Subject: Fruit Salad with Orange Mayonnaise
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 06:33:09 EST
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F O O D F U N N Y
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Reader Ellen Denissen writes "Here's a real turkey of a food funny..."
One Friday evening in January, my husband came home from work and told
me that he had invited several work friends to bring their families
over for a post-holiday dinner that Saturday evening. I set him to
cleaning the oven while I cleaned house. Bright and early the next
morning, I cleaned and stuffed a turkey, patted it with butter and
placed it in the oven. When I came back in 30 minutes to check it,
the butter hadn't even melted. I placed an oven thermometer on the
shelf and checked back in another five minutes, and my oven was
registering only about 125 degrees! On further investigation, I
discovered the bottom element was not working. So... I cranked the
knob until it read 650 and the thermometer registered a more
reasonable 350, covered the top of bird in multiple layers of aluminum
foil, made a repair appointment for the next morning, and called my
husband at work and gave him a piece of my mind for breaking the oven.
I spent the rest of the afternoon carefully trying to keep the top
half of the turkey from incinerating itself while the bottom half
cooked. At 3 PM, my husband came home from work, surveyed the
situation, and calmly asked, "Gee hon, wouldn't it cook better on
"BAKE" than on "BROIL"?"
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T O D A Y ' S R E C I P E
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Here is a fresh and bright fruit salad from one of my favorite
cookbooks. You might want to try using the orange mayonnaise in
other dishes, such as tuna and pasta salads.
As with all the recipes this week, this is adapted from "All Around
the World Cookbook" by Sheila Lukins, Workman Publishing Company,
1994. It is available from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563052377/worldwiderecipes
Fruit Salad with Orange Mayonnaise
2 bananas, peeled and sliced
1 Granny Smith or other tart apple, cored and chopped
1 ripe pear, cored and chopped
1 cups (250 ml) diced pineapple
1 cup (250 ml) seedless grapes
2 ribs celery, chopped
1/2 cup (125 ml) coarsely chopped almonds, walnuts, or pecans
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 cup (250 ml) orange mayonnaise (recipe below)
Combine all ingredients and toss well to combine. Serve chilled.
Serves 6 to 8.
Orange Mayonnaise
1 cup (250 ml) fresh orange juice
1/2 cup (125 ml) mayonnaise
1/2 cup (125 ml) sour cream
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
Bring the orange juice to a boil in a small saucepan over moderate
heat. Reduce the heat and simmer uncovered until the juice is reduced
to about 2 tablespoons of thick syrup. Combine with the remaining
ingredients and mix well. Makes 1 cup (250 ml).
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