Rosie Makes A Fruit Salad.

 Sometimes, you just want sweet and simple and it doesn't get much sweet or simpler than this.

I had red grapes in the fridge and, after snacking on a handful or so, decided to add in a few more items and make a fruit salad out of it. 

 

Rosie's Grape Salad

I don't know why, but I actually measured the ingredients for you.  Just know that this is but a starting point. You can add more or less of whatever you like.  Remember - taste test!

 

1/2 stick (4 oz.) cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup sour cream

2 TB brown sugar 

1 TB vanilla

10 oz. red seedless grapes (I use whole grapes.  If you sliced them, I think that would make the salad too watery.  And I used red grapes, because they're a pretty color and they're all I had, but green grapes or a combination would do nicely.)

1 cup toasted walnuts, chopped  (No walnuts?  Use pecans or almonds, or pistachios.  Be sure to toast your nuts for extra flavor.)

1 stalk celery, sliced

1 apple, cored, coarsely peeled (for color), and diced

1/2 cup blueberries (because I had them)

pinch salt, or to taste

 

Combine cream cheese, sour cream, brown sugar, and vanilla in medium bowl.  Mix well.  You could use a beater here and whup it good, but I'm basically lazy and didn't want any more to clean up than absolutely necessary, so I just forked it all together.

 

To the cream cheese mixture, gently fold in the rest of the ingredients until uniformly coated.  Add salt to taste. 

 

And here you have a lovely fruit salad.  Sweet and simple.

But wait...  More ingredients are forthcoming.

 

I ate my way through a bunch of this, then decided I could give it a little kick.

Sooooo....  I toasted some coconut and topped my fruit salad with that, along with a sprinkling of turbinado sugar.  Turbinado sugar is sugar in the raw.  It's minimally processed, coarse-textured, slightly crunchy, and caramel-flavored.

This stuff is hard to stop eating.

Enjoy.