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By Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, About.com Guide to Home Cooking since 1996

Recipes Index

Chocolate-Dipped Grand Marnier Strawberries Recipe
Truly decadent chocolate-dipped strawberries are stepped up a notch with the injection of Grand Marnier. Easy to make and impressive.

Homemade Coconut Cream Recipe
Do not confuse coconut milk with coconut cream. It is easy to make your own coconut cream at home.

Pineapple Grape Coleslaw Recipe
Try this delicious coleslaw sweetened with pineapple and grapes for a change.

Wine Poached Fruits Recipe
Apple, pear, apricot, cherries, and figs are poached in a wine sauce spiced with vanilla and cinnamon, served over ice cream.

Deep-Fried Watermelon Recipe
Watermelon is dipped into a light batter, fried, and topped with powdered sugar for a unique dessert or snack.

Frozen Flower Bowl with Fruit Salad Recipe
Flowers are frozen into bowl shapes then filled with fruit salad for a beautiful presentation. Orange dressing makes a wonderful topper for any variety of fruit salad.

Apple Butter Recipe
Apple butter contains no butter, much like buttermilk. It is a spiced spread used like butter, but made from apples.

Limes Filled with Coconut Recipe
Lime rinds are candied and filled with sweetened coconut.

Sweet Watermelon Ice Recipe
This Native American favorite can be made with or without an ice cream maker.

Passover Chremslach (Fruit & Nut Fritters) Recipe
These tasty fried fruit fritters contain currants, almonds, and apricots.

Candied Grapefruit Pith Recipe
Instead of throwing away grapefruit pith, candy it and use as a spread.

Phoebe Snow's Mashed Maple Syrup Apples Recipe
This homestyle apple dessert is mixed with walnuts and cinnamon and is sweetened with maple syrup.

Peaches Baked in Amaretto Recipe
Fresh peaches stuffed with almond macaroons and amaretto make a quick and elegant dessert.

Cranberries Amaretto Recipe
This chunky cranberry sauce is flavored with amaretto liqueur and orange marmalade.

Baked Figs With Honey Ice Cream Recipe
Homemade honey ice cream is topped with baked figs for a fabulous dessert.

Fresh Figs and Raspberries With Mint-Infused Ganache Recipe
Fresh figs and raspberries are topped with an easy chocolate mint sauce and almonds.

Grilled Figs With Thyme, Honey and Gorgonzola Toasts Recipe
Honey and thyme marry beautifully with figs atop Gorgonzola toasts.

Baked Figs with Honey and Whiskey Recipe
Baked figs are sweetened with honey, kicked up with Scotch whiskey, and topped with toasted hazelnuts.

Gourmet Glazed Figs Recipe
Figs simmered with cloves and brandy and stuffed with almonds. Great with turkey, baked chicken, beef, pork or ham.

Gingered Figs Recipe
Figs cooked in molasses and ginger are great with ham, pork, chicken, steak, or roast beef.

Figs Poached in White Wine and Fresh Thyme Recipe
Figs are cooked in honey and wine boosted with thyme and peppercorns.

Fig Sugarplums Recipe
Dried figs are stuffed with a variety of sweet fillings. Great for an appetizer or dessert tray at parties.

Candied Figs, Apricots or Tomatoes Recipe
This is a great way to preserve fruits, especially figs, apricots, and tomatoes.

Fig Apple Compote Recipe
Apples and figs are baked with a spiced syrup for an easy fruit dessert.

Baked Stuffed Papayas Recipe
This unusual recipe features papayas with a stuffing of ground beef, tomatoes, garlic, onions, and Parmesan cheese.

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