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Post by craftedbys on Nov 20, 2019 22:35:49 GMT
We always had a jello salad— Either orange jello with mandarin oranges and shredded carrots and pineapple OR LIME JELLO WITH PINEAPPLE AND CELERY!!! What happened to jello salads? I grew up with that as a staple! 🤣🤣🤣 Jello salads are alive and well at our house. It is not a holiday without 7-Up Salad. Even though Dah and DH don't eat it, DD, my Dad and I love it and we polish it off, although I do make a smaller size than my mom always did. My jello salad is lemon jello dissolved in 1 cup of hot water and then you use 7Up or Sprite for the rest of the liquid. Then you add well drained crushed pineapple and after pouring it in your serving dish, you top with mini marshmallows and chill to set. While it is setting you make a custard with the reserved pineapple juice and when it has cooled you spread that on top of the marshmallows (and I always double the custard recipe). Right before serving I top the whole thing with whipped cream. It is one of those things that from the moment I taste it, it tastes of holidays (the big 3: Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas) and family and memories. |
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Post by craftedbys on Nov 20, 2019 22:37:34 GMT
Not the name itself, but the list of ingredients in grape salad. At one point some reporter said it was a traditional Minnesota food, and this lifelong Minnesotan said, “What the what?!?” It turns out that MANY Minnesotans said something similar, almost no one had ever heard of it and people were saying that reporter was on crack. Here you go (barf!) Grape Salad from Food Network Ingredients 2 pounds seedless green grapes 2 pounds seedless purple grapes One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature One 8-ounce container sour cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped Directions Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans. I’m sorry, NO. Just no. That’s gross. I have seen this in many a southern cookbooks and I love this salad. Once a lady at Bunco brought it and I went back for thirds. |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Nov 20, 2019 22:37:59 GMT
We call it turkey bone soup. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 20, 2019 22:42:40 GMT
Not the name itself, but the list of ingredients in grape salad. At one point some reporter said it was a traditional Minnesota food, and this lifelong Minnesotan said, “What the what?!?” It turns out that MANY Minnesotans said something similar, almost no one had ever heard of it and people were saying that reporter was on crack. Here you go (barf!) Grape Salad from Food Network Ingredients 2 pounds seedless green grapes 2 pounds seedless purple grapes One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature One 8-ounce container sour cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped Directions Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans. I’m sorry, NO. Just no. That’s gross. I have seen this in many a southern cookbooks and I love this salad. Once a lady at Bunco brought it and I went back for thirds. I had never heard of it before reading about it in the article. A couple years ago I was at a crop at a friend’s store and her mom had made a bowl of it. I took one look at it in all its slimy sauce and said, “Nope. Not doing it!” LOL. I couldn’t do it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 22:42:43 GMT
We call it turkey bone soup.
Turkey bone soup sounds much better. The original recipe that I adapted mine from is called Turkey Carcass Soup. I just call mine turkey soup.
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 20, 2019 22:54:22 GMT
Not the name itself, but the list of ingredients in grape salad. At one point some reporter said it was a traditional Minnesota food, and this lifelong Minnesotan said, “What the what?!?” It turns out that MANY Minnesotans said something similar, almost no one had ever heard of it and people were saying that reporter was on crack. Here you go (barf!) Grape Salad from Food Network Ingredients 2 pounds seedless green grapes 2 pounds seedless purple grapes One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature One 8-ounce container sour cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped Directions Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans. I’m sorry, NO. Just no. That’s gross. OMG this is SOOOO good.. every time I make this it disappears...My aunt brought this to my mom's 70th birthday 10 years ago.. I've been making it ever since! |
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 20, 2019 22:56:32 GMT
I have seen this in many a southern cookbooks and I love this salad. Once a lady at Bunco brought it and I went back for thirds. I had never heard of it before reading about it in the article. A couple years ago I was at a crop at a friend’s store and her mom had made a bowl of it. I took one look at it in all its slimy sauce and said, “Nope. Not doing it!” LOL. I couldn’t do it.  The secret is the grapes have to be bone dry... no water at all... It should not be slimy at all. Once it hits slimy, yeah it's gross. I keep my cold as well.. Can't let it get warm And it's got to be in a casserole type dish, not a bowl... I am a pro on this one! |
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Post by snowsilver on Nov 20, 2019 22:56:53 GMT
Not the name itself, but the list of ingredients in grape salad. At one point some reporter said it was a traditional Minnesota food, and this lifelong Minnesotan said, “What the what?!?” It turns out that MANY Minnesotans said something similar, almost no one had ever heard of it and people were saying that reporter was on crack. Here you go (barf!) Grape Salad from Food Network Ingredients 2 pounds seedless green grapes 2 pounds seedless purple grapes One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature One 8-ounce container sour cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped Directions Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans. I’m sorry, NO. Just no. That’s gross. NO, NO you must never have tasted it! It is delicious! One lady in our church used to bring it to every potluck and it was always gone! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 23:01:17 GMT
