13 Things To Do With Blood Oranges
by Cole on January 18 2012
13 Things To Do With Blood Oranges
- Sangrias, baby. (Red wine + Triple Sec + apple juice + blood oranges + lime wedges; spice with sugar, whole cloves, cinnamon sticks.)
- Eat them plain in front of your preferred vampire entertainment.
- Combine with beets for the reddest, healthiest salads. (Option 1: Roasted Beet and Blood Orange Salad with Spicy Greens; Option 2: Baby Beet salad with Blood Oranges, Shaved Fennel and Chevrot Cheese)
- Take your mouth on a honeymoon. (Read: Blood Orange Cheesecake)
- Margaritas, baby. (Blood orange juice + lime juice + Cointreau + silver tequila + salt, sage sprigs, ice)
- Write an absurdly sexual poem using blood oranges as a thinly-veiled metaphor. (Also possible: an absurdly violent poem.)
- Caramelize ‘em. (Dissolve sugar + water over low heat, turn heat up until it begins to caramelize. Pour syrup over finely sliced blood oranges.)
- Salsa! (blood oranges + avocado + red onion + diced chile pepper + lime, salt, olive oil.) I don’t eat seafood, but I hear this is good with shrimp, mahi mahi, tilapia, etc. Just make sure to find sustainable fishies so the seas don’t go empty
- Eat them messily and pretend you are a zombie.
- Braise them. Cut oranges into rounds and braise with rosemary, butter, chicken broth. I hear it makes an excellent side condiment.
- Snack in the Secret Garden. Chop fresh mint and rub it into some sugar; sprinkle over blood orange pieces. (I don’t know why this recipe makes me think Victorian childhood, but it does.)
- Goat cheese crostini with Blood Orange and Black Pepper Marmalade. And then die of pleasure.
- Start a band called “The Blood Oranges.”
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