RE: wanted: fruit salad with kefir dressing-Heidi

[Guest guest]

Hi---

What is kefir cream? I take it that it's not the same thing as regular kefir.

How do you make it? What sweetener do you add to the kefir cream for the fruit

salad recipe?

Excuse my ignorance, but what are cukes and are they in regular grocery stores?

Thanks,

Jafa

Heidi Schuppenhauer <heidis@...> wrote:

>I was hoping someone would have a fruit salad recipe with a kefir

>dressing that can be made ahead or maybe the day before Thanksgiving.

>Thanks,

>

>~Del

I just use it instead of mayo in the traditional dressings. It

feels a lot safer -- I gave me food poisoning once with

Waldorf salad and plain mayo, but kefir-salad is impervious,

I think.

Waldorf salad is my favorite:

Dice some apples

Roast some chopped nuts

Toss in some grapes, or raisins

Add pinapple or other fruit, if you want

Toss with kefir, salt (you can add yogurt too, if

you want, and spices like cardamom if you

are in the mood).

Kefir cream goes over well with everyone I've

tried it on (we have mostly conventional-food

eaters as guests). If you mix kefir cream with

chopped cukes, cayenne, raw chopped garlic, salt, and

a little lemon juice, you get tzaziki, which is the

most addictive stuff on earth (one person said --

" Chicken is just an excuse to eat tzaziki " ). But

it isn't very traditional for Thanksgiving, unless

maybe you are Lebanese.

If you serve kefir cream as a side to a baked

potato though, most folks will just think it

is " sour cream " -- good quality sour cream --

and you don't have to " sneak " it at all.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

Jafa-

>What is kefir cream? I take it that it's not the same thing as regular

>kefir. How do you make it?

It's just heavy cream that's been fermented with kefir grains, that's all.

>Excuse my ignorance,

Never! ;->

>but what are cukes and are they in regular grocery stores?

Cucumbers. And tsatsiki is a particularly delicious use of them, too.

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