Jazzed up fruit salad

Apr 27th 10

Jazzed up fruit salad

The other day I had zero time to get ready for a meeting that I’d promised refreshments at. Given that I am “Miss leanKitchen” herself, people come expecting a treat! Alas, Miss leanKitchen stretches herself too thin sometimes, too, so I had to cut a few corners.

So I called my local supermarket, and ordered a fresh fruit salad. TIP: Ask for specific fruit. That way, you know they’re cutting it up just for you! Fresh watermelon and pineapple are always a hit, plus a mix of berries, as well as kiwi’s, grapes, honeydew, and peeled orange segments were in the order that I placed. Cheap, less than $5 a pound, and if you think about the cost of just a clamshell container of blueberries, getting a couple of pounds of fruit salad (and having someone else wash, peel, chop, cut up, etc. the fruit) to me, is a bargain!

How to jazz it up: I CONSTANTLY get people asking me how I got my fruit salad to taste “like that.” It’s tangy, fresh, cleaner, more flavorful than other fruit salads. I’ll give you my little secret- it tastes “like that” due to squeezing the juice of one fresh lime, and sprinkling with chopped mint (I use spearmint from my window herb garden).

VOILA! Jazzed up fruit salad!!