Cooking with Grapes

These amazing recipes include pan-seared black cod with grape salsa and a watercress salad with verjus vinaigrette.

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Rosemary Flatbread with Blue Cheese, Grapes and Honey

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This crusty flatbread studded with creamy crumbled blue cheese and sweet table grapes is absolutely delicious.

Appetizer Recipes

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Pickled Grapes with Walnuts

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Milk that dairy animals produce after months of eating grass imparts extraordinary flavor to late-summer cheeses, which are great with store-bought or homemade condiments.

Cocktail Party Recipes

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Red Wine-Braised Beef

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Use the beef flatiron (or top blade) steak from the shoulder because it stays tender and flavorful after long braising.

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Pan-Seared Black Cod with Grape Salsa

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Ben Towill hand-crushes grapes for this fresh salsa, but pureeing some of them in a food processor works equally well. Grapes may seem like an unlikely partner for fish, but they're very good with silky black cod fillets.

Fast Fish Recipes

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White Gazpacho

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This refreshing gazpacho—made with apples, grapes, almonds and cucumber—is a perfect balance of sweet and tangy.

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Harvest Cake with Grapes and Sangiovese Syrup

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Sheamus Feeley loves to bake this moist cake at harvest time using Long Meadow's own Sangiovese grapes and grape juice, but any seedless red table grapes and unsweetened grape juice will work.

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Roast Squab with Bacon and Grapes

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An enticing main course that's salty, sweet, crispy and juicy all at the same time.

Irresistible Bacon Recipes

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Celery, Grilled Grape and Mushroom Salad

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"Celery is a vegetable people either love or hate, and we try to get people to love all their vegetables," says chef Amanda Cohen of New York City's Dirt Candy. She sets off celery's bitterness and crunch with meaty oyster mushrooms and grapes that have been grilled until almost bursting.

Green Salad Recipes

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Hazelnut Profiteroles with Blue Cheese and Grapes

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Shawn McClain serves some form of these savory cream puffs with drinks at both of his Chicago restaurants. He pokes a hole in the sides of the puffs when they come out of the oven to release the steam, then fills them with a creamy mixture of blue cheese and mascarpone.

Fast Hors d'Oeuvres

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Watercress Salad with Verjus Vinaigrette

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At Benu, chef Corey Lee fries almonds and peels grapes for his compelling salad. At home, use roasted marcona almonds and unpeeled green grapes.

Delicious Green Salads

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Pan-Seared Black Sea Bass with Endives and Grapes

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For the FourCoursemen dinners (as well as his restaurant, Farm 255), chef Matt Palmerlee loves to use sustainable seafood like the line-caught sea bass here. He sometimes makes the dish with Muscadine grapes, a sweeter, more complex fruit from the American South.