02 Wed Aug 2017
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A typical summer’s evening
There is nothing better, on a cool and cloudy, wet and windy evening in August, than a fruit salad.
Strawberries,
cherries,
raspberries
and blackberries.
What would you prefer –
A little sugar, perhaps?
Maybe some cream or creme fraiche? Or ice-cream?
Help yourself!
The taste of summer.
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Haha! I would if I could!
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I love a good fruit salad, especially if I add a few nuts to it also. Yours looks very good, I think that I would choose cream for mine.
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Thank-you, Jerry! I love it with cream too!
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I could use some of that fruit right now, looks so great! 🙂
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Thank-you, HJ! 🙂
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Oh yes! Could you just pass the crème fraîche please? That looks a lovely mid-summer salad.
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Thank-you, Margaret!
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I’m on my way to yours…. ❤ xXXx ❤
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I’ll put the kettle on! 😀 ❤ xXXx ❤
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Can’t beat a good fruit salad, Clare; and yours looks fab! When I was a little younger, the guy who owned the corner shop nearby had just returned from visiting family in Jamaica and gave me a small bottle of white rum. Well, it was closer to yellow, about 90% alcohol and you could strip doors with it. A few capfuls in a fruit salad were just perfect!
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Thank-you Mike!
Haha! Your fruit salad sounds good! I remember getting more than a little merry on a school trip to Germany. We were invited to a party and there were peaches marinated in some alcoholic substance or other and glasses of wine for us all. A night to remember! 😮
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Well, I guess if you can remember it, it can’t have been too bad…
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It looks excellent, though it’s perhaps a trifle unfair on those of us who are sitting miles away feeling peckish. 🙂
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It would have been a trifle unfair if it had custard on top and jelly underneath?
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Hehe!
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Mmmmm… 🙂
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Thank-you, Simon. How thoughtless of me 😉
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Indeed. 🙂
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Delicious. A squeeze of lemon and a little icing sugar with mine, please.
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Oooh! That sounds wonderful!
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Mandy, that sounds perfect, I’d go for the same, please, if I may. ❤ 🙂 ❤
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I agree, it sounds luscious!
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🙂 yummyyummyyumm.
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😀
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Oh, yum! I like bowls of blueberries with almond milk and a bit of maple syrup.
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Gorgeous! And no dairy products either!
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Oh, my mouth is watering! Wish I could join you.
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I wish you could too!
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Ahh the fabulous fruits of summer!
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Yes indeed! 🙂
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Clare, this looks delicious and I love the bowl as well – a bright colourful combination with your fruit salad!
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Thank-you, Annika!
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You made my mouth water!
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Thank-you, Susan!
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It all sounds delicious but I’m partial to whipped cream.
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Oh yes!
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I’ll have the lot please…..and seconds…..I am a fruitoholic.
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Haha!
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Oh my! I’m drooling over here, Clare! With temps in the 90’s and oppressive humidity, that’s perfection. And the blackberries…they’re huge! Enjoy! ❤
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Thank-you Jill! Our temps are barely getting to 68/70 now and we are having lots of wind and rain. More like autumn really 😦 Cultivated blackberries are huge and I love them! They are much nicer than the wild blackberries from the bramble bushes which have lots of seeds in them.
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When it comes to blackberries…the bigger the better. 🙂 Enjoy! ❤
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🙂 ❤
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Nothing like the fruits of summer! I love them served plain, just as they are. 🙂
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Thank-you Lavinia! I love them just as they are, too.
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Wow, Clare! I am with Jill! I’m drooling for the blackberries (and all the rest!) I would love to have mine with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, please. I’ll be right over. 😉
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You’ll be very welcome, Patsy!
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Oh, that’s perfect! I think I’d like stirred custard on mine . . .
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I would not have thought of putting custard on fresh summer fruit! I investigated and found that it is a popular topping in the States. Something I never knew! We usually put custard (usually warm/hot though I do love cold custard) on pies, puddings and tarts. I also love custard tart – a sweet shortcrust pastry filled with a good egg custard, sprinkled with nutmeg and left to set. Heaven!
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YUM!
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Definitely yum! Thank-you Sheryl. Are you settling into your new home okay? I have been thinking of you xx
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Thank you, you’re so very sweet! I’m still unpacking and organizing, but the move went fairly well and it’s sort of beginning to feel like home. 🙂
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I’m glad 🙂
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That looks delicious Clare!
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Thank-you Andrea. It was!
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What delicious looking berries. You made my mouth water. I myself would like a small touch of sugar sprinkled over and left for an hour to bring out the juices. Then a nice dab of unsweetened fresh whipped cream. I can almost taste it! 🙂 I’m so glad you got to enjoy it!
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I love them like this too!
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Yummy 👅
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So delicious! It’s been a good season for berries hasn’t it 🙂 It’s a wonderful time for fruit salad with berries, it still seems strange to me though to have berries available in supermarkets all year round, I don’t think they ever taste as good as they have now, lol
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Thank-you, Cat. Yes, berries have been gorgeous this summer! I try not to eat them out of season because they really don’t taste as good.
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This is so healthy and flavoursome…great post💕
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Thank-you very much!
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Love those fruit salads…. and such a good effect, visually speaking, as you scroll down the page… All red fruits: my favorite ones, by the way.
Dear Clare, September has just started and I hope it is a good month for you (Isn´t it unbelievable that we are already in September, by the way?). Time passes by so quickly right!?.- Sending much love & best wishes, across the miles. 😉 ❤
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Thank-you very much dear Aquileana! Yes, this year has gone by very quickly! I hope you have a happy springtime with lots of nice weather ❤
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I suddenly feel very hungry! Nice post!
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Thank-you, Cynthia!
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I could utilize some of that organic product at the present time, looks so incredible! 🙂
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Thank-you very much for your kind response!
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Thank-you!
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Oi…so good!! fruit salad, very nice with your way! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank-you very much! 🙂
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