Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips

I saw this on Good Things Utah and made it for a Girls Night one night.  Super yummy and fresh. I used fresh blackberries instead of frozen raspberries. Also, I didn't add the white or brown sugar or the fruit preserves. It was good just natural!  It is from www.worldwidewardcookbook.blogspot.com.

2 kiwis, peeled and diced

2 apples, peeled, cored and diced

1 lb. fresh strawberries, diced

1 8oz pkg. raspberries, thawed (I used fresh blackberries)

2 tbsp. white sugar

1 tbsp. brown sugar

3 tbsp. fruit preserves, any flavor

In large bowl mix all ingredients. Cover and chill for 20 minutes.

Cinnamon Chips

10 10inch flour tortillas

vegetable oil for frying

2 c. cinnamon-sugar

Cut tortilla into strips or triangles. Heat oil in frying pan. Drop tortilla pieces into hot oil a few at a time. When golden brown, remove and immediately drop into cinnamon-sugar mixture. Coat chips with mixture and then place on paper towels. Allow chips to cool. Serve with Fruit Salsa.

Low-Calorie Spinach Craisen Salad

I've been eating this salad with my lunch lately, it's so good...full of greens and sweetend enough with some fruit. I don't make a large salad, just keep these few ingredients in the fridge already cut up and ready to put one together quick.

Handful of baby spinach

Purple onion, cut into rings (I had to use a white onion but purple would give it some pretty color)

Clementine, peeled

Small handful of craisens (not too many...they have a lot of sugar)

pinch of chopped pecans for some crunch

Use Strawberry Vinegarette salad dressing. You can even add a grilled chicken breast to make it a complete meal. SO GOOD!

Fruit Pizza

Our family is really wanting Spring to come...but since Nova Scotia isn't warming up any time soon we decided to make something "Springy or Summery" to help it along. There are so many different ways to make Fruit Pizza but this is how we did it today!

The crust was made with my favorite sugar cookie mix, (Betty Crocker in a pouch, add 1 stick melted butter and one egg) spread onto a greased pizza pan and baked at 375F for about 10 minutes. Cool completely.

The filling was just a fruit dip, this time made with Peach flavored cream cheese. You can also make your pizza with cream cheese frosting or even just whipped topping.

1 8-oz tub cream cheese, softened, any flavor
1 jar marshmallow cream
1 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese, add to marshmallow cream in bowl and mix with hand mixer until smooth. Add vanilla and mix well.

Spread fruit dip, whipped topping or cream cheese frosting on top of cooled cookie crust. Arrange cut up fruit of choice and enjoy!

Breakfast Shake

My husband drinks this for breakfast most mornings. It is a great balance of fruit and veggies, protein and calcium from the yogurt and protein from the egg but still tastes really good. The suggestion is on the carton of the pasteurized egg whites. He started adding the baby spinach after seeing my friend CH adds it to her shakes. My kids love this shake as well, but I won't try it. I am really weird about the eggs, even though they are pasteurized.

1 c. mixed fruit ( he usually uses the frozen fruit mix from Costco, in this picture it is just frozen strawberries)
1 banana (sometimes he leaves this out depending on how much frozen fruit he uses)
1 handful of baby spinach
1 small yogurt, any flavor
1/2 c. fruit juice (he uses apple mainly but you can use whatever you like)
1/4 c. egg whites (pasteurized)

1 tsp. flax seed oil

Add all ingredients in blender. Drink immediately.

Dutch Oven Peach Cobbler

Mix together in dutch oven OR you can use a large saute pan with lid:
2 quarts canned peaches
1/4 c. water
1/4 c. tapioca

1 yellow cake mix, sprinkled on top
1 c. brown sugar
1/2-1 stick butter, cut into pats, placed over cake mix

Do not stir cake mix into peach mixture, but take butter knife and "cut in" the dry mix into wet just so when baked it is not one large layer of crust on top. Bake covered at 350F for 1 hour.

Fruit Dip

1 8-oz tub fruit flavored cream cheese, softened
1 jar marshmallow cream
1 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese, add to marshmallow cream in bowl and mix with hand mixer until smooth. Add vanilla and mix well. Chill before serving. Serve with variety of fresh cut fruit.

Cookie Fruit Salad

This is a favorite of ours for Thanksgiving and Christmas! It's so good!

2 3-oz or 1 8-oz. instant vanilla pudding mix
2 c. buttermilk
16 oz Cool Whip
1 20-oz can pineapple tidbits, drained well
2 cans mandarin oranges, drained well
1 bunch purple seedless grapes
1 package Keebler Fudge Stripped Cookies

Mix vanilla pudding mix using buttermilk instead of following directions on box. Fold in Cool Whip. Add drained fruit. Crush up Keebler Cookies into salad right before serving, saving about 5 cookies to place on top of salad.