Rubik Cube Fruit Salad
We're in the midst of a real hot and humid summer here in the sub tropical coastal city of Durban, South Africa, so I decided to make something real cool and summery for #FruitsAndVeggiesMonday, a Rubik Cube Fruit Salad, inspired by one of our local supermarkets's fresh produce adverts, not my design at all!
Cutting fruit into equal sized perfect squares proved to be more difficult than I thought at first, but I started so had to see it through to the sweet...sorry... bitter end.
I was left with a ton of off-cuts but made a really delicious smoothie with that, all I added was a little unsweetened Almond Milk, absolutely yum!
A huge thank you to @lenasveganliving and @plantstoplanks for getting the Steemit vegan foodies to show the rest of us just how exciting vegan cooking really is!
I've been making sandwiches for @jaybird's Steemit Sandwich Contest for just over a year already and you've all been inspiring me to start attempting some vegan sandwiches, and must say I've been really surprised at what one can do when you think a little further than just ham & cheese, so #FruitsAndVeggiesMonday has been quite an education for this old gal :)
No cooking with this entry though, as I said it's really been steemin' hot here!
No real recipe, all it took was cutting 27 equally sized fruit squares and packing them to resemble a Rubik Cube, anyone remember those toys? I felt like a child again playing with building blocks ;)
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INGREDIENTS
- Watermelon
- Cantaloupe melon known as Spanspek locally
- Mangoes
- Pineapple
- Pomegranate & mint leaves
The avocados were too small so hubby confiscated both and ate them au naturale ;)
I was curious about the origin of that funny word Spanspek and came across a lovely little story about how it was inspired by a Spanish gal, Lady Juana Maria Smith who loved having Cantaloupe for breakfast but her husband only ever wanted Bacon.
Legend has it that Cantaloupe soon became known as Spanish Bacon in this household, translated into Afrikaans as Spanspek. This beloved couple's really sweet love story can be read here.
I wonder if Lady Juana was perhaps a vegan at heart?
Once I started packing this Rubik Cube, there was no stopping to take pics in between, but it's quite simply a case of packing alternating fruit into 3 layers of 9 cubes.
I actually thought of aborting this when I first started forming the cube, but it did not look too shabby in the end ;)
Pomegranate and mint leaves finished it off nicely.
I could not waste all the off-cuts so it was a debate about whether to make a smoothie or to juice it all, but the smoothie won the day.
Fruit off-cuts and a little unsweetened Almond Milk all went into the blender.
My faithful old blender is due for a trade-in soon as it's showing some wear and tear in the base of the blender but still works like a bomb!
Thick and creamy Fruit smoothie
Topped with pomegranates
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Welcome to the community @lizelle! This is absolutely beautiful....I would eat this in one sitting , lol Very clever I must say...and that smoothie , mmmmmmm
Thank you so much @birdsinparadise, we're really fortunate to have such lovely fruits at the moment! I always sit on the outside looking at all the #fruitsandveggies entries so thought it's high time I joined in the fun :)
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Mmmm! Look at all that fruit!!
I bet making pineapple slices square was a challenge! Im glad you stuck with it though! It came out really pretty!
Thank you @squishysquid, the only easy fruit was the watermelon, I'm also glad I perservered :)
That looks just awesome! I wouldn't be surprise to see that you would create a Jenga type dessert game. If someone can pull that, it's going to be you, I am sure!
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Congrats winning the fruitsandveggiesmonday competition. I absolutely love the rubiks cube and mixing that design into a fruit salad is brilliant.
Great idea and fully deserved win !
Ah thank you so very much @byebyehamburgers, I was very pleased with how it turned out in the end:)
Delicious
ahahaha, a Rubics cube, lol. You are really incredible! How did you think of this? You creativity in the kitchen is simply amazing, wow!
It wasn't my design, saw it in a fresh produce ad so decided to give it a go ;) I really thought it was going to be a massive flop once I started! Thank you so much @zen-art!
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Oh my goodness Lizelle , this is a masterpiece!!! So creative, beautiful, and flavorful! I absolutely love it. And you took so many amazing photos too and wrote such a lovely story. I am just little jealous about your hot weather there, lol. Here in Canada is freezing cold. Well done my Dear 🍉🍑🌿🍍🍊
Ah thank you so much for the contest and the lovely feedback @lenasveganliving! I really was not sure that this was going to work out once I started, glad I perservered, it looked so pretty in the end! We're fortunate to have such an abundance of fresh produce here!
We really could do with cooler weather but not the extreme cold you're experiencing!