Good morning, good readers. Summer is almost in full swing, and your recipes bear that out. We’ve already heard an impassioned request from a busy mother with a new slow cooker, and her recipes fall in two directions: kid-friendly Crock Pot meals and salads, salads, salads.
She wrote: “I want the kind of simple Crock Pot recipes that don’t turn kids off with exotic spices and such. I am planning as many nights as possible, when I don’t turn the Crock Pot on as we leave for baseball games, to fix salads. I am thinking of some fun layered salads that look pretty and that I can make with the kids even. Also fruit salads and tuna salads and chicken salads without the mayonnaise, or at least without much mayonnaise. The kinds of things you can carry with you if there is not time to sit down to dinner at home. I don’t want to get stuck in a fast-food line every night.”
Carolyn Fox sent a recipe in answer to the request for a pistachio cake.
Pistachio Marble Cake
1 package (2-layer size) yellow cake mix
1 package (4-serving size) Jell-O pistachio instant pudding and pie filling