My niece Lindsey taught me how to make this dip. She saw all the ingredients for it around my kitchen: cannellini beans, garlic, olive oil, and a basket of Meyer lemons.
Category tropical fruit
Honeybell Collard Salad
Wintertime is citrus time, and I’m getting my fix every day. I love devouring oranges and grapefruit over the sink, letting the juice drip down my elbows.
Cinnamon Starfruit Tart
Let’s end 2016 on a sweet note.
Pfeffernüsse
I loved baking Christmas cookies with my grandma every year. I don’t know where the other kids were, probably climbing trees or catching lizards, but it was always just grandma and me.
Mom’s Fruit Salad
Indian River citrus is famously good.
Star Fruit Chips
My Aunt Bernie had a carambola tree by her front door and it was always loaded with fruit. She’d slice up the pretty stars on a glass plate for all of us kids.
Meyer Lemon Pound Cake
“Life handed him a lemon, As Life sometimes will do. His friends looked on in pity, Assuming he was through. They came upon him later, Reclining in the shade In calm contentment, drinking A glass of lemonade.” -The Optimist, Clarence Edwin Flynn
Sea Grape Jam + Margaritas!
Sea grapes grow in coastal areas from south to central Florida. They’re edible, although tart with a big seed. The key is to simmer and strain them for syrups and jams.