Category: fruit
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apple muffins
Happy New Year! It’s okay to still be saying that, right? It’s like saying “good morning” at 11:45 AM! I feel like posting one’s first blog post of the year in late January is sort of like the equivalent of being the last person in your neighborhood to take down your Christmas decorations! Oh well,…
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apple pull apart rolls
Greetings! As soon as I saw these pull-apart rolls on the King Arthur website, I wanted to make them. For the boiled cider used in their recipe, I instead substituted 4 cups of apple juice that I reduced to 1/2 cup. I couldn’t find apple cider anywhere in the grocery stores around me, for some…
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clementine almond cake
“Oh my darling, oh my darlingOh my darling, ClementineYou were lost and gone foreverDreadful sorrow, Clementine.” The benefit of using clementines instead of oranges is that they seem to have less membrane or pithy parts and are fairly juicy and full of orange flavor. Also they are easier to peel. Make sure you zest them…
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rosehip nut bread
Okay, I promise this is the last time you’ll be seeing rosehips here. Haha! Lessons learned from a overeager weekend forager: Rugosa rosehips may seem ripe, but if you wait a few more weeks, their colors deepen even more, and they get a little softer. Debate is still out whether their flavor deepens, too, although…
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rosemary cranberry pine nut crisps
What a difference one little ‘s’ makes. I’m talking about crisps! This is not the recipe where you bake fruit in a casserole dish with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour. Crisps are crisp, crunchy, twice-baked slices of quick bread that are more like crackers than slices of bread. They are like…
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fig tamarind pop tarts
Happy April! These pop tarts may look rather plain and ordinary, but they are something special. Two things: Leaf lard and the fig-tamarind combo. I searched for a fig-tamarind jam combo online back in November, but didn’t find any, but now there is a company that puts out a Fig Tamarind Jam!! But since I…
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wild blackberry croissant bread pudding
Okay, I’ll be honest. This recipe could be made simpler by using all store bought ingredients, but where’s the fun in that? Part of the fun, I think, is tasting the literal fruits of your labor! And I know it may not be always possible to forage for berries in the wild, but if you…
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Benedictine Pear Loaf Cake
If ever there was a recurrent theme for me here, it would be a quick bread made in a loaf pan. That’s just how I roll, I guess. Maybe I should change the name to Dave’s Quick Bread Recipes? Hmmm. This came about actually while initially searching online for an apple cake recipe, and finding…
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green plum upside down cake
Let’s see…all this (as in my quest to find the perfect plums) started because a coworker gave me a small container of very sweet green plums. Which I was immediately drawn to, because usually one equates green fruits as being unripe or sour. Although these looked like they would be sour, they were not. In fact, they were completely ripe,…
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