Best Fruit Now

Fruit Buying Guide – September 2010

September’s Fruit Buying Guide offers many helpful tips on selecting the Best Fruit at the market NOW! Do you know what “Natural” Thompsons are? Well you will want to look out for those babies. Black Mission Figs, buy ‘em leaky, yes oozing honey and a recipe for baking them Wrapped in Proscuitto and Stuffed with Goat Cheese – Easy and Delicious from Chef Melissa. Soon to be finished Mixed Melons. Do not miss out and learn how to find the best melons, favorites now are Sharlyn, Canari, Cranshaw, and Orange Flesh Honeydews- it’s now or never with these guys!

Fruit Buying Guide – July 2010

This month is the clearly the best overall quality month for fruit in years! Really, I mean that, of the last 30 months I have written the Fruit Buying Guide THIS is number 1! Highlights for July’s Fruit Buying Guide are that Peaches are sweet and juicy, Plums are fantastic, and all the Berries are perfecto! Watch Chef Melissa and Chef Theo whip up a couple of very timely recipes; Amaretto Peach Parfait and Mixed Berry Crostada! Make a point of enjoying this month as the quality and values are awesome!

Mixed Berry Crostata

Source: Country Living Magazine, Date unknown; Modified by Chef Melissa, A la Maison Personal Chef Service

This recipe is part of my personal collection that I accumulated long before starting A la Maison Personal Chef Service. I copied it out of Country Living Magazine years ago and have made it many times since substituting [...]

Fruit Buying Guide – July 2009

Check out July’s Fruit Buying Guide and you will learn of a once in a decade deal on a real favorite, CHERRIES! Other fruits noted as timely and delicious are California nectarines, and most professional melon experts favorite melon, the Crenshaw! Be careful to avoid old plums, pluots and apricots. And you’ll learn to keep an eye out for the rare and delicious MANGO NECTARINE.