Sumac and smoked paprika-spiced, oven-roasted salmon with sweet potato, parsnip, and apple salad. This post is a light fall dish with smoky sweet flavors and a hint of citrus. The recipe for this salmon is straightforward and simple. But julienning 15 cups of vegetables can be a job. If you would like to split up […]
Warm cranberry citrus cider spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. This recipe is a cross between hot apple cider and Russian cranberry Mors. It is spiced and served hot like cider, but without the apples. Instead, as in Mors, fresh tart cranberries and citrus are simmered with sugar and water to release their flavor. I […]
Sweet-tart plumcot, fresh orange, and red wine sangria. This sangria recipe blends a fruity red wine with ripe plumcots, navel oranges, a splash of vodka, and a touch of brown sugar. Plumcots, pluots, apriums, or apriplums are fruits produced from the cross-breeding of plum and apricot trees. Because of many different species of plums and […]
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 […]
Plums, cara cara oranges, blood oranges, bosc pears, and gala apples mixed with a citrus sherry dressing. This salad is a colorful mélange of delicately flavored fruits, with hints of pepper and sherry. I am ending this week’s series of plum posts with a simple fruit salad recipe. Just because it is simple doesn’t mean […]
Oven-roasted pork tenderloin and plums, with a spiced orange plum sauce. Pork tenderloin and roasted plums with a spiced soy-based sauce, loaded with citrusy flavors from the Timut pepper, ginger, and Cara Cara orange. This recipe is simple, but it has two ingredients that can be hard to come by, Shaoxing wine and Timut pepper. […]
