Fruit: Recipes for Lunch, Brunch, Desserts And More

By: Glover, Brian

Healthy, delicious, and infinitely varied, fruit is the world's favourite food. As this irresistible book makes clear, it is the ideal choice at any time of the day, and it can be used in so many ways: in salsas to spice up meat and fish dishes; in soups and appetizers, and, of course, in desserts.Start the day with some delicious treats such as Blackberry Buttermilk Pancakes with Apple Butter. See how using fruit in Appetizers, Soups, and Salads can take them to new heights. Ideas for Entrees include Duck with Spiced Plums and Chicken Tagine with Quinces and Preserved Lemons. For Dessert try Summer Fruit Salad with Kaffir Lime Sorbet or Exotic Fruit Scrunch. Finally, Preserves are an excellent way to use all types of fruit. Red Berry Jelly and Apple Chutney are among the delicious homemade treats.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845971043
• ISBN13: 9781845971045
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Very nice collection of recipes. Buy it cheap!

`Fruit Recipes for Lunch, Brunch, Desserts, and More', with an introduction by Brian Glover, appears to be a book originally published by a United Kingdom publishing house similar to Conde Nast in the United States which publishes cookbooks derived from material in `Gourmet' or `Bon Appetit'. There is no one person credited as the author, but the author of the introductory essay, Brian Glover is credited with being a major UK culinary writer, transplanted from his career as a librarian. The main thing this book has going for it is the fact that there are very few good books written exclusively about recipes for fruit. The best one I have seen so far is `Chez Panisse Fruit'. There are certainly far fewer such books than for vegetables; however, there are some very good books dedicated to Berries (see `The Berry Bible' by Janie Hibler'). The book has that very glossy air about it so common with books destined to take the expressway to the bargain book table. And, if you happen to find the book offered at a steep discount, I suggest you snap it up right away. Books on fruit recipes other than in pies or smoothies are a boon, since virtually every fruit known to man is healthier for you than virtually every common `snack food', but how can we stomach five servings a day by simply eating raw fruit. The second thing going for this book is the fact that many of the recipes appear immediately attractive to me AND they are very easy to prepare. This is true because most fruit is used raw or cooked oh so quickly in a quick poach, except for preserves, which are a whole different story. In fact, it takes even less time to cook fruit than it does most vegetables. Understandably, almost all the dishes, especially the entrees, are not composed exclusively of fruit. They are typically paired with a protein such as fish, chicken, duck, lamb, or pork. As such, this is a nice tutorial on which fruits go well with which proteins, such as the well known pork and apple combo. There are a few things about the book which are not ideal for American readers or readers in general. As the book was written and edited by a gang of Brits, many of the names of fruit varieties, especially apples, pears, and berries, are unfamiliar to their American cousins. To the good, all measurements are in the very familiar cups, ounces, and spoons units. The one thing which bothered me most about the book is that it was organized by type of dish rather than by species of fruit, as we find in the Chez Panisse volume. This is because so many fruits, especially berries and melons, are so much better in season than out of local season, so one is much more inclined to search out strawberry recipes in June and peach recipes in August and orange recipes in December than to look for a fruit brunch or entrée. Another good reason for organizing everything by species is the fact that it puts everything on one fruit, strawberries, for example, together in one place. In this book, information abo