Dip That Chip Into Fresh Fruit Salsa

There is nothing like the sweet, succulent tastes of summer. The summer drinks, wedges of juicy watermelon, and icy popsicles. I always love to round out the savory flavor of a meal off the grill with something sweet. I was led to this fruit salsa recipe by a friend and I don't quite know who to credit, since the recipe I have was written on scratch paper. I've been told it's based on a Weight Watchers recipe (didn't have any luck when I tried to track it down online), but all I know is that it's delicious and I had to share.

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Fresh Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips

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2 kiwis peeled & diced

2 golden delicious apples peeled, cored, & diced

8 oz raspberries, diced

1 lb strawberries, diced

2 Tbsp white sugar

1 Tbsp brown sugar

3 Tbsp fruit preserves, any flavor

10 flour tortillas (I use whole wheat)

Cooking spray

1 cup cinnamon sugar mixture, to taste

In a large bowl, thoroughly mix kiwis, apples, raspberries, strawberries, white & brown sugar, and fruit preserves. Cover and chill in the fridge for at least 15 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Coat one side of each tortilla with cooking spray. Cut into wedges and arrange in a single layer on a large baking sheet. Sprinkle wedges with desired amount of cinnamon sugar. Spray again with cooking spray. Bake in the preheated oven 8 - 10 minutes. Repeat with any remaining tortilla wedges. Allow to cool 15 minutes.

You could opt out of adding the white and brown sugar if you wanted to cut back on the sugar in the recipe. If I'm short on time, I purchase cinnamon sugar pita chips instead of baking the tortillas myself. This recipe is so simple! The only work involved is the chopping, so we use our awesome Pampered Chef handheld chopper for taking on that task. Or invite your significant other into the kitchen to get down and dirty and chop together.

So slip this summery treat on the table at your next BBQ or summer dinner date with friends. This appetizer is sure to be a hit and why not secretly load your friends and family up with some super foods while you're at it? Strawberries and apples pack a real punch with antioxidants to protect the body. You'll get twice the Vitamin C from the kiwis than you would from oranges and the raspberries really deliver in the fiber department. Dip that chip and enjoy the fabulous flavors of summer!

Do you have a non-traditional salsa recipe that you love?

Dip That Chip Into Fresh Fruit Salsa

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Internet Marketing Explained - 2 Exposed Secrets About Internet Marketing

What If You Had Internet Marketing Explained To You With 2 Secrets?

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If you ask me, having Internet marketing explained while you have some secrets told to you is like having a cup of coffee with some bittersweet chocolate bites. Forgive me there for using food as an acronym but it really does feel like that.

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You can't expect to discover this out there in certain forums or marketing discussion boards. They probably won't even tell you outright and there is just too much discussion going on about petty little issues. Here's the big stuff.

Secret 1: It Is A Game Only For The Mentally Strong

Like it or not, everything you need about having Internet marketing explained to you lies within your mind. It is the basic psychology of persuasion at its finest! You can control the sheer will of others if you hold this mindset.

Think about copywriting, the many sales letters you have seen online. You may think they are full of hype, right? Well, yes and no because they are all letters of persuasion and you'd best learn from these words.

If you are mentally strong yourself, you could literally create a persuasive sales letter because you will have a strong enough character to learn and apply copywriting. Make full use of this secret and learn the art of persuasion.

Secret 2: Sometimes It Takes More Than A Week

Watch what happens when you plant an acorn seed into the ground? It doesn't become that mighty tree by next Tuesday. That is a fact and a process that will transform you to a big player online is time.

You can't certainly speed up time but you can shorten it a little. How? You just pour in your equal amount of effort step by step each day. Just a little endurance and persistence will get you there soon enough.

Never forget to cheer your small victories you see along the way in order to succeed. I'm not sure how you will arrange your daily schedules but make sure you are progressing each day as it passes. Carpe Diem!

A Wise Proverb

There is a verse in the 'good book' that mentions, "they shall rest after much good work". This is why having Internet marketing explained is not just a get rich quick regime. It is merely an honest work method by which you can use to attain speedy results and a different lifestyle.

