Shrimp marinated in lime juice and Hawaiian sea salt, mixed with shaved coconut, cantaloupe, cucumber, and coconut milk. This recipe is a sweeter, fruitier take on the traditional Tahitian dish poisson cru. Poisson cru, literally meaning raw fish, is a Tahitian dish much like Latin American ceviche. It consists of raw fish or seafood marinated […]
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Longan Fruit Salad
Longan, cherries, and cantaloupe with kumquat citrus syrup. It’s summertime, and some of the best fruits are in season. So why not throw them together in a tasty salad? This salad is made with one of my favorite tropical fruits, longans. The fruit is from a tree in the soapberry family of which lychee and […]
Duck Prosciutto and Cantaloupe Salad
Homemade duck prosciutto, goat cheese, arugula, cantaloupe, cucumber, and candied mac-nuts, with blackberry vinaigrette. This salad boasts a variety of palate popping flavors with its sweet cantaloupe, peppery arugula, refreshing mint and cucumber, salty duck ham, sweet-tart blackberries, and crunchy mac-nuts. The cantaloupe and cucumber for this salad are cut into ribbons using a mandolin […]
Cantaloupe Colada
Fresh cantaloupe juice, coconut milk, light rum, and coconut rum. This refreshing summer cocktail is a play on the classic pina colada, swapping out the pineapple for cantaloupe juice. When picking a cantaloupe for this recipe, try to pick one that is really ripe. The riper the fruit is, the juicier it will be, and […]