Easy Irresistible Fruit Salad and the Art of Doing Nothing

The Art of Doing Nothing

We just came back from Myrtle Beach and unlike other vacations and cruises we had taken before we did nothing and we are proud of it.  My husband are both very intense workaholics and this is quite a feat to achieve.  My husband Bob mentioned at the start of the vacation that he preferred not to be forced to do things for fun like what happened in our past cruises.   So we just took it easy.

I just want to share pictures I took that capture what our stay was like at the Marriott Hotel and its beach.

 

Learned how to play from the children.

Watched and listened to the ocean waves.

Looked out from our bedroom window to admire the view.



Watched people do nothing.

Lastly don't you wish you can do this?



Beautiful lady at the airport who shared the message on her T-shirt.  By the way she did not follow the advice on the T-shirt .  She was on her way home like we were when we met her.

You won't be able to resist this salad!

Three ingredients.  No cooking needed.  Easy yet irresistible. 

We prepare this fruit salad during special feasts in the Philippines.  We rely on canned fruit and cream since apples, grapes and peaches in the fruit cocktail do not grow easily in the Philippines.  The typical Filipino fruit salad uses canned Nestle cream and condensed milk for the dressing but I substituted cream cheese for the former. 

Other recipes on the web feature other fruit like fresh cubed apples or canned pineapple tidbits.  Some recipes add Filipino nata de coco or bottled or fresh young coconut called buko but I prefer to be a minimalist and limit the ingredients to three.   I served this at a recent party and one of the guests who is a good cook herself loved it.   Here is the recipe.

Easy Irresistible Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

3 (29 oz each) large cans fruit cocktail, drained
1 8 oz cream cheese
1 (14 oz) can condensed milk (I usually use half of this amount since I prefer the salad not to be too sweet)

Instructions:

Thoroughly drain the fruit cocktail until you do not see any juice dripping from the colander. 

Mix the cream cheese and condensed milk thoroughly.

Transfer the drained fruit cocktail in a large bowl and pour into it the cream cheese and condensed milk mixture.   Carefully blend the dressing to the fruit cocktail.  Chill in the refrigerator if you can wait.