What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? A Cut Above: Cotton Candy Grapes & Cheese! If you haven’t tried these tasty hybrid grapes recently, you may have to take a trip to the wild side. Their nostalgic flavor resembles the vanilla-caramel addiction to cotton candy memories of childhood county fairs. Who doesn’t yearn for that?!?! The pop of spun sugar makes them chewy, sweet, and run-down-your-chin juicy. Sounds like the perfect reward for walking 3 miles every morning. You can come up with your own justification, I’m sure.
COTTON CANDY GRAPES & CHEESE
Ingredients:
1 pound cotton candy grapes, seedless
4 ounces bleu cheese wedge
1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
Instructions:
Bring a wedge of bleu cheese to room temperature. Wash a bunch of cotton candy seedless grapes; pat dry. Arrange the bleu cheese, green grapes, and chopped walnuts on a cutting board. Serve with artisan bread toast points or stone-ground crackers. Serve.
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Thank you, Gail, for the lovely snack, my staple food!
Joanna
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It’s a real treat for me as well, Joanna. 🍃🍇🧀
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I know, Gail, you like all the food you write about.
Joanna
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Hahaha. 🤣 Very true, Joanna. 🍒🍃
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I am only surprised that you stay so slim!
Joanna
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My secret? I walk 2-3 miles every day. 👣
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Thank you, Gil, it is obviously working!
Joanna
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You’re sweet. 🌷
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Thank you, Gail, likewise!
Joanna
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Interesting combination. Don’t know cotton candy grapes in Australia.
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Do you have moon grapes? They are very good if you get the chance to try them.
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No, but now you’ve got my curiosity up. I’m going to keep my eyes peeled. 👀🍃🍇
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They have a short season, but when I see them, I grab them up!
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Give it time – they’re a very new variety.
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I “Googled” their image. I’d like to try them! 😍
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It’s a special treat, that’s for sure. 🧡🧀
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Have never seen moon grapes.
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Sounds like an adventure…….
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I had cotton candy grapes a few months ago. I didn’t notice much of a flavor difference, but they were just the right amount of sweet. I imagine they’re amazing with blue cheese!!
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Oh, yesssss. Bleu cheese is phenomenal. 🩵🧀💙
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I’ve had these grapes and they do have a slight taste of cotton candy which I assumed meant they had a higher sugar content perhaps? They were good.
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Probably so. Did you know cotton candy was invented by a dentist?!?! 😜
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Of course! Good way to keep the customers coming.
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That’s what I thought!
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I found these grapes in Washington state a few years ago and loved them!
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Aren’t they addictive?!?! 😜🍃🍇
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They were amazing – how is it possible? One taste 6 years ago and I can’t forget. 🙂
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Debra! Amirite?!?! Now I look everywhere I go to find them as well. 👀🍃
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Never had ’em!
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If you see them, buy them. They are worth it. 🍃🍇
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Beautiful share
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My pleasure. 🌺🌴
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Love ❤️
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It works every time. 😍🍃
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I have not seen cotton candy seedless grapes – I’m on the hunt!
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I hope you find them. They are worth searching for. 🍃🍇🧀
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