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simple fruit salad
My children love to have fruit salad as an after school snack. I often serve it to them with organic yogurt, adding a bit of vanilla and agave nectar to the yogurt.
It’s just about fruit season here in Colorado and everything is starting to look luscious. We have strawberries ripening on the plants in the front yard and peaches (still green) on our peach tree in the back. Right now however, even though I’m harvesting mountains of kale and various salad greens from our front and back yard, I am still relegated to purchasing my fruit at the grocery store. We’re not quite there yet. As in, summer.
To make your fruit salad more glamorous, splurge on fancy, expensive fruit, and use pineapple in place of the peaches for the recipe below. You also might like to add a bit of unsweetened shredded coconut, if you go tropical with your fruit salad.
I like to keep my fruit salads simple with 3 or 4 different fruits so that I can really taste each of the distinct flavors. Here’s one (well actually two) of my favorite fruit combos.
Simple Fruit Salad Recipe :
3 bananas, sliced, 4 medium peaches or 1 medium pineapple, sliced, 1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced
1 pint blueberries, Combine all of the fruit in a large bowl, Refrigerate for 1 or 2 hours (not longer or the bananas might brown)
When I put together my post for a Mother’s Day Brunch, it was absolutely amazing to me, how dire the offerings were on the internet for a simple fruit salad. First, it was terribly difficult to find a fruit salad that did not have sugar added to it. I don’t know about you, however, I don’t actually eat a lot of fruit because it has so much sugar in it in the first place. Adding more sugar to all that sugar? Not a happy day for my body.
During my dissatisfying quest to find a simple fruit salad, I did find this simple fruit salad post on one of my favorite blogs, Mark’s Daily Apple. Funny, he discussed the exact issue that I was running into. It was nice to know I was not alone.
cherry blueberry crumble
For filling, place cherries and blueberries in a 2 quart baking dish
Sprinkle fruit with agave, lemon juice and vanilla, then toss in arrowroot
To make the crumble, in a large bowl, combine almond flour and salt
In a smaller bowl, combine grapeseed oil and agave
Mix the wet ingredients into dry to form the topping
Then crumble topping over fruit mixture
Cover and bake at 350° for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until bubbling
Uncover and bake a few more minutes until topping is golden brown
Remove from oven and serve
Whole Foods is celebrating the season of cherries this week on their blog with information on the harvest and great personal stories of some of their favorite cherry farmers. Head on over there for more interesting information.
Over here in Colorado, it’s slug season. Despite my best efforts at slug abatement in my beloved garden (yogurt container tops filled with beer, mulching, quadruple washing my greens), the other night while I was eating dinner, a huge black slug crawled out of my salad and onto the table. Yikes! For those of you who hang out with me on Facebook you got moment to moment updates on the slug incident. Special thanks to Anaquita Rose who suggested washing each leaf individually. Why didn’t I think of that?!
Finally, I also wanted to mention that I was selected to be July’s Chef of the Month for the Organic Dish. The Organic Dish is a service in Boulder makes it easy to order healthy, organic meals online that are available for pick up or delivery. They will be featuring one of my favorite summer salmon dishes, Salmon with Olive Tapenade.
Mixed Berry and Banana Fruit Salad
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light… Happy Fourth of July! If you are thinking about ideas for something red, white, and blue to bring to a July 4th gathering, consider this simple mixed berry and banana salad. It’s light and easy, with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, chopped apple, and bananas, tossed together with honey and lemon juice.
So, what are you making for Fourth of July? Grilling? Barbecuing? Please let us know in the comments, I’m always looking for ideas.
Mixed Berry and Banana Fruit Salad Recipe
INGREDIENTS
2 cups hulled, roughly chopped strawberries, A handful of raspberries, 1 cup blueberries,1 apple, peeled, cored, roughly chopped, 2 bananas, peeled and thickly sliced, 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon honey.
METHOD
Prep the berries before the bananas and apples, and add them to a large bowl. As soon as you add the bananas and apples, sprinkle lemon juice over them to keep them from getting brown. Add the zest and the honey and gently toss to combine.
Serve immediately. Or cover and chill for up to 2 hours before serving.
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