🍯 honey glazed fruit 🍐 (Patreon)

Rejoice for I have brought you a harvest season recipe that will brighten up your autumnal dinner table. 

The fruit trees are ripe with seasonal produce. Who, tell me, can take advantage of all of nature's blessings? Well, this simple recipe will definitely help you make the most of the gifts from the trees. You will need but a few ingredients as seen above - seasonal fruit such as apples, pears, plums, peaches and nectarines, a little honey and some cheese. 

If you've been following me for a while you might recognize a pattern here as many of my recipes follow a recurring theme of "put cheese on top and shunt it in the oven" - but it really couldn't be simpler or more delicious. 

For this dish you want to preheat your oven to 225°C (440F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper (or anything else that makes shit not stick because, honey, it will... haha... get it...)

Wash and halve your fruit, discarding the core/pit, and arrange it on the baking sheet. If the halves have a bit of a tilt (it happens, fruit grows the way it grows) simply slice a small piece off the bottom to make it sit flat on the dish. 

Now coat the 'open' side of your fruit with honey, one to two teaspoons should suffice but hey - we don't measure honey nor cheese here. Coat the surface until it's coated - end of story. Then you can lay on some cheese - it will work with either feta cheese, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, brie or any variation of creamy soft cheeses - and stick the lot in the oven on whatever you call the 'slightly above middle' rack and bake for 10 minutes. 

After the 10 minutes, turn the broiler on and broil the fruit for another 4 minutes. The cheese should get a few golden/browned spots by that time.

Allow it to cool for 5 minutes before serving and enjoy as a sweet-savory side to any dish or a simple healthy meal by itself. 

Between the protein rich cheese and fiber rich fruit, it actually makes for a very filling yet light meal. I used a mix of feta cheese and cottage cheese because that's what I had. This is what I love about variable recipes like this one - you can use what you have on hand and it's almost guaranteed to come out delicious. You can even add parmesan or some garden herbs to further blur the line between sweet and savory, sprinkle cinnamon or ginger for an especially cozy autumnal treat, mix a hint of vanilla extract into the cheese to make it extra dessert-y... I mean the possibilities are endless!

I would love it oh so much if this dish found its way to your harvest/thanksgiving table as a way of honoring the bounty of our earth. May she bless you with impeccable health and boundless energy. 

Blessed be