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Black Friday The Pampered Chef Cutting Edge Food Chopper 2011 Deals

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Going Bananas

Despite the popular song from 1957, Yellow Bird, bananas are not grown on a tree but on a tall rigid stalk consisting of the tightly wound leaf stems. A banana plant contains no wood. Bananas are closely related to the herb, and are started from a bulb or "root eye" much like the planting of potatoes. A perennial, the banana plant bears only one bunch of fruit per year. The time from planting to harvest is from 9 to 12 months with the plant reaching heights of up to 30 feet. After the plant is chopped down, new sprouts will appear from the stumps in a matter of days in order to produce the next year's crop.

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Banana growing in Barbados and in most of the Caribbean is very labor intensive. The ground must be kept free of undergrowth; the stalks must be irrigated during the dry season, and propped up in the mature stage to prevent them from bending under the weight of the bananas; and, as the bananas near harvest time, each bunch must be covered with plastic bags to ward off the insects and to hide the sweet fruit from the birds. Bananas for export are harvested green and hard, before they mature and ripen. The difference in taste between a banana that has been "forced ripened" and one that is "picked straight away" is one of life's simple pleasures that must be experienced.

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Two men are required to harvest bananas: a chopper and a catcher. The chopper uses a machete to slice the stalk in half about waist high and, as it falls, the catcher "catches" the bunch which can weigh from 50 to 70 pounds. These bunchs are then transported to a ripening shed for local consumption or to a packing shed for export.

A local inside joke is about the occasional tourist who, mistaking a plantain for a banana, takes a bite of the plantain and recoils from the slightly bitter, raw squash taste. Plantains are twice the size of our local bananas---known colloquially as figs---and are easily distinguishable from the sweet fruit. Plantains, it should be mentioned, must be cooked like a vegetable before eating.

Going Bananas

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Delectable Cream Soups For the Whole Family

Have you ever gone to a restaurant and enjoyed incredible meals and unforgettable tasty soups? Certainly, you must have. Unfortunately, many of these great foods require too much time and preparation that most of us don't have. But, delicious cream soups made easy are possible.

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Even some cookbooks require too many steps to make these types of soups. There has got to be a better way, without having to turn to canned or prepared items. These are made with unhealthy ingredients that contain way too much sodium and fat that could be avoided.

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Made at home with all natural ingredients is the way to go. And, if you possess any choppers, mixers, food processors and the like, it can go quickly. Much of the time that goes into making cream soups has to do with chopping and mashing some of the ingredients to get a creamy consistency. Using technology, you can whip up soups in no time.

You can also reduce the calories that go into such soups by avoiding heavy cream. Of course, there will be a slight difference in taste, but it will be worth it in the the end. For example, you could easily use low fat milk instead of cream. To thicken it, use flour. And, instead of butter, there are well known alternatives that are low in fat as well.

To save time, instead of making chicken stock yourself, just purchase ready made low fat or no fat broth. Of course, that is entirely up to you. From there, the sky is the limit. You can make some slight changes and prepare soups made of celery, broccoli, mushroom, chicken and rice, and so on.

These slight changes that we mention above have to do with the fact that some herbs work well with certain foods and not so well with others. But, as you search for interesting recipes either in cookbooks or online or even in magazines, you will see which ingredients work for the particular vegetable or food you're making.

In addition to that, your experience as a cook will also play a big role in how you prepare your meals. The more experience you have, the more you know about how to enhance flavors in certain meals. Sometimes is it just trial and error, but it also has a lot to do with personal taste. For instance, some recipes may call for a certain herb that you or a family member are either allergic to or absolutely abhor. That's okay. There are alternatives.

Delectable Cream Soups For the Whole Family

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My Chinese Recipes - How to Make Chinese Spareribs

I would like to start with My Chinese Recipes first and hope they will give you some new sights from Chinese cooking.

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Try another best choice from My Chinese Recipes - 'Spareribs in Shanghai Style', a total different with US or European style of spareribs. And, also delicious!! We usually serve with noodles in soup. This recipe is famous in Shanghai dish.

