 extension. Today I'm going to demonstrate how to make a green salad. When we're in the kitchen and going to prepare food, the first thing we should do is wash our hands. So you will need running warm water and soap and we should scrub for at least 20 seconds. Be careful to get the wick in our fingers, the back of our hands, even up to our wrists. It might be helpful to sink the ABC a couple times or twinkle twinkle little star. You also want to make sure that your kitchen area is clean. So it's helpful to get a sink full of warm soapy water, a clean dishcloth, and wash all the area counter tops off. Now for a green salad you can use any kind of lettuce you prefer. You can use iceberg or head lettuce. You can use a red leaf or a green leaf lettuce. Today we are going to work with a type of lettuce called romaine. Romaine lettuce is a type of lettuce that's used in Caesar salads, but we can use other kinds of salad dressings as well. Now even though this lettuce may look clean, it's still very important that we rinse this under running cold water before we work with any vegetable. In our salad we're also going to use tomato and cucumber, but you could put, pick whatever your favorites are. So I'm going to use my stringer, pawinger, and I'm going to twist up to do the bullies and discard this. In my garden I'm going to be sure that each lettuce makes it clean, rotating it. The lettuce should be dried because it's really wet, and so there's a couple different ways that we can do that. One is you can place it in some kind of a container with paper towels after we let it drain for a while until the liquid is absorbed in to the paper towel, or you can use a fun kitchen equipment called a salad spinner. Some of you have maybe never seen this before, and I'm going to show you how it works. You put the clean lettuce leaves inside on the top and you pump it. This is really handy if you're growing fresh lettuce leaves in the garden, and it will spin and all the extra moisture will be pushed to the bottom. While we're waiting for that I will go ahead and rinse our cucumber and our tomato. These two need to be under running cold water. These are both coated with a wax which can help prevent them from getting mold. It can help them speak longer, but we still need to rinse them. When we work with greens it's not a bad idea to can tear it so it does not become discolored or rusty. When we use a knife this can react and cause a chemical reaction that will make the lettuce turn brown quickly. If we're going to eat the lettuce right away we can do that but if not it's not a bad idea to can tear the greens with your clean hands. Around the edges I see some darker colored parts. We can just tear off and discard the part that we don't want to use for our salad. So I'm going to take the freshly rinsed greens and tear. You can just simply tear like this or if we want to work with her we can use carefully use a knife with the supervision of an adult. Another homemade lettuce may have tougher stems down here or even discolored stems and I would recommend not using that portion because it's very tough. So don't be scared to throw the parts that are not very edible or don't throw the rest of our leaves. I'm keeping my left hand clear from the blade and making sure the people around me are nowhere near me as well to be safe. When I'm done using a knife I should put it down on the counter to keep it away from everyone. I'm going to add my greens to the bowl. Some people may want to put them into individual plates or bowls right away but for today we're going to demonstrate just making a small green salad. Okay now I'm going to grab my cucumber. You can eat the outside of the cucumber. Remember when you're eating pickles you're eating the outside but some people may find them tough or bitter so I'm going to show how we can peel the outside of the cucumber. Grabbing my garbage bowl grabbing firmly to the washed cucumber I can put the flat side of the peeler to carefully peel the skin away. I'm going to rotate and do the other side noticing that I'm peeling outward and away from myself. If you're working with full carrots that would be something else than we use a peeler. If you have baby carrots you have no need for this tool. Here's my cucumber I have to cut the end off so I'm going to cut and discard the end. Now this is round shape and it's going to be difficult to chop or cut so what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually slice the cucumber in half and then I'm going to place the flat side down on the cutting board making it easier for me to chop the cucumber safely. I then I'm going to cut it into separate pieces so then when I turn it around I can make nice chopped right size pieces like that. I sprinkle the chopped cucumber on top. I won't demonstrate the other half but I would probably put the other half of the cucumber in here if I was going to make this salad. Next is the tomato. Make sure you peel the sticker off. You can use cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes