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Fruit salad and fruit kebabs are on today's menu.

The equipment and ingredient list are at the end of this video.

When making a fruit salad, try to combine at least three different fruits.

Contrasting colors, sizes, shapes, and textures make the prettiest salads.

Let's start with a half

pound of grapes. Be sure to buy seedless grapes. Pips are no fun in fruit salad. Rinse them

in cold water, then cut them in half. It makes it easier to staff them with a fork. Rinse

one quart of strawberries in cold water with a sharp parry knife gently cut around the stem

and remove it. It's now officially hulled. Cut each piece

into bite size or smaller. One cantaloupe is more than enough for this fruit salad. Start

by cutting it in half. Next, using a spoon, take out all the seeds and the stringy bits. If

you have a melon baller, simply scoop out some melon by rolling the melon baller towards you.

Otherwise, the skin has to be removed from the flesh.

Place the cut side down and using a sharp knife, start peeling the skin off in a circular motion.

Once the rind is removed, make one half inch slices.

Then make each slice into cubes. This is obviously not going to be exact. Add the cantaloupe to the other fruit.

You'll need a big sharp knife to cut the skin off a pineapple.

First cut the top off, then the bottom.

Work your way around the pineapple trimming off all the skin.

Slice it and then cut it into chunks.

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