December 2, 2009: Juicy Summertime Fruits

I direct maintain non been a adept calendar cooker this terminal calendar month - it's taken me until the outset twain of days of Dec to educate November's recipe! Initially I pose it off because I hadn't seen whatever prissy summertime rock fruits about, therefore things got wildly sociable in addition to in that place wasn't much habitation cooking or fruit buying going on.

What was worse than my tardiness was my inability to follow a uncomplicated recipe. Skewer fruit, coat fruit amongst melted butter in addition to sugar, shaver in addition to swallow - how difficult tin it be? Well, if it's undertaken inward the latter hours of a weeknight, that's challenge enough. Brushing melted butter onto the fruit shish-kebabs was a petty messy but rolling them inward saccharide was much, much worse. Things reached crisis betoken when I realised that my skewers were likewise long to stand upward for inward the frypan. Argh! I de-skewered the fruit into the pan, chucked inward the remaining butter in addition to sugar, in addition to allow it all bubble away for a few minutes spell I calmed the heck down. When the fruit was tender I transferred it to bowls, in addition to gave the sauce a infinitesimal to a greater extent than to reduce. Once the sauce was done it was into the bowls too, followed past times a scoop of icecream. It wasn't shish-kebabs, but it was tasty.


Fruit shish-kebabs (or fruit shish-kerfuffle)

2 peaches
2 apricots
8 strawberries
30g butter, melted
1/3 loving cup raw sugar
vanilla H2O ice cream, to serve

The official method: Slice upward the fruit in addition to slide the pieces onto skewers. Preheat a frypan (big plenty for the skewers to stand upward for inside!). Brush the fruit skewers amongst melted butter, therefore ringlet them inward the sugar. Cook them for five minutes on each side, therefore serve them warm amongst icecream.

The late-and-lazy method: Preheat a frypan in addition to melt the butter inward it. Slice upward the fruit in addition to add together it to the pan; sprinkle over the sugar. Cook the fruit, stirring occasionally, until tender. Remove the fruit into serving bowls in addition to educate the juices downwards to a thicker sauce. Pour the juices over the fruit. Served topped amongst icecream.