Late Summer Entertaining With A Tropical Flair!

Editor, Michele Rosenthal

Photo & Styling by Paris House

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We are savoring every day of Summer! This weeks Sunday Guides is all about having fun and enjoying delicious food with your favorite people!

Here are our Tips & Recipes to help you put together a fun effortless tropical themed party!!!

Menu: recipes below

Jamaican Pork Tenderloin With Sauce Caribe (adapted from southern living)

We have been making this DELICIOUS and EASY recipe for 21 years & EVERYONE loves it! If you are in the Chester NJ area we highly recommend Chester Meat Market. I have been shopping there for decades. It’s outstanding.

coconut mint iced tea add rum if you like
Dessert - too hot to bake?!!! or simply don’t feel like spending all day in the kitchen!!! No worries get a dessert delivery straight to your door!!! We love Mini upside down pineapple cakes that will pair beautifully with our Tropical Dinner Menu!!! We linked them for you! Fun tip!!! Add a sparkler to the top of each mini cake and WOW your guests (please use EXTREME caution around guests & children and make sure to put out flame in water before disposing)
Decorate table with palm leaves and a few grocery store orchids! Scatter seashells down the center of table. No time to decorate or arrange flowers!? Call us!!! We deliver.
Don’t have a pool?!!! No worries!!! get a little kiddie pool & a slippery slide!!! Your guests will have so much fun & make lifelong memories. Try Walmart, Target, Amazon
Don’t forget a fun playlist!!!

Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cakes

Recipes:

Our Grilled pork tenderloin topped with the most delicious red current Caribe Sauce. It’s amazing!

Jamaican Pork Tenderloin With Sauce Caribe. (Our pork tenderloin is from Chester Meats, Chester NJ.)

Recipe Adapted from southern living 2002 issue!!

Ingredients:

1 1/2 to 2 pounds PORK Tenderloin (our pork tenderloin are from Chester Meats!)
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 & 1/2 tablespoons McCORMICK Gourmet Collection Jamaican Jerk Seasoning (or substitute with your favorite brand)
1/2 cup red currant jelly
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons dark rum or orange juice (I use orange juice)
Garnishes: chopped honey-roasted USA PEANUTS, tropical pesticide free edible flowers
Long-grain and wild rice (optional)

Directions:

Preheat Grill

Spoon the 3 tablespoons of orange juice over the tenderloins. Sprinkle 1 & 1/2 tablespoons Jamaican seasoning over the top.

Grill pork until cooked through, do not burn

While pork is grilling make the sauce.

Add these ingredients to sauce pan:

1/2 cup red currant jelly

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons dark rum or orange juice (I use orange juice)

Heat until combined and sauce is thinned a bit

Cover pork & let rest for 5-10 minutes

Slice and place on serving platter. Spoon sauce over, sprinkle with honey roasted peanuts. Garnish.

Serve warm!

Coconut-Mint Iced Tea

Of course, if you're in the mood for a tropical cocktail, add a splash of rum.

8 SERVINGS

2 cups fresh mint leaves (from 2 large bunches)

8 cups double-strength fresh-brewed tropical blend iced tea (such as original blend Paradise brand)

1 cup (or more) coconut syrup*

5 tablespoons (or more) fresh lemon juice

Ice cubes

Place mint leaves in large pitcher. Crush mint with muddler or wooden spoon.

Add hot tea, 1 cup coconut syrup, and 5 tablespoons lemon juice. Add more coconut syrup by tablespoonfuls and lemon juice by teaspoonfuls, if desired.

Cool completely. Fill glasses with ice, pour tea over, and serve.

*Available at specialty foods stores.

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Garden photographed at Pillar and Post, Niagara On The Lake, Canada

Winter is a wonderful time to begin dreaming up and planning a new garden. It is also a wonderful time to plan any updates to an existing garden. We recommend keeping a garden journal to docoument all of your ideas, dreams, plans and sketches. In this article we will share our decades long experience creating beautiful rose gardens. We would also like to thank our sponsors for being a part of this Sunday Guides issue!

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

We are often asked for tips on caring for, planting, and designing a rose garden. We have been growing roses for 30 years at our historic home in zone 6a Northeast New Jersey.

