Cooking

Green Fruit Salad

~ lindy

Green Fruit Salad

*3 cold Green Apples, cut in bite size pieces

*4 cold Kiwi, peeled sliced and sliced again in half

*2 bunches of cold Green Grapes, washed 

*Juice and Zest of 1 Lime

*1/2 cup Sugar

*1/2 cup Water

Simple Syrup

In a sauce pan add the sugar and water, on medium heat, bring to a simmer and simmer until sugar has dissolved.  Then cool down in a cold water bath and when cooled add the lime zest and Juice.

In a large serving bowl add apples, kiwi and grapes.  Pour over the fruit the simple syrup mixture and stir to cover all the fruit.  Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes to marinate.  Serve cold.

Enjoy!

Lindy

Mini Shamrock Lime Shake

~ lindy

Mini Shamrock Lime Shake

*1/2 gallon Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, softened

*Juice and Zest of 1 Lime 

*Green Food Coloring, I used 7 drops but add as desired

*Cool Whip Topping or Whipped Cream Topping

*1 cup Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers, Ghirardelli

Melt Wafers in the Microwave 20 second increments, stirring between each increment, until almost melted.  Then remove from microwave and stir chocolate until completely melted.  

Chill 8 mini glasses in the freeze for about 15 to 20 minutes.  Then remove 1 at a time and dip the tops of each glass in melted chocolate and use a spoon that comes more to a round point to add drips down the inside of each glass. Return to the freezer until ready to add the ice cream.

Then add some cookies to the bottom of each glass and pipe in ice cream mixture

Allow Ice cream to soften enough to stir.   Then add lime juice and zest and stir in until incorporated.  

Scoop ice cream mixture into a Ziploc gallon sized bag, cut of one of the corners and pipe into chilled prepared mini glasses.

Then add some cookies to the bottom of each glass and pipe in ice cream mixture 

*Chocolate Mint Cookies, like Keebler grasshopper Cookies cut cookies into 1/4 pieces,  use the crumbs for serving on top of cool whip topping etc…

Enjoy!

Lindy