Youngs Family Recipes

I never liked Frog Eye Salad as a kid, because I thought the texture was weird.  Dan's mom made this salad once though and I loved it.  It's really more like dessert. This salad is best when made the night before you plan on eating it.    Frog Eye Salad, from the kitchen of Kathy McRae   Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar 1 Tbs flour 1 tsp butter 1/2 tsp salt 1 egg 3/4 tsp lemon juice 1 cup pineapple juice (reserved from the crushed pineapple) 1 cup acini di pepe pasta (uncooked) 1 cup drained crushed pineapple 12 oz. Cool Whip, thawed 2 large or 3 small cans drained mandarin oranges 1/2 cup miniature marshmallows Preparation Instructions: Combine the sugar, flour, butter, salt, egg, lemon juice, and pineapple juice in a saucepan. Place on medium heat stirring frequently until it comes to a boil.  Cool completely.  It will thicken as it cools.    Boil acini di pepe in water for about 10 minutes.  Dr...

I am finally getting around to posting this recipe.  This recipe comes from one of Dan's co-workers, I think his name is Dave.  It isn't very exact, so you might have to tweak it a little bit until you find what you like best. Ingredients: Pork Shoulder Roast 4-6 lbs.  (You can use a different type of roast if you want, but this is the kind he recommended because they are pretty inexpensive to buy. Also,because they are pretty fatty, it adds to the flavor and it's pretty easy to pull the meat apart.) 2-3 onions, roughly chopped 2-3 TBS salt 1 1/2 TBS garlic powder or 4 garlic cloves, crushed 10-30 drops Tabasco sauce 2 TBS liquid smoke 1-2 cups soda (coke or root beer) or 1/4-1/2 cup brown sugar  *He recommended cooking with the soda and we usually use root beer. 2 TBS Worcestershire sauce BBQ sauce Preparation Instructions: Place the roast in your crock pot.  Add the rest of the ingredients into the crock pot (except BBQ sauce)  and cover....