Simple Fruit: Seasonal Recipes for Baking, Poaching, Sautéing, and Roasting

By: Laurie Pfalzer

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Synopsis: Some fruits are at their best when eaten fresh, while others reveal their truest and most delicious flavor when cooked. Understanding how to enjoy fruit at its peak of flavor--whether it's lightly sautéed, poached, baked, braised, or roasted--is the key, and this cookbook for home cooks shows you how.Simple Fruit inspires home cooks to explore and enhance the flavors of fruit throughout the year. Each recipe applies a cooking technique that wakes the senses with the distinct flavor characteristics of a fruit. Simple Fruit is a fresh way to approach fruit.The 50 recipes in this book are organized seasonally and by type of fruit, with a focus on bringing out the best flavor in fruit. Whether it's Vanilla-Roasted Rhubarb, Strawberry Pavlova, Cherry Hand Pies, or Grilled Apricots with Brown Butter and Maple-Tamari Glaze, Simple Fruit encourages and inspires readers to explore the unique flavors of cooked fruits, and gives them options to create a variety of seasonal desserts. Fruits include: • Rhubarb • Strawberries • Cherries • Raspberries • Blueberries • Blackberries, marionberries, tayberries • Peaches and nectarines • Apricots • Plums • Apples • Pears • Cranberries • Citrus • Dried fruits<