There are marzipan fruits and handmade truffles chockablock with jewel-toned pâts de fruit; crown-shaped canelles flecked with vanilla bean; spicy Dutch speculaas and sugar-crusted tea pretzels.
Still, my favorite is apple sorbet, the icy essence of fall fruit crowned with a halo of crisped apple rings.
The fruit crowning a pineapple-black currant tart was glossy, sweet and tangy; a chocolate truffle tort with wild berries was so intense it stopped conversation.
His new cookbook, "D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients," features a striking image of a signature dish, "ants and pineapple": a pale-yellow cube of fruit crowned by a single saúva ant.
The 5-m cut-off was chosen because whole, unhandled fruits frequently bounced or rolled ≤5 m from the edge of the parent crown, suggesting that handled fruits found in the same range could have been dropped from within the fruiting crown.
We loved the "goin' bananas" (a super banana split with caramelized fruit and homemade ice cream); the berry Napoleon, which starred fresh berries and a lemon-touched old-fashioned shortcake; and the Bongo Bay sauté of warm tropical fruits crowned with sour-cream ice cream and roasted macadamia mascarpone.
According to Souza and Morim [ 8], the species N. obscura has globoses fruits crowned by the calyx tube with black pericarp when ripe.
This species is easily identified by the green cylindrical galls on the apical/axial bud leaf [ 20] and the globoses fruits crowned by the calyx tube [ 8].
Fruit: +- columnar to obovoid, generally 10-ribbed, glabrous; pappus 0 or fruit wall crown-like at fruit tip.
The base of the fruit is crowned with a pretty calyx.
Homemade desserts, notches above the norm, also show Dino's mettle: warm apple strudel a la mode, creamy tiramisu and filled-to-order individual fruit tarts crowned with fresh berries.
