Apple Cherry Salad



While attending a potluck lunch in Hoboken, Georgia during a Sacred Harp Sing, I tasted a recipe with apples and nuts and a mystery flavor.  I couldn't put my finger on what the particular flavor was that stood out, but my husband, Bruce, could.  It was cherries!  Not knowing who prepared the unusual dish,  I was unable to ask for the recipe. I came up with my version and here it is.  By the way,  I took my dish to a church potluck and got raves over it.  Enjoy!  -jmm

 

Apple Cherry Salad

 

You'll need:

1 cup no fat, plain yogurt

1/8 to 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice to taste after you add the sweetener

2 packets of natural sweetener like Truvia

1 large apple, sliced into bite-sized pieces

8 or so maraschino cherries, sliced in half

1/3 cup pecan pieces

 

Mix yogurt, cherry juice and sweetener.  Add apples, cherries and nuts.  Serve at once or keep refrigerated for up to two days.  Makes 2 large servings.



 

Three Ingredient Dessert

At a recent bunco* party, my friend, Emmie, gave me this easy treat she got from her friend, Freida. Quick to make and, just as quick, it's all gone! 

Freida's Angel Pudding Cake

 

 

You'll need:

1 ounce box of sugar free butterscotch pudding
8 ounce Cool Whip (fat free or lite)
1 angel food cake, store-bought
(pecans optional)

Mix the pudding into the Cool Whip.  Slice the cake horizontally into three sections.  Frost between the layers and then the top. (Place pecans on top if desired.) Eat at once or keep chilled on a covered cake plate.  If you want to frost the sides of the cake, too, buy two boxes of pudding and two containers of Cool Whip.

Enjoy!

*Aunt Noreen, a featured player in Mark of a Man, the next novel in Amelia Island's Goodbye Lie trilogy, plays bunco, a Victorian parlor game!