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Easy fruit salad recipes
How to disappear vast quantities of fruit in no time at all
Easy fruit salad recipes are a great way to serve a fancy yet healthy dessert with little effort.
When my sister invites our family over for dinner, her four kids and our two add up to a whole lot of fruit eating! Since her daughter is allergic to peanuts and we eat peanut butter, we never cook food at home to bring. Instead, she puts us in charge of fruit salad, and we shop on the way over, buying whatever's fresh and enticing at the local Chinese greengrocer, which always stocks a huge variety of inexpensive fruits and vegetables.
One of our family's favorite easy fruit salad recipes is an Apple Waldorf salad recipe. A basic Waldorf has just apples, celery and mayonnaise, but we go quite a bit further with walnuts, sour cream, fennel, lettuce, endive, grapes, and more!
Speaking of apples, this apple fennel salad makes a great appetizer salad. You can throw it together in minutes and it looks like something a chi-chi restaurant would serve!
Here are three easy fruit salad recipes we make and serve when our two families get together, and there are never any left-overs! Of course, since you probably aren't cooking for ten, I've adjusted the proportions downards - each easy fruit salad recipe should serve 4.
While I'm a big fan of buying foods in-season, you can't escape the fact that (A) in northern climates, nothing is in season for long stretches of the year, and (B) for much of that time, you can buy just about any fruit or vegetable fresh from the local greengrocer or supermarket. This Apple pear strawberry salad is a great example of a salad you can make any time of year - and it's never truly in season!
In my younger days I did a lot of canning and preserving, and one of my favorite preserves was a pickled canteloupe recipe from an old Life Magazine cookbook. This melon cranberry salad is in part a tribute to that great canning recipe - for which, incidentally, I once won second prize at the Mecosta County Fair in Big Rapids, Michigan!
Ambrosia fruit salad is an all-time kids favorite - they love to make it and they love to eat it. They especially love to pull the marshmallows out while they're waiting for dessert!
At the peak of the summer season when countless local fruits are in season - berries, melons, pears - you can make an amazing Summer fruit salad recipe, especially if you throw in just a hint of tropical fruit - bananas and kiwis - and more than a hint of whipping cream.
Fruit salads are one great way to disappear vast quantities of delicious ripe fruit. Another great way is by making smoothies. Our family spent some time in Central America and became big fans of smoothies, or "batidos" as they're known there - so much so that we bought a Vitamix blender when we moved back home, so we could have batidos every morning! You can find lots of great smoothie recipes at Smoothies-And-Health.com.
There are lots of tasty fruits in these simple desserts at Free-Holiday-Recipes.com.
Peach recipes reign supreme at Peach Depot, a site containing hundreds of free, easy peach recipes with pictures, peach nutritional information and more. A website devoted entirely to everything peach!
For oodles of great strawberry recipes, why not check out a whole website devoted to strawberries? This strawberry fruit salad recipe is one of over sixty great recipes on Strawberries-For-Strawberry-Lovers.com.
Another good site if you want to expand beyond fruit salads is Comfort-Recipes.net where you'll find lots of other great dessert recipes.
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