A Sweet and Spicy Fruit Salad

• ½ lg. ripe mango
• ⅔c organic craisins
• ½ sm. ripe cantaloupe 
• 2c frozen strawberries, sweet & sour cherries, blueberries
• 1-2T jalapeño pepper jelly
• ⅓ lemon - juiced
• 1t± Orange Ginger spice blend

Cut the fruit the way you like it.  Gently mix the jelly and lemon juice in a medium glass bowl with the frozen cut fruit.  Microwave for 30 seconds, add the rest of the fruit, toss, let stand on the counter a half hour tossing several times, then serve.  This will 3 big or 6 smaller servings.  Today, with cottage cheese and Norweigan crisp bread, it's breakfast for me 😊

The mango seed is shown in the first picture, soaking in the little glass of water.  They're hard to get out of the fruit, but much easier when it's ripe.  It's incased in a hard fibers shell.  I split that open, and now, once it's soaked a while, I'll peel off the rest of that papery covering and plant it in hopes of getting a gorgeous plant.  They don't bear fruit, or maybe they will if you can keep them alive several years.  My daughter had a gorgeous mango plant many years ago.

I call it. . .Garbage Gardening 😁 Lin