Fruit Salad...Yummy, Yummy

1 small container of Cool Whip
1 small package of vanilla pudding
Fruit, any kind you want.

When I make this I like strawberries, bananas, apples, grapes. My Mom and sister in law like to add pineapple, Mandarin oranges, peaches, whatever you like.

Take your container of cool whip put in a bowl, slowly start adding the vanilla pudding a little at a time and stirring. I almost never use the whole packet of pudding, but usually 2/3-3/4. Supposedly the pineapple is suppose to help keep the cool whip creamier, but I am not a pineapple person so I make it this way. Once well mixed add fruit and mix together. Note if you are adding banana don't add them until you are ready to eat it as they will brown. If my family is going to eat this for more than one meal I just add some bananas to their plates and scoop the salad on top of it.

Super easy and super yummy, my kids and hubby ask for this all the time.

Baked Ziti

Thanks Andrea for this recipe! It was a HUGE hit at our house. WARNING, it makes a TON, it will easily feed my family of 4 for 3 meals and then probably Jeff and I for another meal. Next time I will half it I think.

Baked Ziti
1 lb Ziti or Penne pasta
1 lb. ground beef (I used about 2/3's lb.)
1/2 onion- chopped
1 big Jar of Spaghetti Sauce (I used Ragu's Tomato, Garlic and Onion and got the big Jar from Walmart)
6 slices of provolone cheese
1 1/2 cups sour cream (I only used about 1/2 cup)
1-2 cups Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Parmesan cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 350. Boil water and cook pasta according to package directions, drain and set aside.

Brown beef with onion until cooked, drain fat. Add spaghetti sauce and simmer for about 10-15 minutes.

In 9x13 deep baking dish, spray with non-stick spray. Layer in this order: 1/2 cooked pasta, 6 slices of provolone, sour cream (spread across the whole layer), 1/2 meat sauce, rest of pasta, Mozzarella cheese, rest of meat sauce, then top with some Parmesan cheese. Pan will be full! I put a baking sheet underneath to catch any boil over.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until bubbly.

*The boys absolutely loved this meal! Jeff's only request was to maybe leave out the "ricotta" cheese next time, he meant the sour cream but shhh we won't tell him it was really sour cream, he hates the stuff!