Tag: Summer recipes

The Best of Summer: Strawberry & Lemon Sorbet

There are some recipes that stop you in your tracks and require few words. This is one of them – a ‘genius recipe’ in the new column by Kristen Miglore, senior editor at food52.com where weekly, great recipes are unearthed from the worlds cookbooks.DSC_1546This recipe thrilled me to no end because

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Mango Slaw For The Queen

…on her birthday.

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I wonder if it is actually possible to adopt royalty. Well, if it isn’t then I would like to give a slaw of mangoes to the Dutch queen on this gracious occasion of her birthday. A bit of tropical meets spring meets western and tastes delicious. And more even. Read more…

Galia Melon Marmalade

Progress…at last, she says smiling at her ability to walk up the stairs to her third floor office without total collapse and shortage of breath.

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Ancho Strawberry Preserve, for Week 4

True confession, and I think we better get it said and out of the way. I would hate for you to hear it from someone else, after all this time we’ve spent together. So,….

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Cooking with fruit: Peaches

Every summer I’m infatuated with one stone fruit or the other: last summer it was plums, encouraged by a killer bargain I explored their use in various ways; this year its peaches. Next year just might be Apricots, who knows!

IMG_7924Surprisingly however I didn’t know the difference between a peach and a nectarine, confusing the two until a few days ago.  I thought the downy skinned fruit were nectarines and the smooth-skinned ones were peaches. Not so I discovered. Peaches have fuzzy,  skin and nectarines don’t. Read more…