Fruit Salad

There is nothing better than a fresh salad on a hot summer day.  You can sit outside under a shade tree and eat salad and drink iced tea to cool off.  When I was a child my mother made only one kind of fruit salad.  I love everything in the salad except the mayonnaise!  I would eat the salad but I sure did not think the mayonnaise did it any justice.  When I married and left home I made my own version of fruit salad and I must admit it is delicious!  It has calories though.  One small issue.  But delightful none the less.
Here is my recipe!

Fruit salad recipe:

• 1 Can fruit cocktail
• 1 Small carton whipping cream
• Bunch of grapes
• 1 chopped apple
• 2 Sliced bananas
• 1 Small can Mandarin orange 
• 1 Small can pineapple tidbits
• 1/2 Strawberries
• Small pkg coconut
• 1 cup pecans or just garnish each serving like I did.
• 1 t Vanilla
• Marsh mellows opitional "I forgot to add them" 
• Cherries for garnish
• Sweeten to taste

Whip the whipping cream and vanilla with a mixer for 2 minutes.
Slowly add the sugar.
Mix  until small peaks form.
Put it in the fridge until the fruit is mixed.

Add to large mixing bowl:

1 Can Fruit cocktail
1 Can pineapple
1 Can mandarin oranges 
1 Cup grapes
1 Chopped  apple
2 Sliced bananas
1/2 Cup Sliced strawberries
1 Cup pecans
2 Cups marshmallows
1 Cup coconut

I hope this recipe will become one of your families favorite.  We have it at Thanksgiving every year.  I never did tell my mother I did not like her fruit salad.  Thank you for stopping by and do have a very pleasant day!

Sunshiine