Creamy Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

Sauce:
2 TBSP flour
1/2 cup of sugar
1 egg
1 cup of pineapple juice (use from can of pineapples)

1. Combine flour and sugar in a medium sauce pan. With a wire whisk stir in pineapple juice and egg. This will help it from forming clumps.
2. Cook over meduim heat until it thickens and boils.
3. Cool to room temperature.

Fruit:
2 cups of graps
2 bananas, sliced
1 can of pineapple chunks or tidbits,
1 can of fruit cocktail, drained (I used the very cherry mixed, since it already had a lot of pineapple)
1 can of mandarin oranges, dained
2 tsp lemon juice.

4. Put fruit together in a medium bowl and toss with lemon juice. This will help your bananas from going brown, so focus on getting them a light coating.

5. Pour sauce over fruit and stir. Refridgerate about 2 hours before serving.


Review:
This was super easy, and it tasted really good. We keep the canned fruit around and we usually have bananas and grapes, so I really just thought, 'oh I have everything, let's make this' and it turned out perfect.

It was a little sweet to serve for dinner if you were having something sweet. We had potatoes and pork chops, so it worked. It would make a good dessert, or fruit topping for cake.

Creamy Corn Dip

Ingredients:

1 can of white corn (15.25 ounces)
1 can of yellow corn (15.25 ounces)
1 can of diced tomatoes and green chilis (10 ounces)
1/2 can of black beans (see review)
1 package of cream cheese (8 ounces)
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic salt
Chopped fresh cilantro to taste
*I used about 1 TBSP of freeze-dried cilantro and it was perfect. You could use more or less or none if you wanted

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Drain the corn and tomatoes. Cut cream cheese into 1/2 inch squares
3. In a medium baking dish, mix all ingredients.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Review:

The recipe says that it makes 42 servings. Michael and I ate the whole thing with 1 bag of tortilla chips over the course of about 3 days. It was truly that good. I'm bringing this to parties and inviting people over, just to have this. It was SO good.

I didn't have the canned corn, so I subsituted frozen corn. I cooked it in the microwave, and then drained it and added it. It worked just fine. Since I was missing about a cup of corn, I added about 1 cup of black beans and it was delicious! It was thin enough you can add the beans with the corn.

You will make this again and again.