Frog Eye Salad...I know, but guaranteed to make new friends

[Shellie]

1 box acine de pepe pasta
3 cups mandarin oranges drained
2 cans pineapple tidbits (not the small can)
1 can crushed pineapple (not the small can)
1 cup coconut
1 jar maraschino cherries
2 cups mini marshmallows (I used the colored ones)
1 LARGE container cool whip

DRESSING INGREDIENTS:
1 and 3/4 cup pineapple juice (get from draining pineapple)
1 cup white sugar
2 Tbl. flour
2 egg yolks slightly scrambled
1/4 cup lemon juice


Cook pasta according to directions and rinse with cold water. Set aside while preparing dressing.

Boil pineapple juice and sugar in a sauce pan. After it comes to a boil, remove from heat and whisk in flour first, and THEN add egg yolks and stir. Continue stirring for three minutes until thicker.

Next, add lemon juice and stir. Add this liquid mixture to your pasta in a large bowl and stir well. Allow this to marinate together overnight in refridgerator.

In a separate bowl combine oranges, all pineapple, and cherries and refridgerate overnight as well.

In the morning drain the fruit bowl and add to pasta bowl. Add coconut, marshmallows and cool whip and mix together well.

Voila! You have a dessert or cold salad that people have offered to pay me so that they could take it to their company parties.

[Pianoman]

Finally got to try this! I live in a somewhat rural area &
had problems finding the acine de pepe pasta - but finally
found it in a specialty grocery store.

I had problems with the dressing. When I put the flour in
the boiling mixture - it turned into little dumplings balls &
didn't dissolve. Any thoughts what I might be doing wrong?
I strained the balls out & tried it again - but had the same
thing happen. I did get some of it to dissolve & the mixture
did thicken.

I didn't know if I was going to have a bowl big enough for
it! Had a lot of raves on this one & just enough left to take
to work tomorrow.

[Shellie]

Pianoman,

First, remove the boiling mixture from the stove before adding flour.

Then, stir your flour in with a rapidly moving whisk. You won't keep away all the lumps, but you will get smaller and fewer. Don't worry about them...they will dissolve once mixed in with the mixture and chilled.

I edited the original recipe to help. Sorry.