There are so many different ways but we each have our favorite.
My go to is apple, banana, grapes, and a bit of mayonnaise.
That's how I've always made it.
That's how my mom did it, my grandmothers did it.
So how do you do yours?
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I just mix fruit together and call it fruit salad. I don't add mayo or anything like that. If anything, i might add a bit of apple or orange juice. I like fresh fruit to just taste like fresh fruit.
I love grape salad, and my dressing on that is a combination of sour cream, cream cheese and sugar.
For my day to day, I like strawberries, blueberries, and then grapes or blackberries, sometimes with raspberries - but they are too delicate to mix in, you have to sprinkle them on top. No dressing on that.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
I've never had fruit salad with dressing on it. I'm not sure how I feel about mayo and fruit but I can't knock it until I try it. My favorites for a fruit salad would be strawberries, peaches, and blackberries with a squeeze of lemon juice and just a sprinkle of sugar.
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Just cut up a bunch of fruit. I usually make it in the summer time, so it's watermelon, cantaloupe, melon, grapes, strawberries. Maybe some blueberries. Not usually bananas or apples, as they turn brown too quickly.
Just fruit. Usually pineapple, bananas, cherries, blueberries, whatever else. My mom does makes something called sweetheart salad that has pineapple, marichino cherries, cream cheese, heavy whipped cream & clear gelatin. It is a whipped up & very sweet. We only have it about once a year because a little goes a long way.
I'm actually pretty picky about my fruit salad. The thought of mayo in it is weird, and melon in it makes everything taste like melon - the melon infects everything. And, of course, I can't have apples. So, picky.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
My great aunt use to make a fruit salad with some kind of liquor.
It was for adults only.
Never had it.
But it was always eaten up.
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My fruit salads have all the melons under the sun included in them, as well as a bit of blueberries and raspberries. Once in a while, I will mix in a mixture of cream cheese and cool whip.
My mom or me rather use to make fruit salad for Thanksgiving every year. Cut up oranges, apples, bannanas and I can't remember what else and mixed it with miracle whip. Yuck. After I got married I never made it again. I'm like Lady gaga, I just want my fruit salad to taste like fruit.
I chop up whatever is in season and toss it together in a bowl. Sometimes I chop up some fresh mint to throw in, especially if there are berries involved.
This is what I what I grew up eating as fruit salad.
16 oz Cool Whip
3 oz Jell-O Instant Pistachio Pudding
1 Jar Maraschino Cherries
1 Large Can of Peaches
1 can Mandarin Oranges
1 Large Can of Fruit ****tail
1 can Pineapple
Drain fruit and slice into small pieces.
Mix Cool Whip and Jell-O together, add fruit.
Refrigerate
I chop up whatever is in season and toss it together in a bowl. Sometimes I chop up some fresh mint to throw in, especially if there are berries involved.
The mint is key. I did that once on a whim and received so many compliments.
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I do make something called "Orange Fluff". It is :
a tub of cottage cheese, coolwhip, 2 packs of orange jello, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple. It is scary good! I mean you cannot stop eating it.
I make that too! love it. At Christmas I change it up a little bit, instead of orange jello and mandarin oranges I use strawberry jello and frozen strawberries (thawed). It is very good too
I do make something called "Orange Fluff". It is :
a tub of cottage cheese, coolwhip, 2 packs of orange jello, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple. It is scary good! I mean you cannot stop eating it.
I make that too! love it. At Christmas I change it up a little bit, instead of orange jello and mandarin oranges I use strawberry jello and frozen strawberries (thawed). It is very good too
Me, three!
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I would have to substitute real whipped cream. (It only takes three or four minutes to make it from scratch. And it tastes so much better. JMHO.)
No of us can stand the taste of Cool Whip.
Same here, but so many don't want to bother making the good stuff.
DE, it only takes an extra 3 to 4 minutes.
How could anyone be in that big of a hurry?
I'm shocked.
I honestly couldn't imagine eating that stuff.
(Again, JMHO. If you (general you) and your family can stand it......have at it.)
Tried using whipped cream in the orange cottage cheese fluff stuff a few times.
It doesn't hold up.
Not sure if it's the acid in the oranges or the jello or what.
But it always became soupy and not fluffy.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I do make something called "Orange Fluff". It is :
a tub of cottage cheese, coolwhip, 2 packs of orange jello, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple. It is scary good! I mean you cannot stop eating it.
oh hey... I have all of this! I think I might try this soon!
Ok. Mix the cool whip and cottage cheese first, then add the jello, after mixing well, fold in the drained fruit.
Chill for at least an hour.
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