simply by just rinsing them but this is an off the vine tomato where we need to cut the end off. Again I'm going to place flat side down. I'm going to slice the tomato. I'm going to take and pivot this to get the flat side down and slice the other direction. The more you work with knives the more comfortable you get. Go slow when you're starting. When you use a knife or tomato that should have a little bit of the serration in that can help cut through the tomato. If you wouldn't want a flat surface plate the serrated end would help. We're going to do the other part of the tomato. If you don't like tomatoes even though they're very healthy for us adding like opine you can have red peppers. Tomatoes are a pretty common vegetable to add to lettuce salad. Then place the tomato on top and there we have it. Half of our plates and what we each need fruits and vegetables a lettuce salad would be a nice way to get greens at lunch time or supper. You can use tongs to serve your salad before your meal. You can use your favorite salad dressing whether that be a pina gritte, ranch, light ranch. So this is Potomac Green Salad. Thanks and see you next time. My name is Trisha Jessen with NDSU Extension and today I'm going to demonstrate how to make fruit clubs. First when they're working in the kitchen it's not a bad idea to tie your hair back. Also we should wash our hands with hand soap or you can use your dish soap and running water. It takes a good 20 seconds of warm washing to wash away all the dirt and we also want to make sure and in our kitchen countertops using warm water, dish soap and a dishcloth. You can follow along with your fruit kabob recipe and you can choose your favorite fruits which is kind of fun. And today we're going to do red, white and blue ones using strawberries. The white is going to be our banana and we have the purplish grapes. We also have to make sure that those are kept cold before we use them and I would suggest washing the strawberries right before you arrange the kabobs. Otherwise the strawberries could get rather slimy and we want them to be nice and fresh. So I'm going to take and rinse a few of the strawberries under cold running water making sure to get underneath the stem with all of the dirt and particles off. We don't use soap or bleach when we rinse through the vegetables and then I will place these into a hole to set aside. I'm also going to wash the banana and this can seem kind of silly but when we touch the banana peel it can also spread the germs to our hands. So I'm going to rinse the banana under the water and the grapes. It'll be nice to find nice large grapes so they can sit on the kabob without falling apart. Get them a nice rinse. When it comes to the kabobs we have a wide variety depending on what you find in the store. Here's a skewer, here's a skewer and here's a skewer so you can find whichever one you would like to use. Today I'm going to use the medium-sized one. You also if you are working with melon you would want to use a fruit or vegetable scrubber to try to get the outside rind clean and the size of your knife is going to depend on the fruit that you use. Today I don't have to use the large knife because I'm not cutting watermelon or anything large. I can get by with a small knife like this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this into chunks. First peel the banana and I'm going to cut this into chunks this size. I'm also going to cut the stems off the strawberries. Being careful not to waste too much. If there are really large strawberries not a bad idea to halve them as well. I'll keep this hand out of the way, for safety. Also if fruit rocks on you it's not a bad idea to make a little flat surface so it's easier to cut and the grapes are easiest yet. I'm just going to pluck them from the stem into the bowl like this. Now for arranging the skewers fruits and vegetables are extremely healthy for us and if you can see on the shoulder board right here half of our plate should be made up of fruits and vegetables. In the area of fruit they give us tons of vitamin seed which can help cuts and bruises heal. They also give us fiber which we've heard help eat jobs that that does and so we are going to make these colorful kebabs now. I'm going to start with my strawberry careful not to poke my fingers. I'm going to next go to the white banana purple grape and I've made these at home before I sometimes put cheese in between them so then I have some dairy in there too and it gives a nice variety. If you find your strawberry pieces are too large don't be scared to cut them one more time. There we have it our first fruit kebab. We can put this on a plate or a platter if we're not going to get right away we can also store them again on ziplock baby. I don't have any of those with me right now but I could use saran wrap to wrap these around because we need to be careful in store. Cut up fruits and vegetables in the fridge within two hours for safety. Have fun making your fruit kebabs. See you next time.