I'm still learning to tolerate main dishes that involve both fruit and meat

I got used to that with all those SCA feasts. :-) There's no quicker way to make a meat dish "taste period" to me than to include some fruit in it or as a side item cooked with the meat (e.g. beef roast with apples and onions). I'm not normally fond of dishes that mix meat and sweet flavors, but apparently fruit is not-sweet enough to pass muster.