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| I have never taken fruit anywhere and have been asked to take a fresh fruit dish to a shower. I believe they just want cut up fruit. How do I go about this? Do I have to put anything on it to preserve it? Has anyone made chocolate dipped strawberries? Would they be something messy to take? |
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| Fruit Kabobs with Margarita Dip Submitted by: Better Homes and Gardens Makes 1 and 3/4 cups ****This was served at a KT get-together over the weekend, and it was a HIT!!! Fruit was secured with grapes on each end and was served on a platter with the kabobs stuck onto a halved canteloupe with the skin side up.
" For an alcohol-free dessert, use orange juice in place of the tequila in the fluffy cream cheese dip. " Ingredients Directions
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| ****When you add the angelfood cube, put it between a grape and a strawberry, so it won't soak up juices from the pineapple/cantaloupe |
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| No, chocolate dipped strawberries aren't messy. If you want to do just fruit, cut it into slices or wedges which could easily be eaten as finger food. I usually serve them on a platter, attractively fanned out in batches of colour, so I don't do similar coloured fruits next to each other, with a good range of colours. Make sure you have removed any inedible rind and seeds- if I don't use seedless watermelon I usually pick out the seeds after I have sliced it. Don't use fruits which brown on exposure to air, like apples, pears and bananas, though if you are going to eat the fruit soon after preparation you can dip these in water with a little lemon juice and it will slow down the process. Good fruits to use are melons, grapes, berries, oranges, halved plums and apricots, kiwifruit, pineapple, and most tropical fruits. Peaches can be a little messy :-) |
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- Posted by Virginia7074 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 03 at 23:32
| I like to cut watermelon, cantalope & honeydew into cubes (more work to take the seeds out of the watermelon, but nicer), strawberries, grapes, kiwi, mango, blueberries (sometimes a few blackberries & raspberries) and fresh pineapple. Sometimes, I use a melon baller. Looks pretty in a crystal punch bowl garnished with mint sprigs. |
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- Posted by eliza_ann (lighthouseroad@rogers.com) on Mon, Jul 14, 03 at 22:50
| strawberries look great if you dip some in dark chocolate and some in white chocolate.also they look very pretty if you leave the stems on.When you dip them try to only dip about two thirds of the berry so that you can see the red and green at the end.I did them for my daughters small garden weddingand they looked too pretty to eat.yhey're very easy to do and take no time at all.Something else I made was a watermelon basket filled with assorted fruit cut up.just sprinkle your fruit with lemon juice,and it won't turn brown. |
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