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Cool & Creamy Pawpaw Cheesecake with Pecan Crust
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Pawpaw Cheesecake with Pecan Crust

The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a curious fruit. Until recently, few Americans were even aware of its existence, which is unusual, since it’s the largest fruit native to North America and once was a valued food source for both Native Americans and early European settlers. Of course, the pawpaw never really went away, but continued growing quietly in the background here and there; along riverbanks, near rusty, disused train tracks and on old abandoned homesteads across the eastern U.S., as far …

Ripe pawpaws, ready to eat
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3 Super Easy Ways to Enjoy Pawpaws!

While you’ve probably heard of pawpaws, you may not be quite sure of what they are or where they come from. Let’s just put it this way: if you’ve never experienced the flavor of this amazing fruit, you owe it to yourself to give it a try.  If you need more convincing, here are three reasons why pawpaws should be on your shopping list. 1. Pawpaws Taste GreatFirst, and most importantly, pawpaws are simply delicious. While often described as a …

Pawpaw curd pave with meyer lemon and huckleberries
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Dreamy creamy, spreadable pawpaw curd

If you’re a fan of pawpaws, you’ve probably eaten your share of the fresh fruit in season. But what about the rest of the year? Pawpaws are notoriously hard to store for more than two or three weeks in the fridge, and if unrefrigerated, the large, oval fruits ripen quickly and must be eaten within a few days. The answer?Pawpaw curd, another fantastic way to preserve the exotic flavor of pawpaws – practically indefinitely. Fruit curds are a mixture of …

Cherry Bread Pudding
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Fresh Cherry Bread Pudding

The best things in life are often the simplest. Bread pudding is one of those things. Bread pudding is something of a blank canvas for the creative cook. Made from a handful of ingredients that are found in almost every kitchen – milk, eggs, butter, sugar and leftover bread – bread pudding is one of the most basic comfort foods that there is. With the addition of a few spices and flavorings, the variations are infinite. Easier to make than …

Grilled Sweet Cherry & Apricot Kebabs
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Grilled Sweet Cherry and Apricot Kebabs

Is there anything finer, more perfect than a ripe, ruby-red cherry? Sure, we all love succulent strawberries, plump blueberries and juicy raspberries, but nothing can rival a cherry, that bright red summery globe so beloved of birds and small children. Cherries have a long and tangled relationship with mankind (you could say it’s “complicated”). Cherries, both sweet and tart, seem to have originated in Asia Minor, somewhere in the region between the Black and Caspian Seas. While they appear rather …

Hungarian Cherry Soup
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Cherries Tart, Cherries Sweet: Two Refreshing Summertime Recipes for Cherry Lovers

Cherries are the fruit of summer.  First to appear are sweet cherries, large crisp globes of juicy flesh, perfect for eating fresh by the handful.  A few weeks later, tart (or sour) cherries arrive, bringing with them a frenzy of pie-baking, canning and freezing.  There are literally dozens (perhaps hundreds) of cultivars of both sweet and tart cherries, many well-known, others grown only in the small towns and hamlets where they’ve been nurtured in obscurity for centuries. Tart cherries are …

Maple-glazed Chanterelle & Arugula Salad with Grilled Apricots and Pecans
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Maple-glazed Chanterelle & Arugula Salad with Grilled Apricots and Pecans

Among the most well-known and best-loved of wild mushrooms, chanterelles figure prominently in the wild mushroom seasonal cycle, usually starting up in late spring or early summer, just as the season for fresh morels begins to wind down. After that, chanterelles can be depended upon to be be growing in some part of the world for the next 6 to 8 months, and frequently longer. Their cheerful orange-yellow color and distinctive trumpet-like shape make chanterelles one of the most easily …

Pear Maple Syrup Pie
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As American As… Pear Pie?

“As American as Mom’s _______ pie.” Most people would automatically fill that space with the word “apple.” There’s certainly nothing wrong with apple pie (it’s one of our favorites), but the word “pear” would be just as correct. Domesticated apples may have been cultivated in America first (the first apple orchard on the North American continent was planted in Boston by a certain Reverend William Blaxton in 1625), but if pears weren’t there at the very start, there is no doubt that they …