Surprise... surprise...

Shopping at the market is always a little surprising. You never know what kind of exotic fruits (I'm talking about strawberries, grapes, peaches or plums) they sell. Today I got ahold of some peaches.

What do pineapple, peach and starfruit have in common?

 

They end as jam in a jar. 

And tomorrow morning we'll have fresh French Baguette and this jam.

danish pastry with cherries

In Germany you can buy little danish pastries in every bakery. Mostly they are stuffed with fruits, pudding or marzipan.

The special thing with these pastries is the dough. Between the single sheets of the yeast-dough are several layers of pure butter. It's a particular technique how to prepare the dough.
The main problem here is that it is way to warm. So while preparing I had to hurry up and put the dough several times in the fridge to cool it.
When the dough is baking it rises high and it's like puff pastry.

I stuffed the pastries with cherries and to give them a special taste I added a little cherry brandy.











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Plum Pie with Streusel

For some German recipes it's inevitable to have some sourly tasting fruits.

To find them somewhere is really a big challange.

I was so glad when I got some little plums at FTC. One portion I used for the mango jam and the other portion was just enough to bake a plum-pie with streusel (I was surprised to learn that this word is used in the English language as well).

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Lychee (Litschi)

I got fresh lychees today at the market.

While I tried to figure out, what I could do with them... Mr. Fab eat most of theese little delicous fruits.

So I have enough time to check the internet for recipes until I get some new lychees.

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Mango Meringue Pie

I'm always glad when I find a recipe where I can use local ingredients.

Today I baked a Mango Meringue Pie. It's incredible how much better the mangos in Belize taste.

I knew the taste of mangos I bought in Germany - but you can't compare this to the fruits you can get here.

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Papaya - the natural meat tenderizer

The first trees we planted on our property were papaya trees.

The papaya fruit is rich in an enzyme called papain which is useful in tenderizing meat. It's perfect when you wrap the rare meat in freshly cut leaves. If you can't get them, you can also cut the fruit into little stripes and use them instead of the leaf.

tenderloin wrapped in papaya leaves

This evening I made pork tenderloin wrapped with bacon. I served it with basmati rice and fresh mushrooms.





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fruit tarte

This is something typical German.

A light biscuit cake base with fruits on top.

Because my original baking pan is still hidden somewhere in the depth of our container, I used a springform pan and doubled the amount of dough. After baking the cake base I scooped it out in the middle and put the fruits on top.