It's that time!

Summer. It's hot, It's cold. It's Colorado. Fruits and vegetables picked fresh from the local farmer's markets are one of the best ways to enjoy the summer. Plucking from your own garden's first harvests--there's nothing better!

Here is one of my most favorite summertime recipes.

Yummo Fruit Salad:

The sauce:

Two squirts (from a tube) of ginger root

2T of local honey

3T of fresh lemon juice

3T of mandarin orange juice

The zest of both, to taste.

1t poppy seeds

The fruit:

1 mango, chopped

1 banana, sliced

1 mandarin orange cut up

1/2 a pinneapple, dressed, then cut up

1 ripe pear, peeled and cut up

1 large bunch of black grapes, plucked and halved

1 pint of strawberries, sliced

2-3 kiwis, peeled and sliced

1/2 papaya, peeled and diced

1 star fruit, peeled sliced

1/2 cup freshly grated coconut (optional)

(exciting additions: Bacardi-coconut flavored, honeydew, watermelon, cantaloupe

Chill for at least 2.5 hours. Enjoy!