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Brunch/ RECIPES/ Sides

Fruit Salad With Honey Lime Glaze

Honey lime glaze for fruit salad

 This Honey Lime Glaze is the perfect go-to recipe to make your fruit shine–literally!  I love taking a fresh fruit salad to a party, and this glaze keeps it just sweet enough and moistened.  It allows the fruit to show off its beautiful texture, color and flavor.

 

Fruit salad

 

Fruit Salad With Honey & Lime Glaze
Prep Time
10 mins
Total Time
10 mins
 

Inspired by Oh! You Cook!

Recipe Type: Brunch
Servings: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 pt. container strawberries
  • 1 pt. container blueberries
  • bunch seedless grapes (about 1 1/2 lbs. - green, red or a mixture of both)
  • 3 clementines (or an orange)
Lime Glaze
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 2 Tbls lime juice (about 2 limes)
  • zest from 1 lime
Instructions
  1. Rinse strawberries, blueberries and grapes.
  2. Gently pat dry the fruit.  Hull strawberries, then cut each in half; if large, cut into quarters.
  3. Remove stems from blueberries, if any.
  4. Remove grapes from stems.
  5. Peel & separate clementines. (or peel and chop orange)Gently combine  all three in a large bowl or aluminum tray.  Set aside.
  6. In a small bowl, whisk together honey and lime juice.  Pour over fruit.
HEALTH/ How-Tos/ Natural Products/ RECIPES

Homemade & Healthy Lavender Lime Body Spray

We are thrilled to be welcoming Kendra as our new Natural & Homemade Contributor here at New Nostalgia.  Kendra will be here one Saturday a month sharing her knowledge of all things natural. 
Kendra blogs at Our Homemade Happiness and writes about all things homemade, especially cleaners, skincare & healthy eating.  
Kendra Drake
Kendra Drake
Natural & Homemade Contributor
Kendra started her blog after her husband suffered from mono symptoms for over two years and his blood results showed some liver disease.  Since the liver is responsible for filtering out chemicals and toxins from the bloodstream, she started to realize how many chemicals are in everything we buy, from processed food to household cleaners, lotion, and even air freshener.  She has become inspired to rid her home of as many chemicals as she can, one product at a time, and write about it along the way.
You will love Kendra & all the great things she has to share! 
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essential oils

I LOVE essential oils. They are all-natural, they have medicinal and therapeutic benefits, there are so many ways to use them, they don’t go rancid, their little bottles are so cute . . .ahem, I digress. Even though they might seem expensive, they are super concentrated and a little goes a very long way.

 So today I’m going to show you how to make a super simple body spray with essential oils. You’ll save money by making your own, but that isn’t even the best part. The best part is you will smell good without all the nasty chemicals in commercial body spray. You will know exactly what’s being absorbed into your skin and inhaled into your lungs.

  lavender lime body spray
 

what you need
 spray bottle
2 Tbsp vodka or water
3 drops lavender essential oil
8 drops lime essential oil

  directions
 Add vodka or water to the spray bottle.  If you use water, you’ll need to shake really well before each use because essential oils do not dissolve in water.  I bought my 2 oz. glass spray bottle at Sprouts, a health food store, for about $3.  Add essential oils.  I don’t really like the smell of lavender by itself, but when it is mixed with lime it becomes light and fresh and smells oh so good.  

Avoid direct use on skin that will be exposed to sunlight within 12 hours. Lime essential oil is photosensitive, meaning when it is left on skin and exposed to sunlight, it can cause the sun’s effect to be greatly magnified.  So I only use this body spray on my clothing or on parts of my body that aren’t going to be exposed to the sun. 
 


   homemade body spray ingredients

cost savings

$2.00/oz Bath & Body Works Fragrance Mist [$6/3 oz] 
  $1.10/oz Homemade Lavender Lime Body Spray

$0.46 dōTERRA Lime Essential Oil [$17.33/15 ml] $0.28 dōTERRA Lavender Essential Oil [$28/15 ml] $0.36 vodka [$9/750 mL] or $0 for water

You can find quality essential oils at dōTERRA  


Drinks/ RECIPES

Fresh Lime Soda

Boy oh Boy oh Boy!  I’m so excited about this recipe for Fresh Lime Soda!  It is SO refreshing and delicious.  This would be perfect on a hot summer day, or frankly, ANY day!  I love finding delicious  recipes that are great substitutes for things that are not so good for us, like regular soda.

The original recipe calls for homemade simple syrup, but I used Organic Raw Agave Nectar.  It gives it a tea color, but makes it so good!  I think its quite a pretty drink!  I’m eager to serve it to my friends who visit. It is the perfect ‘sit in the sunporch and sip’ type of beverage, and I intend to do just that!

Fresh Lime Soda

2 Tablespoons Organic Raw Agave Nectar (or maple syrup, or simple syrup)

Slice of Lime

2 Tablespoons Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice (about one medium sized lime)

3/4 Cup Sparkling Water

Pinch of salt

Ice

Put ice in jar.  Add agave or syrup, lime juice and water.  Put lid on and shake until well blended.  Add lime slice and enjoy!

 

In A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food (Oxford University Press, 1998), author K. T. Achaya says that fresh lime soda was “the supreme quencher of colonial thirst” in India.


I totally agree with K.T. Achaya!

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