Last Thursday I woke up and felt like drying a bunch of food. The kids thought that it was a fun project for school and we all pitched in! We dried bananas and made fruit leather. We made some granola(that the kids promptly devoured) and we even tried making the raw potato chips that I found in a recipe book of Mom's. They turned out surprisingly 'chippy', but I really didn't like the apple cider vinegar taste on them. Next time I will try lime or some other flavoring to keep them from browning in the dehydrator.
Anyway, we had a good day and filled all of our dryer trays with good snacks. It's really a lot of fun to teach the kids about healthy eating. Seth even decide to try all raw this week...we'll see how he likes it!!
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Ginger Mint Fruit Salad
This Is my favorite fruit salad!!
For ginger syrup
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh ginger left unpeeled
For fruit salad
4 cups (1-inch pieces) summer fruit (such as mixed berries, melons, peaches, and/or nectarines)
2 tablespoons small mint leaves
Preparation
Make syrup:
In a heavy sauce pan, heat honey and ginger over med. heat until it is almost at a boil*, stir constantly. Just before it boils lower the heat and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. remove from heat and let steep 15-30 minutes (the longer you steep it the more potent the ginger flavor is). Pour ginger syrup through a sieve into a bowl, discarding ginger. Chill, covered, at least 2 hours.
Make fruit salad:
Toss fruit and mint with 1/4 cup syrup, or to taste.
Cooks' note:
Syrup keeps, covered and chilled, 2 weeks.
*To make this raw, blend raw honey with a little water (enough to make it syrupy) add ginger and let sit overnight. pour through a sieve into a bowl and discard ginger.
I actually keep the ginger and chew on it when I want a treat.
For ginger syrup
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh ginger left unpeeled
For fruit salad
4 cups (1-inch pieces) summer fruit (such as mixed berries, melons, peaches, and/or nectarines)
2 tablespoons small mint leaves
Preparation
Make syrup:
In a heavy sauce pan, heat honey and ginger over med. heat until it is almost at a boil*, stir constantly. Just before it boils lower the heat and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. remove from heat and let steep 15-30 minutes (the longer you steep it the more potent the ginger flavor is). Pour ginger syrup through a sieve into a bowl, discarding ginger. Chill, covered, at least 2 hours.
Make fruit salad:
Toss fruit and mint with 1/4 cup syrup, or to taste.
Cooks' note:
Syrup keeps, covered and chilled, 2 weeks.
*To make this raw, blend raw honey with a little water (enough to make it syrupy) add ginger and let sit overnight. pour through a sieve into a bowl and discard ginger.
I actually keep the ginger and chew on it when I want a treat.
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