LCBO Food & Drink Summer 2018

Spiced Plum Salad (recipe on page 152) For just a few weeks each year, it seems there’s an endless variety of the most gorgeous plums. Pick your favourite or use a variety. Red Fruit Salad with Sparkling Wine (recipe on page 153) The best berries are intoxicatingly fragrant. Play it up with a bit of elder­ flower cordial, vanilla, and sparkling Moscato.

Fruit salads Warm weather brings the sweetest local fruit. Don’t get in the way too much—dress your fruit salads simply. Think “gilding the lily,” not “reinventing the wheel,” and you’re halfway there. Buy local, in season, and let your salads shine.

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