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I sure love making myself a tasty salad.  Start off with some vibrantly healthy greens, full of chlorophyll and verdant phytonutrients, top those with a wondrous mixture of fruits and veggies (or perhaps a fungus ), dribble with some fresh juice, and season with herbs and spices.  Mmm Mmm!  I’m hungry!  What’s for dinner? None other than the…

The Tomato Mushroom Olive Salad with Lemon Pepper Dressing Recipe:

4 c of the most colorful greens you can find (look for purples, deep and light colored greens, maybe even some reds!)

3 medium tomatoes

3-4 large button mushrooms (those are the common white ones!)

1 lemon

.75 c green olives

.5 avocado (optional, remember to keep it low fat!)

.5 Tbsp black pepper

Directions:   If your greens are already bite size, then no chopping is needed.  Pat yourself on the back, you made this easy.  If not, chop up those greens so they are easy to monster your way through.  Then dice/chop/do knife-kung-fu on those tomatoes and mushrooms (and optional avocado), so that they are easily munchable.  Toss them on top of the greens in a medium salad bowl.  Next cut the lemon in half (so that the top is at an end).  Holding the lemon in one hand, and a fork in the other, jab the fork into the lemon and use a twisting motion while squeezing the lemon in order to dribble the delicious lemon juice all over the salad.  Next sprinkle the olives on top of your creation and then give the whole thing a generous pepper-storm!  And then… you’re done!  Time to monster your way through a lemon-pepper masterpiece!

Lemon Pepper Dressing!? Olive it!

Okay, I’ve been holding off on posting to this section of the blog, not knowing what to do with it.  So I’m going to keep it rather simple… if I fruitmonster up a meal based around fruits and leafy greens, it heads directly to this section of the site!  Who knows, maybe people will love these recipes, maybe they won’t.  There is only one way to find out!

So here’s the debut ‘Fruit Meal’!

Orange-Capsicum Salad Recipe:

Okay for starters, let us clear up that a ‘capsicum’ is the same thing as a ‘bell pepper’ for you northern hemisphere folk!

What you’ll need:

4 Cups Romaine/Cos Lettuce

2 Oranges

1 Capsicum/Bell Pepper – Any color will do, mine’s red!

12 dates

.5 cup Orange Juice

Directions:

First, chop up the Romaine/Cos lettuce until it is in conveniently bite-sized pieces and put it in your salad bowl.  Then, peel the orange, gut the pepper and then and chop them up into small chunks as well, adding them to the mix.  Remember a fruitmonster makes things easy on themself and doesn’t worry about the silly differences between chopping/cubing/slicing/dicing… who needs the lingo!  Just make it easy to stab with your fork and fit in your mouth (or in true monster fashion – eat with your hands!!).  Next, break up the dates (pitting them of course) into halves and sprinkle them overtop of the salad.  Finish it off with a dousing of orange juice as a dressing and WOO HOO!  Orange Capsicum Salad!

Life is Sweet… Eat that salad up!

FM

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