The Funky Kitchen

is that you can pick out all of your favorite things to put in it! And! You can leave out the parts of fruit salad that may not tickle your fancy so much.

My selections included: mango, pear, apple, cherries and raspberries. They are the fruits I like best, and so that is what we ate. It is nice to be the resident culinarily inclined person who cooks all the time, because you get to pander to your likes and dislikes. Ha ha.

Fruit salad is also a really great breakfast because it takes minutes to prepare and gets you revved up for a busy itinerary that follows. A big bowl of fruit salad, mellowed by a little bit of honey and electrified by a little bit of lime  was a great point from which to launch an awesome day.

All Dana’s Favorites Fruit Salad

Ingredients

1 Macintosh Apple

1 Anjou pear

1 mango

2⁄3 Cup cherries

1⁄2 Cup raspberries

1 Tbsp lime juice

1 Tbsp honey

Directions

• Wash all of your fruit thoroughly.
• Core the apple and pear and dice into half inch pieces, and put them in a large bowl
• Peel the mango and remove the flesh from the pip, also dicing it into half inch pieces to add to the bowl.
• Seed your cherries by cutting longitudinally around the pit and twisting the  two halves in opposing directions. One half will pop off easily, and then you can remove the stone from the other side with your fingers or the tip of a knife.
• Add the halved and pitted cherries to the bowl with the apple, pear and mango.
• Tumble the raspberries gently into the bowl.
• Mix together the lime juice and honey so that they will pour easily, and drizzle them over top of the fruit. The lime juice will help prevent the cut fruit from oxidizing, and the honey creates a hygroscopic environment around the fruit that encourages them to release their juices and macerate.
• Toss the fruit gently to distribute the honey and lime, and then dig in ravenously with a spoon.

This fruit salad fed four for breakfast, and because it was made up of all of my favorites it was pretty phenomenal in my books. What would you put in your fruit salad?

Mister liked my fruit salad, but found it a little tart. He says he would include more melon in his favorite picks fruit salad. What a good idea!

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