Last Minute Memorial Day Recipe: Mojito Marinated Fruit

Hey Silver Springers!

If you enjoyed the maple ribs recipe and the blt dip, today's dish will be sure to fulfill your high expectations. Silver Spring Patch delivers the goods with help from the magazine Taste of Home. The magazine publishes recipes from people who love to cook at home and they do it with easy-to-find ingredients.

Today, we are serving up a Mojito Marinated Fruit recipe courtesy of Marcy Griffith of Excelsior, Minnesota.

This party treat should take about 20 minutes to prepare plus additional chilling time.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of lime juice
• 1 teaspoon of grated lime peel
• 2 cups each of cantaloupe, honeydew and seedless watermelon balls
• 2 cups of cubed fresh pineapple
• 3 mint sprigs
• Mint sprigs are optional

Directions:

• In a small saucepan, combine sugar and water. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat. Stir in the rum, lime juice and peel. Cool.
• In a large bowl, combine the melon, pineapple and mint. Add marinade; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• Discard mint. Spoon fruit with syrup into serving cups. Garnish with additional mint if desired.
  
• Yield: 10 servings.