04-10-2008, 11:00 AM
Twitchy's Famous Fruit Salad
Ingredients:
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Honeydew melon
Grapes - seedless
Bing Cherries, pitted
Kiwi fruit - in chunks
Pineapple - in chunks
Berries (in season)
Juice of one whole lemon
If you want to use 1/2 watermelon as a bowl:
Using a melon baller, scoop out the flesh of the melons into little balls and put into a LARGE glass bowl. be careful to keep the juice from the watermelon inside the half cut melon when scooping. Drain this juice when done and save it for the variation if you want to use it.
If you don't want to use the melon as the bowl, just cut up the fruit into large chunks.
Cut up the rest of the fruit. Place in same glass bowl with melons. You can leave the grapes whole if they are small or halve them if they are gigantic.
Put all this in a container or you can scoop out the rest of the watermelon if you bought a big one, cut the edges into a fancy design and put the fruit in there.
Sprinkle with the lemon juice to help keep the fruit from discoloring.
If you like your fruit salad sweet, you can sprinkle sugar on it. Mix it well and cover tightly and put in the refrigerator for several hours to let the flavors blend and juices develop.
Serve anytime as a light refreshing treat. Great for breakfast too!
Variation:
Take a bottle of Raspberry flavored Vodka and toss it into the melon with the left over watermelon juice. 50/50 mixture of vodka to juice.
Use enough vodka mix according to how big you made your salad. I usually make gigantic sizes!
Your salad will last a very very long time if you put the vodka in. Vodka preserves it but it can make the fruit a bit mushy.
Careful with the 'adult' version! you WILL get drunk fast!
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Ingredients:
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Honeydew melon
Grapes - seedless
Bing Cherries, pitted
Kiwi fruit - in chunks
Pineapple - in chunks
Berries (in season)
Juice of one whole lemon
If you want to use 1/2 watermelon as a bowl:
Using a melon baller, scoop out the flesh of the melons into little balls and put into a LARGE glass bowl. be careful to keep the juice from the watermelon inside the half cut melon when scooping. Drain this juice when done and save it for the variation if you want to use it.
If you don't want to use the melon as the bowl, just cut up the fruit into large chunks.
Cut up the rest of the fruit. Place in same glass bowl with melons. You can leave the grapes whole if they are small or halve them if they are gigantic.
Put all this in a container or you can scoop out the rest of the watermelon if you bought a big one, cut the edges into a fancy design and put the fruit in there.
Sprinkle with the lemon juice to help keep the fruit from discoloring.
If you like your fruit salad sweet, you can sprinkle sugar on it. Mix it well and cover tightly and put in the refrigerator for several hours to let the flavors blend and juices develop.
Serve anytime as a light refreshing treat. Great for breakfast too!
Variation:
Take a bottle of Raspberry flavored Vodka and toss it into the melon with the left over watermelon juice. 50/50 mixture of vodka to juice.
Use enough vodka mix according to how big you made your salad. I usually make gigantic sizes!
Your salad will last a very very long time if you put the vodka in. Vodka preserves it but it can make the fruit a bit mushy.
Careful with the 'adult' version! you WILL get drunk fast!
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