Holidays growing up, there was always Apple-Pea salad. I've made it a few times for my kids because it's tradition and I don't have a lot of family recipes... It doesn't qualify as sounds awful tastes good though. Sounds interesting, tastes awful is more like it at least to me... The main ingredients are: canned peas apple chunks cheddar cheese pieces part of an orange (or orange juice, or both I'd have to look it up) mayonnaise Yum... This is gross. Canned peas. Yuck. Switch out that for chicken add grapes add walnuts. Yum. |
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 20, 2019 23:07:52 GMT
My kids had a similar response when I said I was going to make Mincemeat Tarts a couple years ago. I grew up making them with my mom and hadn't had them in years. My kids couldn't remember ever having them and kind of nibbled a bit and went back to the sugar cookies, shortbread and peanut butter blossoms. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 20, 2019 23:10:52 GMT
I had never heard of it before reading about it in the article. A couple years ago I was at a crop at a friend’s store and her mom had made a bowl of it. I took one look at it in all its slimy sauce and said, “Nope. Not doing it!” LOL. I couldn’t do it. The secret is the grapes have to be bone dry... no water at all... It should not be slimy at all. Once it hits slimy, yeah it's gross. I keep my cold as well.. Can't let it get warm And it's got to be in a casserole type dish, not a bowl... I am a pro on this one! OMG it looked sooo gross. There was no way I was gonna try it. I actually like grapes and I like a lot of types of cream cheese/sugar/whipped topping dips for fruit, but it has to have a thicker consistency to be good. |
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Post by shevy on Nov 20, 2019 23:17:50 GMT
English Suet Pudding. Yes, it is made with beef animal fat. My late Mother-in-law made it every Christmas. It’s supposedly is an old family recipe passed down for many generations from England. Not sure about that. It is surprisingly good. I have my Grandma's recipe. She is 2nd generation German in Minnesota in the early 1900s. She died in 2010. I love eating that every Christmas...until I was old enough to realize what it was made of. Then I stopped eating it. But I have her recipe. |
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Post by shevy on Nov 20, 2019 23:22:12 GMT
My Grandma made a dessert where she took little balls of creamcheese, about dime sized, rolled it in crushed walnuts and froze them. She made orange jello with a little cinnamon in it and poured half a box into a mould. When it hardened, she put the frozen nut balls in and the poured the rest of the jello over it.
It is my Mom's favorite holiday salad. But my Mom had stomach troubles about 10 years ago and can no longer eat nuts. And we don't have a full holiday meal any longer.
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Post by flanz on Nov 20, 2019 23:29:16 GMT
There's a recipe that popped up on my FB the other day. Apparently, it's delicious, but the combination of ingredients strikes me as a bit odd. It's called Cranberry Salsa Cream Cheese Dip. It's basically a mixture of cranberries, jalapenos, green onions, cilantro and lime juice over a bed of cream cheese. It's so weird that I will probably end up making it soon LOL Sounds yummy to me. I might make it with vegan cream cheese! |
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Post by birdy on Nov 20, 2019 23:32:41 GMT
"Green Stuff" aka Pistachio Fluff aka Watergate salad minus nuts and marshmallows. That's the only one that comes to mind at the moment We call ours Green Stuff (pistachio salad) too! Ours is pineapple, pistachio pudding, marshmallows and a tub of cool whip! |
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Post by birdy on Nov 20, 2019 23:35:43 GMT
Fish eye pudding (what my grandma called tapioca) For that reason alone, I could never stomach it!
I like to make Cream of Wheat for breakfast occasionally in the winter. My kids wouldn't eat it based on the name, so I started calling it brown sugar cereal (b/c I add butter and brown sugar) and they loved it!
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Post by wiipii2 on Nov 20, 2019 23:40:14 GMT
In my family the jello salad was lime jello with raw green cabbage in it.
Who ever thought to mix raw cabbage with sweet lime is completely wrong.
It was disgusting. Even in the height of jello salad popularity.
No thank you. That family recipe has died a good death.
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Post by birdgate on Nov 21, 2019 0:02:44 GMT
Date nut pudding sounds good to me.
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Post by basketdiva on Nov 21, 2019 0:03:13 GMT
We always had a jello salad— Either orange jello with mandarin oranges and shredded carrots and pineapple OR LIME JELLO WITH PINEAPPLE AND CELERY!!! We always had grated carrot with crushed pineapple in lime jello. Just mentioning it makes my husband gag. |
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Nov 21, 2019 0:13:04 GMT
Mincemeat pie and mincemeat cookies...I grew up with my Mom making both of these and I liked them, but I mentioned them to my kids when they were little and they were so thoroughly grossed out I didn't revisit the idea again. I never liked the mincemeat pie all that much (a little too much concentrated mincemeat flavor, plus I thought the texture was horrible), but I was a big fan of the mincemeat cookies my mom made.
