Every day in an effort to stave off afternoon sweets attacks, I make a fruit bowl for my desk before I leave the cafeteria after eating lunch. Today I had cherries and a peach. Yesterday I had raspberries, blueberries and a banana.
Entries Tagged as 'fruit'
Experiments in Fruit Grilling
July 7th, 2004 · 12 Comments
Grilling avocados, peaches, and plantains
Haute Grilled Avocado & Grilled Peach with balsamic & blue cheese
Tonight I actually got some motivation and put together the grill I bought a few weeks ago. I decided I wanted to grill some fruit so I looked up some recipes and instructions. The Grilled Peaches with balsamic and blue cheese were tasty. A good combination of sweet and bitter and spicy. I think I needed to put a bit more cheese on them. I liked the Haute Grilled Avocados the best. You can see the Grilled Plantains with Spicy Brown Sugar Glaze are missing. That’s because no matter how long I left them on the grill they never reached the soft, darkly-carmelized state described in the recipe. Any suggestions? I think they may not have been ripe enough.
BTW, you can’t get plantains in the downtown, State St. Jewel, but the one in Wicker Park, which is surrounded by a large hispanic population, has a ton of them. Not that Jewel is the best place to be buying produce.. just saying..
Tags:avocado·bbq·Chicago·cooking and baking·east ukrainian village·fruit·grill·peach·plantain
Father’s Day
June 20th, 2004 · 9 Comments
Papaya for fruit salad
Father’s Day Breakfast
Old Table
New Table
Today my dad came down from Wisconsin and I surprised him by having breakfast ready when he arrived. We had Double Cinnamon French Toast, Fruit Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing, turkey sausage, and peanut butter cup cookies. Later on we went to Ikea. I needed to buy bookcases and realized that after I unpack my books from the boxes that they’re in I’d no longer have a living room table. My old table was two boxes of books with two shelves balanced between them. So I bought a table too. So far I only have the table assembled. Anyone want to help put together bookcases?
Tags:Chicago·dad·fathers day·french toast·fruit·Holidays·ikea·papaya·schaumburg·Shopping