Roasted Persimmons & Balsamic Grapes
Roasted Fuyu persimmons, cucumber slices, balsamic-roasted grapes, camembert, pistachios & preserved lemon I’ll start off this recipe with a short PSA: don’t get the hachiya persimmons. Trust me, we’ve tried. If you don’t want to suffer bizarre fruity cottonmouth, you have to wait until they are insanely ripe and mushy, and if you’re like me, you are never patient enough to wait that long. Plus, they will not hold up to roasting. So just make sure you double check that you’re
Medlar & Roasted Persimmon
Smashed medlar fruit, goat cheese, roasted persimmon & mushroom medley (oyster, shiitake, baby bella), walnuts, kale with lemon juice So, admittedly, before we made this pizza, we had never used (nor heard of) medlar fruit, so it probably merits a bit of explaining. Nicknamed by Chaucer the “open arse” because of its appearance, it was often compared in literature to prostitution, because it is rotten before it is ripe. That is, it has to be “bletted” before it can be eaten,
