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The other night Hubster and I stopped by a grocery store that we don’t normally get to. I was amazed when I spotted a few fresh star fruit, since I haven’t be able to find them in this area since I moved here. I ran over to them and started squeezing them to check their firmness, Hubster looked completely confused and asked what the are. After I replied, the 5-year-old boy in him came out. “They can’t ever taste good if I’ve never seen them in the grocery store before. That’s the ugliest fruit I’ve even seen, they don’t even look good.” I then held up an Ugli fruit for him to view… conversation was derailed.
This day, I did something simplistic and used them in a salad. Two variations, a light vegetarian salad for me and a non-vegetarian entrée salad for him. His final verdict on the fruit? Tastes okay, like a fruit. 🙂 I think star fruit tastes like a light citrusy pear.
Vegetarian & Vegan Version
Spinach, Start Fruit & Pistachio Salad Ingredients:
1 star fruit (sliced), sliced red pepper, pistachios, baby spinach leaves, sesame ginger dressing
Spinach, Star Fruit & Pistachio Salad Directions:
Arrange mixed greens on plate and top with chicken, star fruit, peppers and pistachios. Drizzle with dressing.
Spinach, Star Fruit & Pistachio Side Salad
Meat Eaters Entrée Salad Variation
Ingredients:
1 Spinach, Star fruit and Pistachio salad from above, 1 chicken breast, teriyaki sauce, bleu cheese crumbles, raspberry vinaigrette dressing (in place of sesame ginger dressing)
Directions:
Marinate chicken in teriyaki breast and grill. Slice chicken and arrange on salad. Sprinkle with bleu cheese and drizzle with dressing.
Chicken, Spinach, Star Fruit & Pistachio Entrée Salad
I prefer this with sesame ginger dressing, Hubster enjoys his was raspberry vinaigrette, you combo might be different…
What recipe do you make two different variations, for you and your spouse/partner?
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That is beautiful. Are the starfruit seeds edible?
Thanks. We eat them, they just add a lil crunch!
I’ve never had starfruit – I’ll have to try them!
As for your question – I don’t make 2 versions of anything. My husband eats what I make, or else makes his own. 🙂
Let me know how you like them. Haha, but some variations are really simple…
Yes, some variations *are* simple. In fact, I just requested a book from the library on this topic: “Double Take: One Fabulous Recipe, Two Finished Dishes, Feeding Vegetarians and Omnivores Together” by Rathbun & Holt. It looks interesting…
That sounds like it would be a great book for us!
Star fruit – you have have made them look so starry! Loved your slightly tongue-in-cheek approach to domesticity.
My partner has an aversion to garlic – one of my favourite foods for taste and immune-boosting. So, once I made a hummus without garlic using turmeric for flavour instead. But it felt wrong!
I hate cooking two meals. I did it too long for my children. I need high-fibre fresh healthiness and they – poor innocents in the grip of multi-billion marketing – longed for white bread and junk food.
Thank you!
Hummus without garlic just sounds wrong.
My mother never cooked two meals for us, she always had us eating healthy foods… kids at school told me my 12 grain bread was just dirty bread… haha. My mother insisted still and here we are as (semi-)grown ups, eating the healthy stuff we tried to avoid then.
My mom never cooked multiple meals, either. We were given the choice to either eat what she made, or eat a peanut butter sandwich, or not to eat anything. I learned to eat what was made, with *rare* exception choosing the PB sandwich. (Liver & onions = PB choice – which Mom understood and accepted.) 🙂
I remember once eating liver & onions… I was very young and cut it into small pieces, which I swallowed whole with the aid of my milk (I didn’t want to taste it)! I ended up getting really sick and it was shortly after that we all went meatless!
Um, yeah – that would probably do it. 🙂 Funny!
I don’t think I’ve ever had starfruit before… so pretty!
Pretty much anything with cheese is different. I make my portion with soy cheese and use regular on his. 🙂
Yeah… it isn’t too difficult with some recipes… but sometimes it’s just a pain…
gourmet salad! fantastic!
I loved it! Simple and sweet!
love your blog! that looks fantastic! so creative!!!
Thank you & welcome!!!
Star fruit? Spinach? Looks super healthy!!!!
Thanks!
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