Then again, I also grew up with jello salads that had shredded carrots in them. My siblings and I....tolerated them but never really liked them or asked for them. None of us makes/eats them as adults.
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Post by janeinbama on Nov 21, 2019 0:58:29 GMT
Not the name itself, but the list of ingredients in grape salad. At one point some reporter said it was a traditional Minnesota food, and this lifelong Minnesotan said, “What the what?!?” It turns out that MANY Minnesotans said something similar, almost no one had ever heard of it and people were saying that reporter was on crack. Here you go (barf!) Grape Salad from Food Network Ingredients 2 pounds seedless green grapes 2 pounds seedless purple grapes One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature One 8-ounce container sour cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped Directions Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans. I’m sorry, NO. Just no. That’s gross. We love this stuff - it's sad to take a perfectly wonderful fruit and jack it up so much. I had it for the first time about 17 years ago. It is a pain to dry grapes  SOS was a favorite of our family when I was growing up. |
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Post by dald222 on Nov 21, 2019 1:06:16 GMT
I love date nut pudding.. my mom used to make it |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Nov 21, 2019 1:20:59 GMT
My contribution to these threads is always Velveeta fudge. It's a Paula Deen recipe (go figure) and she calls it Chocolate Cheese Fudge.I made it as a joke one time for my husband's work... and surprise, it's good! Very creamy and smooth fudge that doesn't taste like Velveeta at all. I've actually made it a few times at Christmas since that first time. |
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Post by ntsf on Nov 21, 2019 1:30:33 GMT
my mom called it golden glow salad... lemon jello with shredded carrots and crushed pineapple.. we had it every thanksgiving. my dad is allergic to poultry so thanksgiving dinner was the one day a year we had poultry. stuffed with a mixture of chopped celery, apple and cooked prunes... (i didn't eat that)
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Post by smartypants71 on Nov 21, 2019 15:08:09 GMT
We always had a jello salad— Either orange jello with mandarin oranges and shredded carrots and pineapple OR LIME JELLO WITH PINEAPPLE AND CELERY!!! We always had grated carrot with crushed pineapple in lime jello. Just mentioning it makes my husband gag. Both of these sound disgusting!!!!! |
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Post by bethany102399 on Nov 21, 2019 18:16:45 GMT
It's called Cranberry Salsa Cream Cheese Dip. It's basically a mixture of cranberries, jalapenos, green onions, cilantro and lime juice over a bed of cream cheese. this sounds amazing, minus the cilantro |
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Post by bethany102399 on Nov 21, 2019 18:17:47 GMT
English Suet Pudding. Yes, it is made with beef animal fat. My late Mother-in-law made it every Christmas. It’s supposedly is an old family recipe passed down for many generations from England. Not sure about that. It is surprisingly good. I heart mince pie. My MIL makes it and sends me a jar every year. My own mom returns the favor with fruitcake which she loves but none of us will eat. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 22, 2019 4:47:51 GMT
We always had a jello salad— Either orange jello with mandarin oranges and shredded carrots and pineapple OR LIME JELLO WITH PINEAPPLE AND CELERY!!! What happened to jello salads? I grew up with that as a staple! 🤣🤣🤣 I still make the one called Cherry Cheese Charmer. It was my favorite and I make it once a year at Christmas! Someone inevitably makes one for thanksgiving |
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Post by smcast on Nov 22, 2019 4:53:17 GMT
crazy4scraps, this Minnesotan has never heard of that grape salad.
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Post by tracyarts on Nov 22, 2019 5:04:24 GMT
Lime Jello Mold. Lime jello, 7 up, rinsed and drained large curd cottage cheese, crushed pineapple, and chopped pecans. My aunt made it every year. And I want to taste it again so badly. But nobody would eat it but me, and I can't finish a whole one.
Same with "Pink Salad". Cool Whip, sweetened condensed milk, cherry pie filling, canned mandarin oranges, canned crushed pineapple, mini marshmallows, and maybe chopped pecans. I would love to taste it again, but I'm on my own with it too.
Bonus: Sweet Cabbage Kolaches. Texas-Czech style kolache pastries with shredded cabbage filling. Cabbage is sauteed and sweetened with sugar and I think nutmeg is added? I can't remember. My dad loved them, and my grandma made them just for him. I couldn't handle sweet cabbage. Still can't.
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SOS was a favorite of our family when I was growing up. 
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