Fruit Salad

There is nothing better than a fresh salad on a hot summer day.  You can sit outside under a shade tree and eat salad and drink iced tea to cool off.  When I was a child my mother made only one kind of fruit salad.  I love everything in the salad except the mayonnaise!  I would eat the salad but I sure did not think the mayonnaise did it any justice.  When I married and left home I made my own version of fruit salad and I must admit it is delicious!  It has calories though.  One small issue.  But delightful none the less.
Here is my recipe!

Step 1 Recipe

Fruit salad recipe:

• 1 Can fruit cocktail
• 1 Small carton whipping cream
• Bunch of grapes
• 1 chopped apple
• 2 Sliced bananas
• 1 Small can Mandarin orange 
• 1 Small can pineapple tidbits
• 1/2 Strawberries
• Small pkg coconut
• 1 cup pecans or just garnish each serving like I did.
• 1 t Vanilla
• Marsh mellows opitional "I forgot to add them" 
• Cherries for garnish
• Sweeten to taste