size, as will those that feature thinner skins. Of course you can let Sunburst Oranges choose the very best for you. We will have Navels in just a few weeks.
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The best guide to how your fruiotn plants are doing and best chance to intervene with a potential problem is to get outside. Occasionally water with the hose. The time it takes to fill the basin of each plant will give you the opportunity to look the plant over. Your plant can tell you many things if you take time to look. The color of the leaves can indicate certain nutrient deviancies. Curling of the leaves depending on which direction can reveal over or under watering. Damage to the leaves or trunk can reveal pests or disease and all possibly give you enough time to seek advise and react. If you use a watering system such as drip emitters be advised they are not fool proof. Apart from the fact that the emitters have to be changed and adjusted yearly to coincide with your maturing tree they can also fail or become plugged, and a few days or weeks with out water might have an irreversible affect.
Mangos, Bananas, Avocados, in a desert climate? Can it be done? Sure it can and is being done all over town. With a little planning and consideration to sun, wind, cold and watering you can grow numerous types of tropical and sub-tropical fruit plants and trees. Arizona's great year round climate lends itself to a wonderful array of possibilities, and in no time at all you too can be growing and eating home grown Mangos and Bananas from your own back yard.
Many think that the summer heat is the main killer and reason you can't grow many tropical plants in a desert. Well, have you ever been to India, Thailand or even Florida, it is brutally hot in the summer, factor in the humidity and well you know. Closer to home did you know that there are over 30,000 Keitt mango trees growing in the hot desert area of the Coachella Valley of California, (Salton Sea), where the daily summer highs rarely dip below 105f, and a normal summer day averages 114f. Some of the ripened fruit is distributed through local Costo stores nation wide and the remaining is shipped to Asian markets over seas. Sure the Arizona (Phoenix) summer is hot and uncomfortable for us, but this is not completely so for tropical plants. Though summer sun and heat is a factor, the main killer is wind and cold, second biggest killer is under watering newly planted trees. The presumption when someone says California climate is to think of the pleasant southern costal area and beaches and how easy plants grow there. Apart from the coastal area, the truth is that California has a diverse climate just like Arizona, from searing deserts to snowy mountains and all the challenges that come with growing sub-tropical plants.
Why don't more people plant tropical fruit trees you ask? Well actually a lot do, but in a city nearing 4 million people the percentage in relation to the number of homes is small, and the amount of nurseries in the valley offering these plants and the expertise to succesfully grow them is nearly non existence. Another factor is unfamiliarity with the plants and fruits themselves. One might think that everyone in California has a jaboticaba, lychee or pitahaya growing in their backyard and that these plants are sold at every corner nursery, but the fact is they don't and they aren't. It also takes a trained eye to spot a mature avocado tree or mango tree if you have never seen one before, so it is quite possible that you might have seen many plants you didn't know could grow here and didn't even know it. Still another factor is that people are on the go, the average time people keep a house is around 7 years in the valley. Tropical trees take time to mature and take on going care. With owners changing hands so frequently, chances are the new residents will not have the same landscape desires as the previous ones and the plant is removed or dies from lack of care, this is less evident in the older sections of town with mature landscapes. Also with the growing popularity of HOA's and their strick landscape restrictions, many tropical and subtropical trees if they are allowed at all are probably trucked away behind the house and block fences, unable to be seen from the street. One last misconception is that tropical trees need absurd amounts of water, and though yes they need more frequent water than desert adapted plants or that nature provides, they will require far less water than a pool or grass lawn would consume.
The following is a general tropical planting guide. The advise is derived from years of trial and error, reading of numerous books, web sites and the advise and guidance of many friends who share the passion and desire to grow these plants in the arid desert. I've listed some of the main sources at the end of this article, one in particular is the "Arizona Rare Fruit Growers" who meet every second Thursday at 730pm in the Maricopa County Extension building at the corner of 43rd Place & Southern Ave. in Phoenix. If you really like gardening and growing exotic and not so exotic fruit trees and plants then I highly recommend considering a membership. The fee is minimal and the rewards are great. At very least, a visit to their demonstration garden at the same address is a must. There you will see mature fruiting trees, all of which are planted and cared for by the members who are everyday backyard gardeners like you.
