Melon, Orange and Red Grape Salad

Two different colours of melon, with red grapes and orange segments.  Soused in some white wine and some Grenadine.

Allow to stand in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Served with a Greek style yoghurt, and a dusting of nutmeg. 

Plum Fruit Salad with Red and Green Seedless Grapes

Chopped plums with halved red and green grapes, served with cream. About seven minutes preparation time.

Put the salad in the fridge for forty-five minutes before serving.

You can add a little cinnamon or nutmeg to this dish.

Blueberry, Grape and Mango Fruit Salad

Mango and melon chunks, with seedless red  or green grapes, plus two handfuls of blueberries. Add to the dish.

Add eight dessert spoonfuls of double cream to the serving bowl (whipped or unwhipped according to preference), and a dessert spoonful of authentic maple syrup.

Simple, and completely delicious!

An alternative to the maple syrup is pomegranate molasses, if you have that to hand in your cupboard. A quite different flavour, but equally delicious with fruit and cream!

Grape Salad

A simple fruit salad, made with halved black (or red) grapes and green grapes (both seedless).

Added single cream, and some ground mace.

That's it. Delicious! Needs nothng more.

Fruit Salad with Spiced Yoghurt

A Fruit salad containing apple, seeded orange, and melon pieces, plus red seedless grapes, dressed in three dessert spoonfuls of yoghurt (or yoghurt made with soya, which is a pretty good substitute). The Yoghurt was flavoured with a quarter teaspoonful each of mixed spice and ground mace.

Mix the yoghurt and the spices in a small bowl and decant into the serving bowl. Lay the fruit pieces on top, and give the fruit a couple of swirls before serving.

Raspberry and Red Grape Fruit Salad

A very simple salad. Raspberries from Morocco, with red seedless grapes, soused in a little grenadine, and topped with single cream. Mix the raspberries and grapes together in the grenadine, and allow to stand for twenty minutes. Stir the fruit again, and decant to a serving bowl. Add the cream. Delicious! 

Raspberry and Red Grape Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad with Seedless Red Grapes

A classic fruit salad of orange, melon, mango, red grape, and apple. Served with a dressing made with creamy Jersey milk mixed with pomegranate molasses (about 50-50), seasoned with nutmeg and mace. Made in a trice. 

Fruit Salad with Seedless Red Grapes

Red Grape, Honey, and Pecan Salad

Food of the Gods. Halved red grapes, sliced nectarine, half an apple, finely sliced, diced dates, pecan nuts, a dash each of mixed spice and cinnamon, and a dash of white pepper.

Mix into the fruit a dessert spoonful of soft honey, and allow to stand for 10 to 15 minutes. Add the pecan nuts, and stir in Greek yoghurt. Serve.

Seeing this recipe, a friend said: 'Greek yoghurt is fabulous, and even more so if you use Greek honey... [it has] quite a distinctive, herby flavour...' Which is true. Greek honey is worth trying with this recipe.

Red Grape, Honey, and Pecan Salad