Recipe #25: Easy-peasy Fruit Dip

I hesitate to even call this a recipe, but it's my blog and I can do what I want (haha). This is so good on a hot day (say, Memorial Day, for example) and takes about 2 minutes to make. It's easy, delicious and if you make it with fat-free yogurt and sugar-free or light Cool Whip, healthy!

I first had this at my aunt's house during a party and assumed from the taste that it was a complicated cream-based dip. Nope. You need three ingredients, and you arrive at perfectly creamy, mousse-like fruity deliciousness!



Easy-peasy Fruit Dip
Prep time: 2 minutes

1 4-ounce container of strawberry yogurt
1 8-ounce container of Cool Whip
1 16-ounce container of fresh strawberries

Remove stems/leaves from strawberries. Halve if desired.

Scoop Cool Whip into a mixing bowl. Mix in container of yogurt, using half the container at a time.



Mix until completely blended -- the cream will have a mousse-like texture, and have a slight pink hue to it (great for bridal showers!).





Serve with strawberries.

Apple picking with family

We decided since this weekend was beautiful -- 65-70 degrees and extra sunny -- to take our two-month old apple picking. My parents also came with us and we had a blast, in part because we didn't go last year and I hadn't been with my parents since I was a little kid. We took turns holding the baby and picking apples, and took home about two pounds of Macintosh apples from Holmberg Orchards in Gales Ferry, Connecticut.

If you're planning to go out and pick apples before the season's up, head out soon. Many of what you may find are drops (apples that have already hit the ground), but just as good as long as there aren't any signs of rot or worm holes (obviously).

In some places, there may also be some raspberry crop left though we weren't able to find much in the way of ripe fruit.

We did also see nectarines, pears and peaches, as well as grape tomatoes.

I'll also be posting a recipe made with the apples that we picked in the next post (coming in a few minutes), but for now figured I'd share some of our pictures. It was a beautiful day to "pick your own!"

The pictures are pretty self explanatory. The people in them are myself, my husband, and my parents. And baby Johnny, of course.

To find your local spots for "pick your own" apples, pumpkins, corn stalks, raspberries and all the other in-season fruits and vegetables, visit http://www.pickyourown.org!