Well if you are ready, lets get started, however before we do let me make this statement. Gardeners have been growing and killing plants for as long as anyone knows, yes desert plants too. No one is exempt from this fact and try as you might it cannot be avoided. Soil condition, drainage, humidity, heat, cold, diseases, pests, winds, pollination are only a few of of the many obstacles that stand in our way and many well beyond our control. I will also say that every gardener, novice or experienced has an opinion, and what works in one persons garden does not necessarily work for another. With that in mind I encourage you to follow the links on our website, buy or borrow the various books listed and conduct research of your own using the search engine of your choice, then modify the information as necessary to fit your individual planting situation.
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Sweet potato pie is a traditional dessert, originating in the Southern United States. It is often served during the American holiday season, especially at Thanksgiving, and is similar in many ways to pumpkin pie. Marshmallows are sometimes added as a topping, but this was adopted more in the Northern United States than in the South.
It is usually made as a large tart in an open pie shell without a top crust. The filling consists of mashed sweet potatoes, milk, sugar and eggs, flavored with spices such as nutmeg. Other possible ingredients include vanilla or banana extracts. The baked custard filling may vary from a light and silky to dense, depending on the recipe's ratio of mashed potato, milk and eggs.
The History
Though creamy vegetable pie recipes date back to Medieval Europe, sweet potato pie appears in the southern United States from the early colonial days. Like many sweet potato recipes, sweet potato pie was likely developed by African-American slaves from traditional African cuisine, making it a staple of soul food today. Recipes for sweet potato pie first appeared in printed cookbooks in the 18th century, where it was included with savory vegetable dishes. By the 19th century, sweet potato pie was more commonly classified as a dessert.
Ingredients
4 medium sweet potatoes
1/2 stick butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 unbaked pie crust
Maple whipped cream, optional, recipe follows
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Bake sweet potatoes for 1 hour in the oven on a baking sheet. When done, let cool. Scrape the pulp out of the skin, transfer to a large bowl, and mash. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy. Add eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Add evaporated milk and stir mixture into sweet potatoes. Beat together with mixer until smooth and pour into an unbaked pie shell.
Bake on bottom rack of oven for 1 hour or until center of pie is firm. Serve warm. Add dollop of whipped cream if desired.
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Many of us mistakenly look to orange juice today as a dangerous source of highly concentrated fructose – simple “carbs” – without recognizing its profound medicinal properties. We sometimes think we can get the vitamin C activity oranges contain through the semi-synthetic ‘nutrient’ ascorbic acid, without realizing that an orange embodies (as do all whole foods) a complex orchestra of chemistries… The ‘monochemical nutrient’ – ascorbic acid – is merely a shadow of the vitamin C activity that is carried and expressed through only living foods. The orange, after all, looks like a miniature sun, is formed as a condensation of energy and information from sunlight, and therefore is capable of storing and after being eaten irradiating us with life-giving packets of information-dense gene-regulating nutrition, by a mechanism that will never be fully reducible to or intelligible by the chemical skeleton we know of as ascorbic acid.
Given that thought, here are some of the evidence-based benefits of orange juice:
Orange Juice Improves “Good” Cholesterol: While it is debatable that lowering so-called “LDL” cholesterol is nearly as good for heart health as statin drug manufacturers would like for us to believe, raising “HDL” cholesterol does seem to have real health benefits. This is, however, quite hard to do with diet and nutrition, and impossible through medication. Other than taking high-dose fish oil, few things have been studied to be effective. Except, that is, orange juice. A 2000 study found that the consumption of 750 mL of orange juice a day, over a 4 weeks, improved blood lipid profiles by decreasing the LDL-HDL cholesterol ratio by 16% in patients with elevated cholesterol.
Orange Juice Boosts Bone Health: A 2006 animal study in male rats found that orange juice positively influenced antioxidant status and bone strength.
Orange Juice (mixed with Blackcurrant Juice) Reduces Inflammation: A 2009 study in patients with peripheral artery disease found that orange and blackcurrant juice reduced C-reactive protein (11%) and fibrinogen levels (3%), two concrete measures of systemic inflammation. A 2010 study found that Orange juice neutralizes the proinflammatory effect of a high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal and prevents endotoxin induced toxicity.
