Fruit Salad by bookseller

At this time of year, my vote would be for an enormous fruit salad. You can make a syrup by boiling down orange juice (and lemon juice, if you got) with some zest, maybe a few cardamoms, and some sugar; when it's the consistency of, say, light cream (don't go all the way to maple syrup), glug in some liqueur if you have any (Gran Marnier?), and toss it all with the berries, any other fruit, ideally some orange segments (the cherries are out, they would go nicely), and stick it in the fridge to marinate. Come time to serve, toast some walnut halves and scatter them on top -- or pistachios, they'd be pretty, maybe some fresh mint. Offer some whipped cream or Greek yogurt to anyone who wants, but it will be just wonderful without, and nobody will feel remotely deprived.