That same old basket.. Same old corner.. Fruits howling in mercy ... pick me up...no first pick
me..no pick... me... pick.. no me....firstttt
Ahhhhwwww.....
Get out of this Boredom yaaaaaaaa.........
Come on ... lets make this Lively...
what say.....
Fruit Attacccccckkkkkk !!
Toss up fruits in syrups, melting chocolates, pies, puddings .........etc.
Hey.... I will share some mouth watering recipes that will be nutritious, scrumptious, filling and
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Strawberry Fruit Dip
An Easy Snack Recipe for Kids!
An Easy Snack Recipe for Kids!
Now your kids can dip their way into getting more fruit in their diets! Add fruit dip in the lunch box or on snack platters using sliced fruit like apples, strawberries or sliced melon. A great vegetarian snack recipe too.
Makes 4 Servings
Ingredients:
2 Cups Strawberries, fresh or frozen (defrosted)
1 Cup Vanilla yogurt
1/4 Cup Cream cheese
2 Cups Strawberries, fresh or frozen (defrosted)
1 Cup Vanilla yogurt
1/4 Cup Cream cheese
Method:
Defrost frozen strawberries or, if using fresh strawberries, wash thoroughly.
Combine all ingredients in blender or food processor and mix until smooth.
Combine all ingredients in blender or food processor and mix until smooth.
Note: Strawberries are a kid-friendly source of fiber and vitamin C.
Options for Strawberry Fruit Dip:
Low-fat cream cheese tastes great and cuts fat. Pineapple or raspberries are a good recipe substitute. Mix up the texture, adding chopped almonds or walnuts.
Berries In A Cloud
Ingredients:
6 egg whites at room temperature
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
1/3 cup sugar
2-3 cups strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries
Directions:
1. Whip egg whites to soft peaks.
2. Add cream of tartar and blend for one minute. Sprinkle sugar over the blended mixture and whip until you have stiff peaks.
3. Spoon the mixture on a cookie sheet lined with ungreased parchment paper. Form a shell with each spooned mixture by creating a small well in the center.
4. Bake at 225 degrees for 2 to 2½ hours (check your oven temperature for accuracy), until meringue shells are dry and very pale beige.
5. Turn off oven and let meringues stand in oven with the door closed for two hours. Remove and cool.
6. Gently remove meringue clouds from paper with a flat spatula. Add fresh berries in the center. Serve with whipped cream, drizzle with chocolate, or garnish to your taste. Serves 10.
Tropical Fruit With Lime Dressing
This colorful dish highlights the exotic flavors of the tropics, using ingredients that grow where the weather is warm year-round.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
2 medium oranges
1 ripe mango
1 firm-ripe avocado
1 ripe papaya
1/2 cup fresh lime juice (about 4 limes)
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon ground red chile powder (optional)
2 medium oranges
1 ripe mango
1 firm-ripe avocado
1 ripe papaya
1/2 cup fresh lime juice (about 4 limes)
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon ground red chile powder (optional)
Peel away the rind and the white pith (which tastes bitter) from the oranges and then cut them crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Help your child peel and slice the mango, avocado, and papaya. Arrange the slices in a decorative pattern on a platter. In a bowl, whisk together the lime juice, honey, and chile powder, if you like. Drizzle the dressing over the fruit. Serve at room temperature. Makes 6 servings.
Chocolate Fondue with Fresh Fruit
Yield: Makes 8 servings
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup heavy cream, divided
4 ounces (1/2 cup) cream cheese, cut in chunks
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sucralose-based sugar substitute
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
24 green or red seedless grapes
12 small to medium strawberries, halved, or 6 large strawberries, quartered
1 cup heavy cream, divided
4 ounces (1/2 cup) cream cheese, cut in chunks
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sucralose-based sugar substitute
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
24 green or red seedless grapes
12 small to medium strawberries, halved, or 6 large strawberries, quartered
Preparation:
1. Combine cocoa and 1/2 cup cream in small saucepan or fondue pot over low heat; whisk to mix completely. When cocoa mixture is hot and thick, add remaining cream and cream cheese. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and thick. Add sucralose and vanilla; stir to mix.
2.Keep fondue warm over very low heat. Arrange strawberries and grapes on a plate. Use wooden skewers or fondue forks for dipping.
Tip: Substitute fruit in season for the grapes and strawberries.
Great-Start Fruit Shake
When you need a refreshing alternative to orange juice, pour yourself a glass of this delicious breakfast shake.
Ingredients:
1 large frozen ripe banana, cut into small pieces
1 medium ripe mango (about 1 pound), peeled, pitted and chopped
1 can (8 ounces) unsweetened crushed pineapple in juice
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup skim milk
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ice cubes
Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: None Serves 4
1 large frozen ripe banana, cut into small pieces
1 medium ripe mango (about 1 pound), peeled, pitted and chopped
1 can (8 ounces) unsweetened crushed pineapple in juice
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup skim milk
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ice cubes
Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: None Serves 4
1. In a blender or food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine banana, mango, pineapple with juice, orange juice, milk, sugar, and vanilla. Process until smooth, about 1 minute.
