Aruba AribaNon Alcoholic

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup cranberry juice
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1 dash grenadine

Steps:

• Pour all ingredients into a pitcher and stir lightly Serve over ice in a tall glass with a splash of grenadine
• If you like you can garnish with a slice of orange or pineapple
• Enjoy

Fresh Pineapple Fruit Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1 whole pineapple
• 1 papaya peeled seeded and cut in chunks
• 1/4 lb seedless grapes
• 1 apple peeled cored and cut into chunks
• 1/4 cup pecans
• 1 banana sliced
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 1 lime quartered as garnish

Steps:

• Cut pineapple lengthwise into quarters
• Cut away and discard core
• Remove pineapple flesh by carefully cutting between it and the outer skin of pineapple to use the shell for a salad bowl
• Cut pineapple into chunks and combine with remaining ingredients except lime wedges in a bowl
• Gently toss and chill if desired
• Serve fruit salad in a pineapple shell topped with lime garnish

Fruit and Flower Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cantaloupe
• 1 cup fresh pineapple cubed
• 1/2 pint fresh strawberries
• 1/2 pint fresh blackberries
• 1 banana peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 cup green seedless grape
• 1 mango peeled and cubed
• 4 ounces swiss cheese
• 2 tablespoons rose water to taste
• 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 4 tablespoons mango chutney to taste
• 1/2 cup almonds toasted
• 1 cup fresh edible flower

Steps:

• Combine fruit and cheese in bowl
• Sprinkle with rosewater
• Blend yoghurt and chutney
• Pour over salad
• toss if desired
• To serve spoon individual portions and garnish with flowers

Granny Cake

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Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups mashed bananas
• 1 8 ounce can crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• powdered sugar

Steps:

• Mix flour sugar baking soda nutmeg salt and cloves; set aside
• Beat butter with mixer for 30 seconds
• Add eggs banana undrained pineapple and vanilla- Beat
• Add flour mixture
• Spread batter in greased 10 inch fluted tube pan
• Bake in 325 degree oven for 70-75 minutes
• Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes
• Remove from pan and cool completely

Hot Party Drink

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Ingredients:

• 1 1 ounce can pineapple juice Not concentrate
• 1 apple cored and sliced
• 3 -4 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 broken cinnamon sticks
• 2 orange-flavored tea bags

Steps:

• Bring juice apple brown sugar and cinnamin stick to a boil and boil for 2 minutes
• Remove from heat
• Add tea bags and steep for 2-3 minutes and then remove

Mexican Cabbage,Pineapple,Avocado Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1 medium green cabbage washed and cored
• 1 cup fresh pineapple chopped
• 1 medium avocado chopped
• 2 limes juice only
• salt to taste

Steps:

• Shred the cabbage finely
• Chop the pineapple and avocado
• Mix all ingredientstoss gentlyand serve

No Fat Carrot Raisin Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup nonfat yogurt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 cups carrots shredded
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup crushed pineapple drained

Steps:

• Combine yogurt honey cinnamon and lemon juice to make dressing
• Add the rest of the ingredients
• Chill at least 15 minutes

Otai

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Ingredients:

• 1 pineapple
• 1/4 medium watermelon
• 1 coconut fresh
• 2 tablespoons sugar more to taste
• 1 cup water

Steps:

• Grate the pineapple into a large container
• Finely chop the watermelon or scrape the melon and the juice into the pineapple
• Sprinkle with sugar
• Add the fresh coconut flesh directly to the fruit or by making a rich coconut cream from the grated coconut and adding the cream to the fruit juices
• Dilute with the water
• Chill and serve

Pineapple Ginger Beer Floats

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Ingredients:

• 1 pint pineapple sorbet
• 2 cups pineapple juice chilled
• 2 12 ounce bottles ginger beer chilled
• 1 8 ounce can crushed pineapple to top

Steps:

• Scoop 1/2 cup of pineapple sorbet into each of 4 tall glasses
• Add 1/2 cup of pineapple juice to each glass
• Pour 1/2 bottle of ginger beer into each glass
• Top each drink with 1/4 can of crushed pineapple
• Serve immediately with long straws

