Natural Selection: Blood Orange Bars With A Brown Butter Crust

Modern recipes focus on what is fresh, what is local, and what is both beautiful and delicious. Modern foodies no longer take their ingredients hidden or masked, but prefer to let ingredients like fresh produce shine for themselves. One blog we love who really gets this modern way of cooking right is husband and wife duo, Todd Porter and Diane Cu, the "White on Rice Couple." Todd and Diane, with their backgrounds as pro food stylists and photographers, are perfecting the fresh and local recipe trend. In their new cookbook Bountiful, they follow the innate knowledge of nature, picking each individual ingredient for its dimensionality and structure. Each recipe invites us to taste food in a whole new way. Reading Bountiful is an active experience, full of produce-picking and thoughtful perspectives that make us look twice at what's for dinner. These seasonal blood orange bars are the perfect recipe for mid-October. Todd and Diane's recipe maintains the vibrancy of the fruit's color while building upon the foundation of a classic dessert. The sweet yet tart flavor of the orange plays off the rich quality of the crust, both echoing and amplifying one another. As delicious as they are beautiful, these bars deserve to be your centerpiece dessert this fall! Here's more from the couple on how to make these gorgeous treats... The recipe is enough to make the bars in a quarter-sheet pan, however, we know for most, blood oranges can be a bit expensive, so a reduced recipe may be a better option. The recipe works perfectly if you halve it and make the bars in a four-by fourteen-inch tart pan (the size used in the photos), or use individual three- or four-inch tart pans. Or you can always substitute in some tangerine juice for the blood orange juice. The color will pale more toward the orange side, but it will still be delicious - promise. Also, make sure to taste the sweetness of the curd as you are making it. Blood oranges can vary quite a bit on their sweetness, so adjust the sugar quantities to your desired taste. Enjoy!



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