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

by Laurie Pfalzer

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 saut�ed, 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

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

208 pages, Hardcover

Published February 18, 2020

Reviews

[Karista Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most delicious books of the year with beautiful fresh ingredient recipes for every season. I highly recommend this book!

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of good dessert recipes. I wish I was more of a dessert cook. But I did follow the author on Instagram for future ideas.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Using fruits common to the seasons in the northern hemisphere - loved some of the recipes and ideas for using fruit in season.