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For patriotic holidays,  a simple summer fruit salad of red and blue fruit like strawberries or watermelon with blue berries or black berries is very popular. Add bananas and you have red, white, and blue. Toss with a honey lime dressing and it’s so good. The lime juice keeps the banana slices from turning brown. It’s so easy to make that it’s hard to call it a recipe. It’s very visually appealing for Memorial Day or 4th of July.

For the last month, central Florida has firmly moved into hot, humid summer. Yesterday’s high temperature was 94 degrees F with a heat index of 104 degrees F. Similar highs are expected for the next week.

Now is a great time to celebrate fresh green flavors. One of the finest is fresh peas. Sweet and bright when fresh either in the pod or shelled, they are often taken for granted. If you can’t find fresh peas, feel free to substitute frozen peas. They’re picked at the peak of freshness, and they thaw so quickly. Toss them into a recipe as easily as if they were fresh.

Brimming with fresh spring flavor, today’s salad starts with fresh sugar snap or snow peas. Mixed with green peas, and wheatberries, the salad is then tossed with fresh radishes and green onions. If you’d prefer you could always drop the green peas and use both sugar snap and snow peas. Fresh dill and lemon vinaigrette dressing is the final addition.