2. Add ice cubes, 1 at a time, to blender, pulsing after each addition, until mixture is smooth and foamy, about 1 minute. Pour fruit mixture into 4 chilled glasses. Serve immediately.
It's hot outside and you're thirsty! What to do? Instead of just reaching for a canned soda or drinks made from a mix, try a thirst quenching, simple to make homemade fruit beverage made from natural ingredients.
Nothing could be more invigorating and refreshing than a homemade fruit drink in a frosty glass on a warm Summer day! Here's an assortment of recipes for chilled fruit drinks and teas to try this summer season!
Cranberry Cooler
4 cups cranberry, cranberry-apple or cranberry-grape juice
2 1/2 cups club soda
ice cubes
Preparation - Mix together. Fill a glass with ice cubes. Pour juice over ice and serve.
2 1/2 cups club soda
ice cubes
Preparation - Mix together. Fill a glass with ice cubes. Pour juice over ice and serve.
Orangeade
2 cups orange juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water
Preparation - Combine ingredients and stir. Pour over cracked ice in tall glasses. Garnish with fresh oranges slices.
Smoothies... those delicious, creamy, frosty fruit drinks, are good for you and so simple to make. Creating the trendy, cool, thirst quenching concoctions in your kitchen couldn't be easier.Choose your ingredients, wash the fruit, peel or cut into chunks, if needed, then let your blender do the rest. Kids love them too, and smoothies are a good way to add extra nutrition to their diets.
To make fresh fruit smoothies, use just one fruit or a few kinds of fruit that go well together, such as strawberries and bananas, pineapples and oranges, peaches and berries, etc.
Yogurt used in a smoothie can be plain, vanilla or yogurt with fruit... regular, low-fat or non-fat.
You can also use milk, either whole milk, 1%, 2% or skim milk, or use a combination of both milk and yogurt.
For high protein smoothies, replace the milk with soy milk. To cut the fat but still have a rich and creamy drink, use fat free or low-fat soy milk.
To reap the benefits of soy without sacrificing calcium, use calcium fortified soy milk.
When fresh fruit is not available, buy unsweetened frozen fruit... berries, peaches, melon, etc.
Use it straight from the freezer... no thawing needed. There's no need to add ice cubes when making smoothies with frozen fruit.
If you have bananas that are becoming over ripe, freeze them to use in smoothies. With frozen bananas you can also have cold frosty smoothies without adding ice cubes.
Fruit juice can be fresh, from a carton, or from frozen fruit juice concentrate.
Use orange juice, pineapple juice, white grape juice or a juice blend.
Your choice should compliment the fruit you're using. Add a dash of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla or perhaps a little honey or maple syrup. Be creative!
For a basic smoothie, use -
1/2 to 1 cup fruit
1 cup plain or fruit yogurt
1/2 cup fruit juice
about 4 ice cubes
1/2 to 1 cup fruit
1 cup plain or fruit yogurt
1/2 cup fruit juice
about 4 ice cubes
Combine all the ingredients in a blender. Process on high until the ice is completely crushed and the drink is smooth and creamy.
The blender used to make smoothies can be a basic blender, with just a high and low setting, or a deluxe multi speed model, as long as it's powerful enough to crush ice cubes. Smoothie makers, new counter top appliances like the one shown above, feature powerful motors, heavy-duty ice-crushing blades, built in pusher/stirrers and convenient dispensing taps for easy serving.
Cherry Smoothies
Make a pretty, pink delicious smoothie with maraschino cherries. Use low-fat or lite yogurt and whipped topping for a healthier version of this cherry smoothie.
2/3 cup maraschino cherries, drained
1 container (8 oz. or 1 cup) cherry yogurt, regular or low fat
1 cup orange juice
3/4 cup pineapple juice
1 cup (approximately) frozen whipped topping, regular or lite
extra maraschino cherries for garnish, if desired
1 container (8 oz. or 1 cup) cherry yogurt, regular or low fat
1 cup orange juice
3/4 cup pineapple juice
1 cup (approximately) frozen whipped topping, regular or lite
extra maraschino cherries for garnish, if desired
Preparation - Place the cherries, orange juice, pineapple juice, yogurt, and whipped topping in a blender or smoothie maker. Process for about 1 minute or until smooth. Makes 2 large smoothies.
Kiwi, Grape & Honeydew Smoothie
This pleasing combination of fruits makes a refreshing smoothie. There is no milk or yogurt in this thick and frosty drink, just pureed fruit and ice.
1 kiwi fruit - peeled and chopped
1 cup white grapes
1 cup honeydew melon chunks
1 cup white grape juice
6 tp 8 ice cubes
Preparation - Place all the ingredients in the blender container. Process on high speed until the mixture is well-blended, the ice is completely crushed and the drink is smooth and creamy.
After telling quite a few recipes I am sure you ought to try them.. And lemme know how they tasted...
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Fruits are a good reason
so mix and match and
grab the right patch...
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