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A healthful dessert or snack for Independence Day Weekend: You can’t go wrong with Red, White & Blue Fruit Salad. This fanciful fruit dessert was created by the National Watermelon Promotion Board. RECIPE: RED, WHITE & BLUE FRUIT SALAD Ingredients For 4 Servings 4 cups watermelon balls 2 cups fresh blueberries 4 dollops prepared whipped…
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Dolce de bananas becomes a banana toffee pie. Here’s the recipe. Photo courtesy OurBestBites.com. We went overboard at Trader Joe’s, buying too many bananas with the thought that we’d eat one or two each day. You can guess the outcome: a lot of overripe bananas. So we headed to our mental archive of delicious…
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Yesterday we featured Part 1 of How To Store Fresh Fruit. Continuing in alphabetical order, here are: GRAPES Grapes continue to ripen after picking, and can be refrigerated to slow the ripening process. You can determine freshness by examining the stems. Fresh grapes will have green and pliable stems, while grapes that have been stored…
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Don’t toss fresh fruit in the fridge: Most fruits are best kept in a cool, dry place, such as on a countertop, away from sunlight and heat. As with tomatoes, refrigeration can actually alter the flavor. That’s why you should only buy what you can reasonably expect to consume before it becomes overripe. Today’s tip…
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If you haven’t been getting your recommended portions of fruits and vegetables*, how about starting your day with a breakfast salad? You can have one of these fruit-based salads with your regular breakfast foods—cereal, eggs, a bagel—or with a side of cottage cheese, ricotta and/or yogurt. This recipe comes from Lynn’s Paradise Café, Louisville, Kentucky…
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