Pineapple Pickle Relish

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Ingredients:

• 20 ounces pineapple chunks in juice drained
• 8 ounces pineapple chunks in juice drained
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon whole cloves
• 3/4 cup apple cider vinegar

Steps:

• Combine brown and white sugars cinnamon stick cloves and apple cider vinegar in a medium saucepan
• Bring to a boil over medium heat and simmer 10 minutes
• Add both cans of drained pineapple chunks Bring to a boil again and cook 10 more minutes
• Put in jars and store in the refrigerator

Pineapple yogurt dessert

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Ingredients:

• 1 1 quart container low-fat plain yogurt plain or vanilla flavoured
• 1 package light vanilla pudding mix not prepared
• 1 20 ounce can crushed pineapple in juice

Steps:

• Mix yogurt and pudding mix
• Add pineapple
• Refrigerate for at least hour

Pineapple, Banana and Coconut Smoothie

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Ingredients:

• 1 whole pineapple peeled cored and roughly chopped
• 2 bananas peeled and roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 apple peeled cored and roughly chopped

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth
• Press through a sieve getting as much pulp through as possible to thicken the smoothie
• Serve over ice and enjoy

Troppo Ice Blocks

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Ingredients:

• pineapple
• banana
• jackfruit
• soursop
• mango
• rambutans
• lychee
• pommelo
• star fruit
• passion fruit
• guava
• papaya
• oranges or orange juice

Steps:

• Peel and core the fruits over a bowl to catch the juice
• Cut the fruit into bite-size pieces and place in the bowl
• Stir the fruit together and spoon the mixture into plastic cups until 2/3 full
• Squeeze enough oranges for the juice to cover the fruit
• Insert a wooden stick into the centre
• Freeze overnight in the freezer

Watermelon Cosmicpolitan

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Ingredients:

• 4 pieces watermelon cubes 1 inch by 1 inch
• 4 cups ice
• 1/4 cup premium vodka
• 3 tablespoons premium vodka
• 1/4 cup Cointreau liqueur
• 3 tablespoons Cointreau liqueur
• 1/4 cup grenadine
• 4 cups watermelon pureed
• 4 skewers
• 4 pieces watermelon small cubes
• 4 small pineapple chunks
• 4 small strawberries or 4 small raspberries

Steps:

• Place the frozen watermelon cube in the bottom of a chilled martini glass
• Place the ice vodka Cointreau grenadine and watermelon puree in a shaker and shake for 30 seconds
• Strain into the glass and garnish with a skewer of watermelon pineapple and strawberry

Zucchini, Pineapple, Ginger Jam Kicked up With Habanero's

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Ingredients:

• 2 lbs seeded and cubed zucchini
• 1 20 ounce can crushed pineapple
• 6 -8 habaneros
• 1 -3 ounce crystallized ginger use more if you like more kick less if you dontI myself like a lot
• 5 cups sugar
• 3 ounces of ball fruit jell liquid pectin or 3 ounces Certo liquid pectin
• 1 6 ounce box pineapple Jell-O
• food coloring Red and yellow

Steps:

• Place zucchini pineapples habaneros and crystallized ginger in a food processor and puree
• Add to a heavy bottom pot with sugar and boil for 20 minutes Thats a rolling boil
• Stirring all the while
• Add Certo and bring to a full rolling boil for 1 more minute add jello and stir to blend
• Add some red food coloring and more yellow to produce a color to your liking
• Ladle hot jam into hot jars leaving 1/4 inch head space Filling 4-1 pint jars or 8 1/2 pint jarsI like to do the 8 jars because there would be more to give as gifts Wipe rim Center lid on jar Apply band until fit is fingertip tight
• Process in a boiling water canner for 10 minutes adjusting for altitude Remove jars and cool Check lids for seal after 24 hours Lid should not flex up and down when center is pressed Label Decorate And Gift