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New York, my sister’s in-law made this salad for us. The same one who gave us cucumber fried eggs. I was completely taken in. Especially as it required no technique, no fancy ingredients, could be made ahead and tasted great, even days later. This is going in my dinner party repertoire.
Lets take the simple components one by one, as proof and evidence of why they should not be disdained: Tinned Fruit salad, Jarred Nata de coco, (Philadelphia) cream cheese and condensed milk.
I must confess that for many years, mandarin oranges were the only tinned fruit I loved. I would eat them from the tin, segment after segment. Till I discovered tinned pears. And now tinned fruit salad.
Ok, tinned fruit tastes nothing like the real fruit versions. I find the simple syrup it is canned in mellows out the true taste. But the texture is interesting. Soft, somewhat firm and colourful with the cherries that are canned with it.
To be called fruit cocktail, the American United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) stipulates that canned “fruit cocktail” must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears, grapes,cherries, peaches, and pineapples to be marketed as fruit cocktail. It must contain fruits in the following range of percentages:
30% to 50% diced peaches, any yellow variety
25% to 45% diced pears, any variety
6% to 16% diced pineapple, any variety
6% to 20% whole grapes, any seedless variety
2% to 6% cherry halves, any light sweet or artificial red variety (usually maraschino cherries)
The grapes make me smile the most – they remind me of ‘barely dressed’ gooseberries!
When served as an appetizer or as a dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail or fruit cup.
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PS: DON’T LOOK AT THE ‘ARTIFICIALLY COLOURED’ CHERRIES ON THE INGREDIENTS LIST!
I came across Nata de Coco, an Asian jellied coconut delicacy for the first time on Food Network’s Season 9 of Chopped. Contestants had it in their dessert baskets, along with Kirby cucumbers, beignet mix and lemon lime soda.
It is a product that originated in the Philippines. It comes from fermented coconut water or milk, with added acidic bacteria, Acetobacter xylinus which causes a natural gelatinization. Think of translucent coconut cubes with floral overtones and a rubbery jellied texture that grows on you.
In The Philippines, it is served as a dessert or candy after adding a sweetener to it. It is also served as an accompaniment to pickles, soft drinks, ice-creams and fruit smoothies. It is considered to be an extremely nutritious product and a healthier alternative to tapioca.
I remember one of the contestants on Chopped, Dave, trying in vain to caramelise his nata de coco cubes with a blow torch, to no avail. The winner Matt, made a Poppy Seed Cake with Cucumber Compote, which if memory serves me right had the nata de coco in it.
I wondered about it and was thrilled to finally come up close and personal with it. I actually really like it.
Then while shopping at Kalustyan’s, I came across Nata de Piña, a similar product made with pineapples, instead of coconut water/milk. I currently own a jar. Just so you know.
he day after I arrived in Skip The Info and go directly to The Recipes.
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