Fruit Salad with Pawpaw Vinaigrette

A fruit salad really doesn’t need much of a recipe. Choose some of your favorite fruits, chop ‘em up, mix ‘em together, and it’s done! But taking a little extra time to add some fresh herbs and a sweet, mild vinaigrette is the extra touch that turns a simple and delicious fruit salad into an elegant and memorable dish, with each element tasting like the best version of itself.

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Fresh Herb-Infused Olive Oil

A versatile player in a well-stocked pantry, herb-infused olive oil is easy to reach for in a variety of recipes. Add a layer of flavor to pasta and salad dressings, or use as a dipping oil for crusty artisan breads. Drizzle over baked potatoes, baste grilled meats or add to a marinade. Anywhere you would use olive oil is a perfect time to use this delicious variation.

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Pavlova with Strawberries

Strawberries are the quintessential fruit of Spring. In the Ohio Valley, nothing screams the transition from Spring to Summer like strawberries. Good strawberries, small to medium in size, have some of the best flavors you can find and are perfect for this dish.

Pavlova, a dessert consisting of a meringue shell topped with whipped cream and fruit and is a great vehicle to let the flavor of the strawberry shine. The recipe requires a bit of skill in the creation of the meringue and it is a little more time intensive than some of our other recipes, but the end results are well worth it.

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Sausage, Kale, and White Bean Soup

This soup features: ground pork which was traditionally butchered and processed late autumn with the ham reaching a salted cure by the solstice, beans, having been harvested mid-September and stored, and kale, a crop over wintered with a covering of straw or on more wealthy farms glass hot boxes. In these modern times we rarely see a seasonality to any of this.

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