The Paris House Garden

There truly isn’t anything like a beautiful rose. Their sharp thorns are perhaps indicative of what’s to come. Like their thorns, they can torture you a bit with how much care goes into them. Don’t let that discourage you! Gardeners are all too aware these beauties are high maintenance. Yet with all things we love & find fulfilling it is enjoyable & worth the effort. Once you successfully grow roses in your home garden you will be rewarded with their beauty & scent.

Some roses have the most enchanting scent, perfumed fragrance floating through the garden. Others bloom repeatedly if pruned regularly.

Then there are the ones that show up for a short time leaving us speechless with their beauty and then, just like that they are gone until next year. Gardeners can feel “both mortal and immortal in their garden” I can understand that sentiment, as the garden needs us as much as we need the garden.

The Paris House Garden

Some favorites Rose are:

Constance Spry by David Austin Roses, Eden, New Dawn, Gertrude Jekyll, Zephrine Drouhin

I could live a million Springs & that would still not be enough time in my Beloved Garden. We grow hundreds of roses in our New Jersey Garden. Follow our tips and you too can successfully have a rose garden.

I don’t take this responsibility lightly, I have a team helping me & we work hard keeping them healthy. We use our gardens for our companies photoshoots etc, so it needs to be “picture perfect” year round!

In this article we will focus on the “Beginners Guide To Planting A Rose Garden”

Our garden is situated on 5 acres and requires several people to maintain. So let’s start small here as to not overwhelm.

Before you get started chose a sunny spot and prepare your soil. Clear out grass, debris and weeds.

-Planting - dig hole twice as big as pot, plant at same level - usually those instructions are on every label.

-Dirt - 3 parts good garden soil, 1 part peat, maybe some rose tone, fill hole to top of plant, water in and add more soil after first water cause original soil will settle. *** before planting gently loosen up the root ball so roots can thrive and add a layer of mulch to keep moisture in and weeds away.

-Some plants will be shipped bare root. Typically these are soaked in water before planting. Follow the directions in the box carefully or on the label very carefully

-make sure to water.

Ten Tips

Choose a sunny location & read the care instructions on your roses
Amend your soil with a rich compost - your garden center can help you with this.
Plant according to the instructions. Give your roses plenty of space.
Feed and water regularly
Spray to prevent black spots, do this in early spring before spots appear!!!
Remove Japanese beetles
Prune all dead canes each spring to prevent disease
Deadhead regularly to encourage healthy roses and encourage more flowers
Visit gardens for inspiration
Educate yourself on the different varieties of roses and their care

Rose Sources we love

The Paris House Garden, Constance Spry

David Austin Roses

Antique Rose Emporium

Heirloom Roses

Jackson & Perkins

Home Depot

Lowe’s

Local specialty gardens in our area Supplies

Country Mile Gardens, Morristown NJ, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart for pruners, shovels, organic sprays, miracle grow, garden gloves (get gloves that come up to your elbows to prevent thorns from cutting you)

The Paris House Garden, Zephrine Drouhin

Various types of roses (there are many we highly recommend reading garden & rose books to learn more)

Floribunda

Hybrid Tea

Climbers

Ramblers

Knockouts

Noisettes

The Paris House, Rose Allee

Garden Books & Magazines We love

The English Roses David Austin

Flower Magazine

Martha Stewart Gardening

Carolyne Roem

The Surprising Life Of Constance Spry

Niagara Park Botanical Gardens Niagara On The Lake Canada

Pillar and Post garden Niagara On The Lake Canada

Pillar and Post garden Niagara On The Lake Canada

Niagara On The Lake Botanical Gardens Canada

All products can be shopped at this link :

Shop Garden Items & Roses Here

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Pillar and Post garden Niagara On The Lake Canada

Travel & Visit Gardens

Niagara On The Lakes Botanical Gardens

Gardens in The Cotswolds and throughout England

Giverny

New York Botanical Gardens

The Mount Lenox MA

And many more

Garnish a mocktail or cocktail with rose petals from your garden. Be sure to only use pesticide free! We make a fresh raspberry/ strawberry purée from our gardens as the starting point!