For your Easter weekend try this Duck with FruitFast cherry cinnamon sauce.  It makes the perfect entrée with the dueling flavors of sweet and sour pairing playfully with the poultry.

Ingredients:

2          duck breasts
2          Tbsp FruitFast Cherry Juice Concentrate
1/2      tsp cinnamon
1          tsp sugar
1          Tbsp butter
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

To prepare the duck, sprinkle the fat side with salt and let sit on a paper towel in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Score the fat and set the duck (fat side down) in a cold pan over high heat.
Cook until the fat has browned (approx 5-6 minutes), flip over and cook another 4-5 minutes (for medium-rare).

Remove the duck breasts and let sit for 5-10 minutes before slicing.

Add water to the FruitFast cherry juice concentrate to make 1/2 cup cherry juice.
Pour out half of the rendered fat in the pan and add the cinnamon, sugar, cherry juice, and a little salt.

Reduce the sauce by half and whisk in the butter.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Strain the sauce as desired.

Servings: 2

I still refer to my bookshelf of cookbooks on a regular basis, but finding new culinary tips, sharing recipes and discussing alternative ingredients is so easy and quick, thanks to the computer.

Case in point is FruitFast’s new collaboration with Ann, a gourmet chef at momgateway.blogspot.com. Ann, a scientist by training, publishes a blog dedicated to healthy foods and healthful ways to consume them.

She is impressed with FruitFast products and features several prominently this month in her specially concocted recipes.  Be sure to visit her site for the fruit sushi recipe, Cherry Coconut Cream Gelee and the entrée, Roasted Lamb with Mixed Berry Sauce, using FruitFast Liquids.

Momgateway.blogspot.com is sponsoring a giveaway of FruitFast products.  Enter to win – it’s free and easy – and the selected winner receives three FruitFast products of their choice.

The deadline to enter is March 28, 2010.

Here’s a FruitFast snack that’s easy and nutritious and requires no baking.   Just choose your favorite variety of granola and CherryFlex, Mixed Berry or Pomegranate Liquid Fruit Supplements.  So simple that pre-schoolers, grandkids and teens can mix it, freeze it and enjoy it.

Ingredients:
1/2 medium-size banana
1/4 cup chunky peanut butter
1 cup unsweetened Nature’s Hand Granola
1 Tbsp FruitFast Liquid Fruit Supplement

Mix and mash all four ingredients in a bowl.  Spoon onto a sheet of wax paper.  Roll it up into a hot dog/cigar shape.  Place in the freezer for about 90 minutes.

Remove from freezer and cut into small bites or eat whole as a tasty frozen snack. Or throw it in the microwave for 10 seconds.

Serves 2