Orange Juice Boosts Weight Loss: A 2011 study found that children who regularly drank orange juice consumed an average of 523 calories a day more than children who did not drink orange juice regularly. Yet surprisingly, there was no difference in the weight levels between the orange juice consumers and the non-orange juice consumers.
Orange Juice May Dissolve Kidney Stones: A 2006 study found that orange juice consumption was associated with lower calculated calcium oxalate supersaturation and lower calculated undissociated uric acid, two indices of lowered urinary calcium stone formation.
Orange Juice Extract Suppresses Prostate Proliferation: Despite the fructose content, a 2006 study found a standardized extract of red orange juice inhibited the proliferation of human prostate cells in vitro.
The Peel of the Orange
The peel of the orange contains a broad range of potent, potentially therapeutic compounds. These include pectin and flavonoid constituents, such as hersperiden, naringin, polymethoxyflavones, quercetin and rutin, various carotenoids, and a major odor constituent known as d-limonene, which makes up 90% of the citrus peel oil content, and is a compound that gets its name from the rind of the lemon, which contains a significant quantity of it. It is listed in the US Code of Federal Regulations as generally recognized as safe (GRAS), and is commonly used as a flavoring agent. D-limonene has been studied to have potent anti-cancer properties, including against metastatic melanoma.
The whole peel extract has been studied to have a wide range of benefits:
Orange Peel exhibits Anti-Arthritic Properties: A 2010 study found that orange peel extract significant suppressed vaccine adjuvant-induced arthritis in a preclinical model.
Orange Peel (Flavonoids) Exhibit Anti-Cancer Properties: A 2007 study found that orange peel extract inhibited tumorigenesis in a preclinical mouse model of adenomatous polyposis and increases programmed cell death.[i] Two additional 2007studies found that orange peel extract has anti-breast cancer properties. The first, by exhibiting chemopreventive properties against mammary tumor lesions in an animal model. The second, by inhibiting breast cancer cell lines in vitro. Additionally, a 2000 study found that flavanone intake is inversely associated with esophageal cancer risk and may account, with vitamin C, for the protective effect of fruit, especially citrus fruit, on esophageal cancer.
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Did you have sweet potatoes for your Thanksgiving dinner?
Health Benefits Of Sweet Potatoes:
Antioxidants
Beta-carotene gives the sweet potato its deep orange color. One medium potato also provides us with over 200% of our Daily Value of vitamin A. Vitamin A plays a key role in the health of our eyes, skin, skeletal and soft tissue, and even our teeth!
Anthocyanin lends the purple sweet potato its unusual violet hue. Purple sweet potatoes contain antioxidants with anti-inflammatory properties similar to red wine.
Blood Sugar Regulation
The high fiber content of sweet potatoes slows the release of sugar into the bloodstream, helping to keep blood sugar steady.
6 New Ways to Enjoy Sweet Potatoes
Wash and peel sweet potatoes; cut into long 3/4-inch-wide strips; toss with olive oil and cayenne pepper. Bake at 425 degrees for 25 minutes for crispy sweet potato fries with a kick! The fat content of the oil will help with absorption of the beta-carotene in the sweet potatoes.
Purée cooked sweet potatoes with bananas, maple syrup and cinnamon. Top with chopped walnuts. The healthy fat in walnuts also helps with beta-carotene absorption.
Sweet Potato Pancakes:
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup store-bought pancake mix
• 1 small pinch ground nutmeg
• 1 small sweet potato, boiled, peeled and mashed
Cook batter according to pancake mix directions.
Make your own baby food by puréeing cooked sweet potato, adding water for correct consistency.
Microwave a medium-sized spud on HIGH for 4 to 6 minutes. Cut off the top fourth of the potato and scoop out the flesh. Blend the inside of the potato with a splash of skim milk, a spoonful of maple syrup and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice. Stuff the mixture back into the potato shell and sprinkle with chopped pecans.
Grill them! Wash, leave peel on and cut into wedges. Marinate with bottled low-sodium teriyaki sauce and grill until tender.
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