Taffy Apple Salad Recipe

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Lauren

I rediscovered this Taffy Apple Salad recipe that I used to make when I first got married, but had forgotten about. Probably when I discovered the recipe for our family favorite “Sort of Hawaiian Salad“.

It was actually my husband who reminded me about the recipe when he signed us up to bring Taffy Apple Salad for a holiday potluck. I told him it wasn’t Taffy Apple Salad it was sort of more like Hawaiian Salad, but he remembered that I had his Mom’s recipe. I made it last night, and just had to share it here. (Wish I had remembered to take a picture of it before Hubby took it to work today!)

Below is my Mother-In-Law’s Taffy Apple Salad recipe:

1 – 24 oz. can pineapple chunks (drain, but reserve the juice)
2 C. mini marshmallows
1 T. flour
1/4 C. sugar
1 egg – well beaten
1 1/2 T. white vinegar
12 oz. Cool Whip
2 C. diced, unpeeled Red Delicious apples (I got this from 1 large apple)
1 1/2 C. chopped dry roasted nuts

  • Mix pineapple chunks and marshmallows in medium mixing bowl. Let stand overnight.
  • In a small saucepan, mix pineapple juice, flour, sugar, egg, and vinegar. Cover, and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until thickened. Remove from heat, leave covered and let cool. Then refrigerate the mixture overnight.
  • The next morning, in a large serving bowl,add the Cool Whip to the cooked mixture; then fold in all remaining ingredients. Chill for at least 8 hours before serving.

My notes: It’s crunchy, and sweet, and creamy, and delicious! Next time I make this, and there will be a next time, I’m going to use a little more diced apple, and a little less chopped nuts. Tweaking to my preferences. ;)

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Holiday Posts Revisited

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Lauren

Looking for some holiday craft, treat, or dinner ideas? Here are some that were posted last year…

The kids will soon be home again for winter break, and it won’t take long until their “bored already”. The weather can be cold, wet and nasty. What do you do? Plan now to keep them busy making something with their hands, instead of you tearing your hair out. Here are 5 Holiday Crafts for Kids.

These treats are bound to be a favorite this holiday season, and you may find yourself wanting to make more. Perfect for gift giving, put some pieces in a cellophane bag, or airtight container for Teachers, neighbors, co-workers or friends. Here are 3 Chocolate and Candy Cane Treats.

Christmas belongs to everyone especially the children. Most of the memories that we treasure for a lifetime are created during childhood. Help your kids to make memorable moments with Edible Tree Ornaments.

Before you throw out what appears to be useless ornaments and Christmas cards, think about how they can be reused for another year of celebration. Get the kids involved and turn the quest for recycled materials into a treasure hunt through the house. Here are 5 ideas for Recycled Christmas Decorations.

Everyone thinks of the traditional ham or turkey with all the trimmings as the must-have meal at the holidays, but it’s a lot of work. Time to start thinking about it now! You can still have a delicious meal without slaving away all day. Really! Here are some Easy Christmas Dinner Ideas.

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Theme Ideas For Your Scrapbook

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Lauren

By: Anne Bell

Whether you’re new to scrapbooking or an old pro, coming up with ideas for a new album is not always easy. Here we’ll talk about different ideas and how organizing your photos will help determine the theme of your next scrapbook.

Here are some album ideas you can use; and looking these over may spark some other ideas of your own.

Travel Scrapbook: You can create an album from photos of you and your family while traveling. You may have enough photos from one specific trip to complete a small album, or you can combine several trips into one larger album. If you travel a lot, you might like to do an album called “On the Road in 2009″ for example.

School age children’s events: If you have kids in school, an album of their different activities is a good way to store and display those memories. You may want to have one album for each year with all your children, or you may want to have different albums for each child throughout the years.

Antique Album: An antique style album is great for old black and white photos you may have lying around in a box or the basement.

Seasonal album: Perhaps you have lots of pictures during the different seasons. You could create an album with all your fall pictures using earth tones and fall colors and themes.

Children’s artwork: Do you have tons of your child’s artwork plastered to your fridge or in a box somewhere? Get it out, sort it by year and create an album using the different pieces. You can use it for backgrounds, decorations or maybe even embellishments. Incorporate pictures of your child from a specific year with the artwork.

Now that your wheels are spinning with ideas for your next album, let’s talk about photo organization. Organizing your photos is a great way to get ideas for albums as well. As you sort through the boxes and packets of pictures you have, you’ll start to get ideas for an album.

There are, of course, many different ways you could organize your photos, so I’m just going to give you a few ideas to get you started.

Chronologically: If you have piles and piles of photos in boxes, or photos in old albums that aren’t acid and lignin free, take them out and start sorting them into stacks by the year. If your photos aren’t date stamped on the back or front, try to determine the year they were taken by the ages of the people in them, the style of clothing, the location or event where the photo was taken. You may find you have hundreds of photos for each year and will need to break it down further by season or event.

By event: As you’re sorting chronologically, you’ll probably come across photos from certain events that would make for a nice album or two such as: a trip, a wedding, birth of a new baby, a play or other theatrical event, a concert or a family outing.

Once you have your photos sorted and organized, store them in plastic baggies to keep the air out. This will help preserve them until you can get them into an acid and lignin free album. Be sure to mark each bag by year or event so when you go back to make the album you know which baggie to grab.

Are you ready to scrapbook yet? I am off to scrapbook my latest trip.

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To add color and fun to your pages, use scrapbooking embellishments.

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