Summer Fruit Salad / #OurFamilyTable

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I love summer, but I can easily get overheated when the high temperatures hit! Once this happens, the last thing I want to do is prepare a meal, and I lose my enthusiasm for grilling.

When the hottest part of summer comes around, salads are on the menu quite a bit. I often grill chicken or steak for salads early in the morning to avoid the afternoon heat, and use it later in the day, for lunch or dinner.

But today I decided on a Summer Fruit Salad! I included a few things you won't find in the traditional fruit salad, but I know you will love them.

All the ingredients I used are easy to find, easy to work with, and they taste delicious!

Summer Fruit Salad

(printable recipe at end of page)

1/2 cup Heavy Duty Whipping Cream

1 tablespoon Granulated Sugar

1/2 teaspoons Vanilla Flavoring

Blueberries

Cantaloupe

Mango

Apple

Orange

Bananas

Strawberries

Peach

Light Vanilla Yoplait Yogurt

Sweet Hawaiian Mini Flour Tortillas

Choose any fruit you want to use. More colorful fruit will make the plate prettier and more appetizing.

Pour the heavy whipping cream into a medium sized bowl. Add the sugar and vanilla.

 

Mix together on medium until the cream thickens and becomes whipped cream.

Wash all of the fruit before cutting it. When cutting the fruit, the important thing to remember is to make it easy to eat. One way to do that is to cut it in small bite sized pieces. You can see that the strawberries and the blueberries were not cut, but you could cut the stems off the strawberries if you wanted to.

One of the small bowls contains the whipped cream and the other one has light vanilla yogurt in it. I also included a few mini tortillas, which are the perfect addition to this plate! They can be filled with your favorite fruit and topped with a bit of whipped cream or fill them with a little bit of each fruit and add a spoonful of yogurt for a fun and tasty treat! They are a favorite for kids!

There you have it! Simple, tasty and good for you! 

Thank you for joining me today! Here is a list of more "Beat the Heat" recipes to enjoy! Don't they sound amazing?!!

Beat the Heat Recipes

• Best Tomato Sandwich from Palatable Pastime
• Calypso Carribean Cobb Salad from A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures
• Hezzi-D Club Sandwich from Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
• Keto Caprese Wrap from Magical Ingredients
• Mediterranean Chopped Salad in Pitas from Jen Around the World
• Shrimp Ceviche with Pickled Onion from Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Strawberry, Rhubarb, & Pear Salad from The Spiffy Cookie
• Summer Fruit Salad from The Freshman Cook
• Watermelon Salad with Feta and Mint from Books n' Cooks
• White Gazpacho from That Recipe

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Orange Cream Tart

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Happy Labor Day Weekend to everyone! I hope your celebrations are full of fun and relaxation!! Today I shared my Orange Cream Tart with Mindie at Bacon Time with the Hungry Hypo. Pop on over and see how to make this yummy, tasty ode to the last days of summer!

Orange Cream Tart  

 This tart is refreshing and simple to make. You could also 

substitute lemon for the orange, or key lime too!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Orange Creamsicle Mini Tarts

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It's reveal day for Club Baked !! This time around we made the Orange Creamsicle Tart from the book we are baking from; Baked Explorations, written by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. I just love this tart. I think this is only the second time I have made a tart, the first time being many moons ago! I decided to go with mini tarts because I didn't have a tart pan, and when I went to buy one, the mini pans were just sitting there, begging me to take them home!! They are just so cute!!  Besides, the smaller size is more practical for me, and I hope to make them again.
This recipe was not difficult, but it was time consuming. Definitely not something you can just whip together. It takes a lot of time for the filling to set up, and chill, and then chill again. Very hands on. The dough has to chill, bake, bake again, and cool. Not hard, but not the treat to make when you don 't have a lot of time. But when you do have some time, it is definitely worth the effort!

Orange Creamsicle Tart

Our hostess for the creamsicle tart is 

Jenn from Baked:Who Wants The Yum Yums?

Visit her blog to get the complete recipe.

I creamed,

and mixed,

rolled out,

and chilled.

I pressed,

and baked,

cooled,

and coated.

Then I beat,

and decorated,

and decorated again.

This was delicious and fun!

Interested in what everyone had to say about the 

Orange Creamsicle Tart?

Stop by Club Baked and see how their tarts turned out!

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