With the end of grilling season in sight, make every meal count. Here is an easy dessert favorite: grilled fruit with ice cream or sorbet.

The fun begins when you decide which fruit to pair with which flavor of ice cream or sorbet. So stroll through the market aisles and get your creative juices flowing.
 
 
RECIPE: ICE CREAM & GRILLED FRUIT

Ingredients For 4 Servings

Preparation

1. PEEL and slice fruit.

2. COMBINE lime juice and brown sugar in a shallow dish; mix well. Add fruit, stir to coat; cover, and marinate 30 minutes or longer. Meanwhile…

3. PREPARE indoor or outdoor grill by brushing the grill rack with oil and heating. Place fruit on grill rack, and grill 2 to 3 minutes per side.

4. DIVIDE fruit evenly among four plates; top with a scoop of ice cream. Drizzle with chocolate sauce or other garnish, as desired.
 
 

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Clicking through their website, we came across these kitchen tips, two of which were revelations to us. While you may be familiar with many of them, you, too may discover something new and valuable.
CHOCOLATE: Garnish your desserts like a pro: Use a vegetable peeler to make chocolate curls from a chocolate bar. Sprinkle them over hot chocolate and coffee drinks, too.

CHOPSTICKS: Keep wooden chopsticks in your pantry canisters to level off measured items like flour and sugar. (Editor’s Note: We use a knife for this, but welcome ideas for what to do with all the extra chopsticks we accumulate.)

Check below for the easiest way to separate eggs. Photo courtesy Eight Turn Crepe.

GARLIC: To add just a hint of garlic flavor to your dish, rub the pan or pot with a half a clove of garlic before adding any other ingredients. This subtle addition improves any savory dish.

MEAT: Don’t rush to slice into meat or poultry when it’s just off the heat: The juices will flow out with the first knife cut. Instead, allowing it to rest for five minutes (and up to 20 minutes for a whole turkey) will allow the juices to redistribute evenly throughout the meat.

MICROWAVE: To keep sauces, oils and other volatile ingredients from splattering all over the microwave, tent the dish: Place a toothpick in the middle and cover with a moist paper towel. The tented towel will keep the food from splattering.

PRODUCE: Keep raw vegetables fresher for longer by lining the crisper drawers of the fridge with paper towels. They’ll absorb the extra moisture that causes veggies to rot. Change them as needed.

VEGETABLES: A few days ago we suggested ways to get broccoli nay-sayers to eat more broccoli. Comfort and Joy suggests the very easy technique of grilling: Toss the broccoli in a few teaspoons of olive oil with salt and pepper; grill for 5 minutes or until fork-tender. Keep it crisp; don’t overcook. Use the same technique with other veggies.
 
If you have a favorite tip, we’d love to hear it.

Even if you’re not Jewish, you can start this week with a Rosh Hashanah tradition:

Celebrate the Jewish New Year with a traditional snack of apples and honey. The custom ushers in a sweet new year.

We never thought to dip apples and honey until we were invited to our neighbors’ home one Rosh Hashanah 10 years ago. It’s become a favorite treat.

TIP: Instead of placing the honey into a small dish for dipping, as in the photo, think of hollowing out a large apple and placing it, filled with honey, in the center of a plate of apple slices.

We recently discovered that there’s a special prayer to recite before the honey and apples are consumed. THE NIBBLE doesn’t publish religious content, but we were so charmed by the thought of a prayer of thanks for honey and apples that we couldn’t resist:

Honey and apples are a Rosh Hashanah tradition. Photo courtesy Voices-Magazine.Blogspot.com.

Just in time for fall apple-dipping, Whole Foods Market has introduced 365 Everyday Value Mountain Forest Honey, U.S. Grade A in four varieties:

 
Organic honey is made from the nectar of plants in fields that have not been treated with chemical pesticide. The fields must be pesticide-free for 20 miles in every direction of the beehives.

In addition to organic certification, the honeys are also Whole Trade, a certification similar to Fair Trade. It ensures that the products were produced in a way that ensures fair prices to producers, safe and healthy working conditions for farm workers and environmentally-friendly production. (More about Fair Trade and similar certifying organizations).

RECIPES WITH HONEY

Try honey in these delicious recipes from Whole Foods:

 
MORE BUZZ ABOUT HONEY

Here’s everything you need to know about honey: types, storing and using, pairing, trivia, history, and more recipes.

Have a sweet September.