Christine's Pasta Fruit Salad
- Ready In:
- 48hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 2 (16 ounce) cans crushed pineapple or (16 ounce) cans pineapple tidbits
- 2 (12 ounce) cans mandarin oranges
- 2 (12 ounce) jars maraschino cherries
- 1 lb acini di pepe pasta
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 (24 ounce) container whipped topping
directions
- Cook and drain the pasta according to package directions, rinse with cold water and drain well; set aside.
- Drain the pineapple and oranges- save the juice! Also drain the cherries and save the juice, but separate from other juices.
- Mix all the drained fruit in with your pasta. You may want to cut up your cherries (sometimes I do, sometimes I'm too lazy).
- Take the orange and pineapple juice and put into a large saucepan. Use a hand blender to add the egg and mix well; then add your sugar. Bring to a boil, then add the cornstarch mixed with a bit of cold water. Boil all together for 1 minute. This must cool completely- then add 1/2 of the cherry juice and discard the rest.
- Now add your cooled juice mixture to your pasta and fruit. Mix together well, then add cool whip.
- Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.
- If you cannot find acini de pepe pasta in your store, you can substitute with those little bitty stars pasta, or the pasta that looks like rice/melon seeds, but when I do the packages of those end up being more than 1 lb- it works out fine though, don't try to even it out to 1 lb, just use it as is.
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As you can see, I live in Tennessee, and although I love it, I'll always be a Yankee! My hometown is Latrobe, PA....and that's where I learned to appreciate good cooking! My maternal Grandma was Italian, and she was the best cook EVER. Family dinners were absolutely ASTOUNDING at the amount and variety of food she would create. Sadly, as a child I was so picky I wouldn't even TRY half of what they put in front of me....once I grew up, I only had a few years of experimenting, and then Grandma died. If only I'd been smarter as a child- I missed out on so much excellent cooking! Since then, I scour thru all her old cookbooks and try to make up for whatever I may have missed...But most of her recipes are handwritten and the amounts listed are dubious, or sometimes missing altogether. My grandma was a wonderful cook, but LOUSY at recording her tricks of the trade!
O well.