Best Fruit Salad Ever!!

My friend, Cathy, brought this wonderful fruit salad to a church gathering and everyone was commenting on how good it was.  I was impressed that the sliced bananas in her salad didn't turn brown!  She was very nice to share the recipe.  This one is a great cold summer dessert. I like a little Cool Whip on top to make it extra pretty!

  When I fixed this recently, I was out of bananas and so I substituted fresh blueberries.  I really like it both ways.

Fruit Salad

1 container frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, semi-thawed

1 can peach pie filling

Halved red and green seedless grapes

Sliced bananas

Fresh blueberries (optional)

Cool Whip for topping

Stir together.  Serve chilled.  Top with Cool Whip.

Baked Potatoes in Your Crock Pot!

If you like baked potatoes in the summer (or anytime!) here's a great way to make them.

1.  Scrub and thoroughly wash your baking potatoes-any kind, I usually fix half regular baking potatoes and half sweet potatoes.

2. Rub the skins with oil and a little kosher salt (optional).  Wrap each potato individually in foil.

3.  Layer in your Crock  Pot and put on High setting for several hours until tender.

They turn out perfectly...and no hot kitchen!

Get Rid of Those "Skeeters"!

I posted this last summer, but have had several requests for me to share it, again!

Well, summer is here and so are the bugs!  As I sat on the back porch last night to listen to the rain, I invited hubby out, too.  We loved the comfortable seats and the pitter-patter sound that  the rain made as it hit the metal gutters.    

As the evening went along, even though our back porch was a relaxing place to sit, we were forced to come inside because of the mosquitoes and other bugs that gather at dusk! 

 Then, today, as I looked on social media, a friend had posted this mixture of simple ingredients that are supposed to keep the mosquitoes away.  I'm in!  I'd say that this is worth a try!  We don't usually buy beer, but we're going to get a couple of cans and let it go flat just to make this stuff!

P. S.  We have made this and sprayed it on our back yard with good results!