Prompt: Fruit Recipes

[runpunkrun]

Pull out your fruit recipes, folks. It's fruit week. Give us your strawberry chia jam tarts, your Chinese chicken salads, your oatmeal banana smoothies. If it has fruit in it, it qualifies.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

If you like deadlines, you have one week to fill this prompt!

If you don't like deadlines, there's no deadline, and you can participate whenever you want.

As always, these prompts are just in case you need a little inspiration. During this time, you can continue to post to the comm even if it isn't related to the prompt.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Apple slices instead of crackers from jesse_the_k
• Microwave poached pear, vegan apple crumble, apple cake, and chicken salad from rosefox
• Raspberry Coulis from runpunkrun
• Melon with smoked meats, mango with chili, salt, and lime from j00j

Comments

Apple slices and (everything)

[jesse_the_k]

....thinly sliced apples are even better than crackers!

I've used apple slices as bases/dippers for:

- sliced cheese
- peanut butter
- apple butter
- sweet rice miso
- hummus

Re: Apple slices and (everything)

[runpunkrun]

I second this and will add:

- sliced turkey
- roasted almonds

[rosefox]

Microwave-"poached" pear with vanilla ice cream, for those who like poached pears and don't like waiting:

https://subtlehouse.dreamwidth.org/9924.html?format=light

Vegan GF apple crumble, one of my guaranteed crowd-pleaser desserts:

https://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/1799410.html?format=light#cutid2

Apple cake, which gets better in the fridge so feel free to make a whole lot of it:

https://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/3513179.html?format=light

And since you mentioned chicken salad, here's mine, with currants, almonds, celery, and apples:

https://subtlehouse.dreamwidth.org/7208.html?format=light

Raspberry Coulis, aka Raspberry Sauce

[runpunkrun]

* 1/2 cup granulated sugar
* 3 tablespoons water
* 1 lb fresh or frozen raspberries raspberries, rinsed
* 1 teaspoon kirsch (optional) or 1 teaspoon framboise eau-de-vie (optional) or 1 teaspoon lemon juice

1. Heat the sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring from time to time, until the sugar dissolves completely, about 5 minutes.
2. Put the raspberries and the sugar syrup in a blender and puree.
3. Strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove the seeds and stir in the kirsch, framboise or lemon juice.
4. The sauce keeps well, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for 4-5 days and freezes perfectly for several months.

from Genius Kitchen

Really simple to make. All you need is a blender, a sieve (a cone strainer would be ideal!), and the patience to squeeze all the sauce through the sieve, but it's worth it not to have to crunch on all those seeds. Depending on how tidy you are your kitchen may resemble a murder scene once you're done. Also worth it. Frozen fruit works perfectly for this. In fact, I've never used fresh berries for it.

This will last for weeks in the fridge, and even months, but I'm not a doctor or a lawyer so don't quote me on that. Lasts forever in the freezer. Great on top of yogurt, ice cream, brownies, waffles, pancakes, crepes, cheesecake, pound cake, angel food cake, and probably just straight up cake. Tastes like raspberry heaven.

[j00j]

Summer fruit treats:
- Cantaloupe or honeydew melon with prosciutto or smoked salmon-- lovely savory/sweet combo. Duck prosciutto is another amazing option for people who don't eat pork, though not cheap or universally available.
- Mango with chili, salt, and lime http://partaste.com/worldrecipes/mango-chile-limon-spicy-mexican-lime-chili-recipe/