Archive for the 'Fruit' Category

Grilled Balsamic and Grapefruit Salmon

November 24, 2009

My neighbor and good friend kindly brought me some grapefruits off her grandparent’s tree. I was so excited to dig right into them.I love grapefruits for breakfast, but also wanted to use them for a great dinner. I found this recipe on Sunkist and it was great! Nice and light too!
ENJOY!

Ingredients: Serves 4
1 cup freshly squeezed [...]

Broiled Grapefruit

November 10, 2009

With delicious grapefruits coming into season, I grabbed up a few for my breakfast. My favorite way to have a grapefruit, is to broil it! This makes it tasty and warm perfect to get your day started right.
ENJOY!

Ingredients:
1 half of a grapefruit
cinnamon
sugar-I used splenda
Directions:
Cut grapefruit in half and cut around the pith to separate the wedges. [...]

Crockpot applesauce and Oct 09 Tasty Tools

October 20, 2009

An easy great way to have homemade applesauce. A few steps and let it go! I found this on A Year of Slow Cooking and it is great! I doubled it for extras to freeze and use in handpies.
I am also submitting this to Joelen’s Tasty Tools Event. Check out her blog at the end [...]

Fall salad with maple vinaigrette

October 6, 2009

What a great fall salad from Martha Stewart. I love that this salad utilizes the great apples now coming into season. This was light and tasty and went with so many of our meals.
ENJOY!

Ingredients:
2 tbsp evoo
1 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tsp pure maple syrup
1.5 tsp dijon mustard
salt and pepper
endive halved and cored and sliced
watercress
4 celery stalks [...]

Mini caramel apples

September 23, 2009

I have seen this little cuties all over the place lately and decided to whip some up. You can make these to your liking using any kind of candies to top the caramel with or just keep them plain caramel. I tried a few different toppings-chopped nuts, coconut, chocolate drizzle, crushed m and m’s, sprinkles [...]

Candy Corn Parfait

September 11, 2009

Not a parfait of candy corns, but a parfait to look just like a candy corn!! I love it and it was great. A nice light dessert that looks awesome. This was found in the latest Food Network Magazine. This makes one large parfait or two smaller ones. I got two smaller ones by using [...]

Fruit salsa with cinnamon chips

August 31, 2009

This recipe is fantastic and was just what I was craving. Easy to make, delicious and can be made a day ahead. Made a great addition to our bbq last weekend.  Found on allrecipes.com
ENJOY!

Ingredients:
2 kiwis, peeled and diced
2 Golden Delicious apples – peeled, cored and diced
8 ounces raspberries
1 pound strawberries
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 tablespoon brown [...]

German Pancake and Aug 09 Tasty Tools: Cast Iron Skillets

August 18, 2009

This months tasty tools for Joelen’s Culinary Adventures is Cast Iron Skillets. I have never used one before and dont even own one, but thankfully I was up visiting my folks and my mom has one. So after some search I decided to make a German pancake with apple topping-cooked apples in butter and cinnamon. [...]

Fruit skewers FLAG STYLE!!

July 3, 2009

HAPPY 4th of July. Once again my love of this holiday comes through on a great fruit dish! I found this on line, I cant remember where, so if this is your idea pls let me know so I can cite you!!! Great idea for the 4th of July!
ENJOY!

Ingredients:
Blueberries-I used one pkg
Strawberries-I just two pkgs
Bananas [...]

Salmon with blueberry-mango salsa

July 2, 2009

A great, light summer meal. I found this recipe in my fitness magazine and made it right away. It was nice and light, while full of flavor. Great meals don’t have to ruin your diet! I loved the use of the seasonal fruits here and the combined flavors were perfect!
ENJOY!

Ingredients: Makes 4 servings
1/3 cup blueberries
1/3 [...]