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Except noodle or rice, you may consider this recipe as snack to serve with bear and soft drink in your party, or enjoy it in your picnic!

Ingredients:

1 pound pork chop

Marinade:

1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp dark soya sauce
1 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp water
1 tsp oil
1 tsp Shaoxing wine (or any Chinese cooking wine)
1/2 tsp sesame oil and little pepper

Method:

1 rinse and wipe dry pork chop
2 pound with the back of the chopper to tenderize
3 mix with marinade and set aside for 30mins - 1 hr
4 heat 2 cups of oil, lower pork chop with medium hot oil and fry until cooked

Tips:
Remember to switch to maximum hot oil before remove from pan, this can move away the excessive oil to reduce greasy and eat healthy.

TRY, YUMMY!! YUMMY!!

Another attraction, easy recipe! Just mix the marinade with ribs, best overnight or even 2 nights, and use oil to fry or just put them in oven! Your may also use this recipe on chicken, also will give you big surprise!

My Chinese Recipes - How to Make Chinese Spareribs

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How To Clean A Fish With Your Survival Knife

A Survival Knife isn't the best choice for cleaning a fish but it will perform the job when you don't have an option. If you were in a survival situation with nothing but a fish and a pair of nail clippers, you would sure as hell make it work. So a survival knife is the right tool when your choices are to use what you have or starve.

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Scale the fish

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The first order of business is to remove the scales. You will need to put the fish on a flat surface. If you're in a survival situation, you almost certainly didn't pack that deluxe master chef cutting board you purchased from that late night infomercial. So find a nice flat rock or use the ground. grip and hold the tail of the fish firmly, with the tail end close to you. Use the unsharpened or back side of your Survival Knife and scrape the scales off by scraping firmly from tail to head. Once you have the scales removed, turn the fish over and repeat the technique on the other side. A quick rinse in water will clean away any loose scales left on the fish.

Prepare for gutting

Next you need to remove the guts of the fish as cleanly as possible to prevent contamination of the flesh. You will be using the blade side of your survival knife and you need to be careful not to cut in to the intestinal tract or stomach. Get a firm grip on the fish and use your survival knife to make a cut down the length of the fishes belly while holding the fish belly side up. You can start under the jaw at or around the gills and cut towards the vent or anus of the fish, or you can start at the vent and cut towards the head. Be certain that you are only cutting deep enough to slice through the skin. You want your knife to be at a slight angle to the fish when making the cut, so that the sharp edge of the survival knife is on the outside of the fish. You don't want to make the cut with the sharp edge pushing in to the belly and you don't want the knife at a 90 degree angle when making the cut either. That would require you to have surgeon skills, like when you used to play the game "Operation" as a kid. Remember, if you cut too deep you can cut the stomach or intestines open, possibly contaminating the good flesh with fish excrement. Better to have to redo the cut than eat fish poop.

Remove the guts

Now that the skin is cut all the way down the fishes belly, grasp the fish by the head, or belly side up and reach in to the gut cavity. Then simply grab the guts and pull them out towards the vent or anus of the fish. Act like the guts are the peel of a banana. A slimy, less appealing version of a banana peel. At this point you should reach up in to the fishes gut cavity and scrape up and down the spine with your thumb or a utensil like a fork or spoon to remove the blood line or vein. Scrape until it looks clean along the spine. Another quick rinse in water will remove everything you scraped out.

Clean up

You can cut the tail and head off if you wish, or you can leave them on and make believe you are eating at a fancy french restaurant that leaves them on for the presentation effect. You can leave the skin on and make sure you clean out the gutted fish thoroughly with cold water before cooking. You should throw out the unwanted parts (head, tail and guts) away from your site so that you don't attract unwanted guests. Also, when savoring your meal, be careful not to choke on a bone. It hardly seems appropriate to use your Survival Knife to start a fire, build a shelter, catch food and fend off wild animals, only to die choking on a little fish bone because you were too famished to exercise some caution.

How To Clean A Fish With Your Survival Knife

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