Do-It-Yourself

Fresh fruit is so much better than canned in the summer. Making a salad? Don't buy canned fruit! Make citrus fruit sumpremes! Slice the ends of the fruit off (like the round piece pictured above). Set the fruit down on the cutting board and peel the skin down with your paring knife leaving the flesh exposed. You're undressing your fruit! Next, slice out each piece of citrus between the papery, tough dividers between the fruit. Now you have something similar to mandarin oranges out of a can, but you have made them yourself and they are fresh as fresh can be!