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Beautiful Fruit Plates and Fruit Salads

Fresh pineapple, kiwi, banana, raspberries, mango, mandarin, blueberries and strawberries Nothing better than a colourful fruit plate for breakfast, dessert, or snack!  Berry fruit salad: strawberries, blueberries and raspberries Tropical fruit salads: pineapple, banana, mango and kiwi Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©

Pineapple and mint flavoured water

Just an idea for a healthy drink. Instead of juices or sweet stuff I like to put fruit in water, and then store it in the fridge. Refreshing and no calories!! Pineapple and mint is a good combo, although I leave the mint in only for a couple of hours (I think that my garden mint is particularly strong...). And it looks good too! Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©

Pineapple Agar Agar Jellies

We all know of the  enzymes of certain raw fruit (pineapple, papaya, kiwi etc) that won't make jelly, or agar agar, set. And also that cooking the fruit first will stop the problem. Or using canned fruit!  But the only canned fruit I use is mango pulp (to make  mango agar agar pudding , in fact) and I was just wondering... wondering... if the  Fresh As  pineapple powder, having been freeze dried, would still have those enzymes... so I tried. I used 500ml of water, boiled it and added 1 tsp of sugar, 1 tbsp of  Fresh As  pineapple powder and 1 level tsp of agar agar. I simmered everything for one minute and then poured it into 4 individual jelly moulds. I used these colorful ones, when the agar is set you just remove the lid at the bottom and they should pop down. Should. We actually shook them a bit! The pineapple puddings were fresh and fragrant, not too sweet (the sugar ratio was perfect) and I liked the flavor, although my husband and t...

How to make Nama Choco, and with different fruit flavors

Nama choco are my favourite Japanese chocolates, to make them I followed  this  recipe from talented blogger Nami of  Just One Cookbook . Basically it is the same recipe for chocolate ganache: two parts good quality chocolate to one part of cream, and this time I used Whittakers  Dark Cacao  62%. Brake the chocolate with a knife and then melt with the cream over a pot of water at  Bain Marie . Pour into a rectangular/square container, smooth the top and refrigerate. When set cut with a warm knife, rinsing the knife in hot water and drying it between each cut. Yum, the chocolates already look yummy as they are!! At this stage you should dust them with cocoa, but after doing that I added some colour. Mostly I used  Fresh As  powders: passion fruit, pineapple, strawberry and blackcurrant. Then I used some  Fresh As  dried blueberries slices, and some spirulina powder (green tea would go well too!). So all the col...

Tropical Smoothie

1 ripe mango, 1 large banana (or 2 small ones), 500 ml pineapple juice, blend everything and then serve with a slice of papaya. Serves 4. Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©