Apples

Wash your choice of apples, we like Granny Smith, Fuji, or Cripps Pink, with Purely Essential Fruit and Vegetable Wash.  Washing is not only a healthy habit, but will also help remove the wax from the surface of the apple, helping the caramel or chocolate to adhere to the skin of the apple.  Use scrub brush if needed.

Core and slice the apples.  Do NOT peel off the skin.

Soak in lemon juice solution (1 cup lemon juice to 1 quart water) for 10 minutes, turning apples over to make sure solution covers all flesh of apple.

Drain and pat dry.

Skewer apples on lollipop sticks

Place in refrigerator until you are ready to dip

Caramel Dip

1lb pkg caramels

3/4 c. half and half

In a microwave safe bowl unwrap all caramels, pour half and half over caramels, microwave for 2 minutes, stir, and then continue to heat 30 seconds at a time until caramel is smooth.  Allow to cool to room temperature.

Toppings

The sky is the limit here.  You can use any combination that strikes your taste bud’s fancy.  Crushed pretzels, nonpareil sprinkles, mini m&m’s, mini marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar and cinnamon, or whatever your guilty pleasure.

Here are a few suggestions:

1/2 cup crushed peanuts

1/2 cup crushed toffee bits

1/2 cup coconut flakes

Use a muffin tin to hold the toppings, use paper muffin liners to make clean-up that much easier.

Milk Chocolate Dip

In microwave safe bowl add 10oz Melting Milk Chocolate, melt chocolate on 50% power for 2-3 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.  Do not skip this step.  If you microwave chocolate for longer than 30 seconds you will risk burning your chocolate.

White Chocolate Dip

In a clean microwave safe bowl, repeat the steps used for the milk chocolate, using 10oz Melting White Chocolate.

Let The Dipping Begin

Dip the apple in the dip of your choice (caramel, chocolate, or white chocolate), coat with  toppings, then place on waxed paper….or eat!

Fun combos:

Dipped caramel apple coated with peanuts

Dipped milk chocolate apple coated with coconut

Dipped white chocolate apple coated with toffee bits

Again, your only limitation is your imagination.

ENJOY!

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 lbs pork shoulder cut into thin 1/2 inch strips or cubes

Salt and Pepper

3 garlic cloves, finely chopped

1 tsp ground cuming

1 tsp dried oregano

1 Tomato chopped

Butter Lettuce

Chopped red pepper

Shredded iceberg lettuce

Chopped cilantro

Favorite salsa

DIRECTIONS

In a zippered bag, or baking dish with lid, season the pork generously with salt and pepper.  Add the garlic, cumin, and oregano, mix well.  Rub seasoning into pork.  Let marinate for an hour, or refrigerate overnight.

Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat.  Add meat and let sizzle, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned and cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes.  Remove from heat, and let rest 5 minutes.

To serve – spoon pork mixture into leaf of butter lettuce, taco-style.  Add chopped tomato, red pepper, lettuce, and cilantro.  Spoon favorite salsa over the top, and enjoy.

Ingredients

• 4 large zucchinis
• 1/2 cup favorite salsa
• 3/4 lb. ground beef, browned
• 1 Tbsp minced onion
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 4 oz. tomato sauce
• 1 small red bell pepper, washed, seeded and diced
• 1/2 Tbsp chili powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp onion powder
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Sliced green onion, chopped cilantro, as garnish

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Wash produce with Purely Essential Fruit and Vegetable Wash
• Slice the zucchini, lengthwise and then drop into the boiling water for 2 minutes. Remove carefully with tongs and place on towel to dry. Add the salsa to the bottom of a 9×13-inch glass baking dish and nestle the zucchini into the dish.
• If necessary, brown the ground beef with the minced onion and garlic powder. Drain and return to the pan. Stir in the tomato sauce, diced bell pepper, chili powder, ground cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper to taste. Bring to simmer, remove from heat.
• Once the zucchini has cooled to touch, use a spoon or melon baller to remove the core of the zucchini.
• Spoon the taco meat into the zucchini
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.
• Sprinkle with cilantro & green onion garnish
• ENJOY!

Sadly, we are eating ONLY 1.7 servings per day of fruits and vegetables, instead of the recommended eight.  Current research shows us that our children’s generation especially, is evolving, we see it beginning to take shape in the way society’s eating habits are indeed changing.  Millennial and Gen Z generations will be transforming the produce aisle by healthier eating, changing lifestyles, and eating more fruits and vegetables.

Healthcare experts, including the American Medical Association, recommend that we eat 3 to 5 servings of vegetables and 2 to 4 servings of fruit daily. However, fruits and vegetables can pose their own healthcare risk. That’s because the produce we consume often travel for thousands of miles before it reaches our local supermarket. Dirt and other contaminants like waxes, fungicides, pesticides and chemicals are along for the ride. Even organic produce at the local farmer’s market has been exposed to dirt, insects and human hands.

How can you get the vitamins and minerals that nature intended without any ill effects? Rinsing your produce with water alone simply isn’t enough. Wash away the contaminants (and the worry) with Purely Essential Fruit and Vegetable Wash, the original produce cleanser trusted round the world.

Purely Essential removes nearly 400% more dirt and contaminants than water alone. It is a specifically formulated non-toxic soap that is designed to remove unwanted contaminants from the surface of produce. Naturally based surfactants (cleansing agents) attach to oil-based residues from chemicals/pesticides and breaks through their molecular structures. Purely Essential then dissolves these chemicals while simultaneously lifting unwanted contaminants off the produce so they can be easily rinsed away, leaving no sudsy aftertaste. Wash, not rinse. Your health is worth it.

Purely Essential Fruit and Vegetable Wash (formerly Environné) has been a trusted household name since 1987. Our name has changed, but our commitment to quality and to your family’s health is stronger than ever.

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