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Ode to My Apple Tree Kale Salad
After a 3-year fruit drought, our apple tree produced a bounty of fruit this year. Our apples may not be the most gorgeous you have ever seen, but they are firm, sweet yet tart, and wonderful for baking, making sauce, and eating. I have made countless apple crisps this season, lots of applesauce to freeze, and an apple a day goes into every salad I assemble. The skin is mottled and barely presentable to the consumer's eye, but I love love love that we have a tree in our yard that is giving us such a gift. My other love of this season is local kale that is crisp and just screams healthy. Every day for weeks I have made a kale salad for lunch, puffing up my chest while thinking of the nutritional density of this glorious vegetable. This salad is meant to give my two loves equal billing, with just a little crunch of nut and a sprinkle of cheese to complete the taste.
Italian Prune Plum Galette
A simple seasonal dessert that is perfect for fall--see more at http://threecleversisters.com/2011/10/09/italian-prune-plum-galette/
Watermelon Shake
Whether hosting a party or planning some fun times with your loved ones, this refreshing and fast-to-fix watermelon shake recipe is the ideal drink to serve.
Cucumber and Papaya Salad with Chili
This Papaya Cucumber combo is unusual and marvelous. Easy and refreshing Salad recipe that requires only 4 ingredients and takes a few minutes to make.
Tomato and Feta Salad
No oil, dressing, vinegar, or salt. Requiring only three ingredients, this refreshing tomato salad is deliciously simple and great in the summer. Use two medium basil leaves and one rounded tablespoon of feta per tomato. Although room-temperature tomatoes provide more flavor, a more refreshing salad can be made by chilling the final salad for a half hour before serving.
Pear Delights
Made it up for an appetizer and it evolved over time
Fresh Pears and Frico
This recipe is so easy and uses just three ingredients but makes for a nice little appetizer.
Baked Pear in Lavender Syrup
Honestly, this recipe was a spur of the moment solution for the need of a sweet ending to a fall dinner. If I had the usual neccessities in my fridge/freezer, i would have certainly served this over vanilla ice cream or with a dollop of whipped cream; however, all I had since I was running around all weekend was a glorious, local chèvre, freshly picked barlett pears, and lavender sugar. I decided to put two and two together and low and behold, I was far from disappointed. This not only satisfied my sweet tooth, it introduced a whole new way to appreciate a pear. I loved the sweet, herbal infusion from the lavender with the subtle zing from the goat cheese. Nonetheless, this could easily be dressed up or down, in a myriad of ways, depending on your patience and/or what's in your icebox. Enjoy :)
The Wedding's Over Simple Salad
We had a lot of beautiful green onions and tomatoes leftover from a wedding. Always quick to the obvious, I thought: let's make a recipe for some salads.
Pear-Infused Vodka
There are few cocktails better than a high-quality vodka with a real fruit infusion. In this pear-infused recipe, you will be rewarded after a one-week wait.
Peach Pie Dumpling
There is nothing complicated about this little dumpling. Puff pastry lining a muffin cup, one cut up peach per cup, sugar, corn starch and maybe a spoonful of homemade blueberry preserves before wrapping it up. It is pure peach, when you you take a bit. I usually make 6 at a time, but they are gone almost instantly.
Leftover Cherry Dip
I love fresh cherries in the summer...but I never seem to eat them all before they start to dry out. I used "leftover" cherries that I wouldn't have eaten alone in this dip / chutney / compote. I hope you enjoy:)
Bloody Snake Bite
This Red Rattlesnake Drink recipe has the potent & tangy combination of lime, Southern Comfort & cranberry juice. Make when you're in a New Orleans kind of mood.
Frozen Nutty Chocolate Bananas on a Stick
A light, made-for-summer take on fair food, reminiscent of the flavors that can be found amongst the Looff Carnival confection stands on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
Real Strawberry Lemonade
This Real Strawberry Lemonade recipe is a fresh alternative to the store-bought artificially flavored version. It's full of strawberries & squeezed lemon juice.
Poor Man's Kirsch (Alternately: Redneck Kirsch)
I wanted to preserve sour cherries in something without too much flavor. Having no vodka on hand, I turned to white lightening. Voila: homemade kirsch recipe.
“Plum Wine” with Lime
Black plums are one of my favorite things. This Lime Plum Wine recipe is tangy and refreshing and a lovely shade of deep pink. Garnish with a small basil leaf.
Sweet & Tart Relish
A friend of ours procured a five pound hunk of porchetta that we roasted for a dinner party that was screaming for something bright to balance out the richness of the meat. We just got our annual shipment of sweet onions from Walla Walla, and with the appearance of sour cherries at Chicago farmers markets, I felt that I was on to something magical. The resulting relish was the perfect accompaniment to the pork, and I'm itching to try the leftovers on grilled salmon.
Blueberry Grappa Sauce
This Blueberry Grappa recipe is great because it's not too sweet, isn't pureed, and it finishes with the sting of grappa. Serve with cake, ice cream, or yogurt.
Sarah K's Greengage Plum Jam
I listed the instructions exactly as I made the greengage plum jam recipe. A food pickle recipe from the word go. Thank you Sarah K for the idea & instructions!
Frosted Ginger Peach Bellini
Ripe, sweet summer peaches make this drink seasonal and delicious!
Ginger Cranberry Cooler
Cape Cods seem a bit strong for a summer sipping drink, so I refreshed the Cape Cod with some ginger ale for a refreshing summer drink.
Crema di Limoncello - Limoncello Milk Liqueur
This crema di limoncello is a typical recipe from the South of Italy, based on the Limoncello but adding milk to the liqueur. Serve the subtle drink chilled.
Evergreen
Very Belini like, not too alcoholic, full of fruit, blended using a fruit slush rather then ice to cool it.