Can confirm. I’ll be bringing Marshmallow Salad (a sacred family tradition) to Christmas dinner this year.
In case you’re curious, here’s the recipe:
- 1 big bag of mini marshmallows
- 1 large can of fruit cocktail
- 8oz tub of sour cream
Mix them together in your potluckiest bowl and let it sit overnight.
And yes, it’s delicious.
And it will inexplicably have peas in it as well
An actual recipe I grew up having in Minnesota and still occasionally make for events.
Cookie Salad
Pot-Luck, Salads Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients:
- 2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 12 oz whipped topping, thawed
- 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
- 1/2 (11 1/2 ounce) package fudge stripe cookies
Directions:
- In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and the buttermilk.
- Fold in the whipped topping.
- Mix in the pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges.
- Crush cookies and mix in.
- Chill until ready to serve.
- Decorate with any remaining cookies.
Notes: French Vanilla pudding is especially good Some like to add 1 ( 20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained as well
Is it only half a package of fudge stripe cookies because part of the process is eating the other half?
The other half of the package is for decoration on the top. You break the cookies in half and try to put them in a decorative manner.
Love how you’re using buttermilk instead of sour cream for salad healthiness!!
If you really hate yourself, you could swap it out with plain Greek yogurt. It wouldn’t be good, but you could do it.
That sounds like a much better version of banana pudding.
Growing up in Oklahoma there were two dishes that confused me as a child.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
There was also always sweet potato casserole which was a tray of thick slices of sweet potato covered in maple syrup, sprinkled with brown sugar, and marshmallows placed on top before baking the entire thing.
And yes both were served with the savoury food, and yes there was always 10 different pies, ice cream, an assortment of cookies, and homemade caramels for dessert afterwards.
Looking back, it explains why every single male in the family was overweight.
There was also always sweet potato casserole […]
Having had the “pleasure” in the 90s to have my host family mum serve one of those as a special homemade dinner because I mentioned I liked sweet potatoes on a previous visit to the States, I just had a bad flashback… I didn’t finish even my first serving and I felt so bad because she had made this for me especially. But… marshmallows! How can people mistake those for something edible???
what…
I live in the midwest and collect old cookbooks. Every “salad” section is about half recipes comprised of mixed vegetables and the like, and half recipes that sound like someone took all the desserts in their house and mixed them in a big bowl with some whipped cream and jello.
Be glad. I have my grandmother’s cookbooks. She had one, that I only keep for proof, comprised entirely of mayonnaise recipes. I think it was published by Hellmans. It is full of some of the worst atrocities to food I have ever read about.
I know I don’t really like everything I’m served, but I swear this cookbook is like for a black-site prisoner encampment that gets deliveries twice a year.
EDIT: found it.
I need to know what the closest dish in that image is! (Presuming the furthest back is Pink Cloud Mold, and the middle is the Salmon-Dill Mousse)
Oh my god that’s amazing. I think you might not know how valuable that is to those of us under the spell of God’s cream.
Allow me to whet your appetite once more, that you may be fulfilled.
The salmon flounder roulades sound pretty good actually
“Pink Cloud Mold”
🤒
Just makes the mouth water, doesn’t it?
“Oh, that’s my mom’s pink mold recipe!”
shudder
I live in the Midwest and it was a couple of different types of fruit salad. Fruit with a bunch of whipped cream.
I’ve lived my entire life in the South, but growing up we’d occasionally visit extended family in the Midwest for a holiday. Regarding holiday meals, what the fuck is wrong with you people
I’d be more offended if this weren’t coming from the land of sweet tea. Understatement of the millennia twice running. Tried some once, grew a Wilford Brimley moustache within ten minutes.
Sorry, next time we’ll deep fry it for you.
jk, I also grew up in the South but currently live in the Midwest.
Deepfried green jello containing pickles and cherries
Deep fried hotdish
Pretty sure I had this at the fair this summer
Hotdish on a stick, it’s been there every year for a while now.
In my family it’s more like key lime jello mixed with cool whip and mandarin oranges or some shit. And it always slaps
that’s very accurate. btw, do you happen to have the recipe for the gummy bear casserole?
Gummy bear casserole (healthy version)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 tubs of cool whip
- 3 bags gummy bears
- A can of mandarin oranges in light syrup
- Brick of low fat philadelphia cream cheese (room temp)
- teaspoon of vanilla extract
Directions:
- Combine the cream cheese and sugar with a mixer until fluffy
- Add cream cheese mixture, gummy bears, 1 tub of coolwhip, mandarin oranges (drained), and vanilla into a casserole dish, mix until homogenous
- Top with remaining tub of cool whip
- Chill in the fridge overnight (optional, you’re gonna throw this together an hour before the party)
- enjoy
Source: my family is from Iowa
I gotta know… What is the unhealthy version? Haha
Substitute gummy orange slices for the mandarin oranges?
Im from the Midwest and never heard of this dish but i know how “Midwest Healthy” works. So I’m willing to bet in the “unhealthy version” you basically double the sugar and possibly also the cream cheese. Oh and switch to full fat creme cheese.
Sometimes you do something outrageous like serve it ontop of a banana split and/or add copious amounts of chocolate syrup.
I’m not exactly sure who started it, but my family has a green salad for holiday dinners. it’s sorta a mix of lime jello, cream cheese and pineapple tidbits. it’s coms togeather in such a way that it looks like spme kind of bathroommat or moldy sponge.
Tastes great though, would always recommend. I do believe that exploring new things like a traditional dish is worth looking into. so don’t let an unusual combination ingredients or a slightly off color look put you off of trying a food made with love in mind.
My family (kinda not-quite-northern MN) uses key lime, mini marshmallows, wanna say cool whip, and usually mandarin oranges, but that’s a hit. And someone always brings a whole slow cooker full of meatballs that have been marinaded in there with grape jelly and possibly chili sauce (just the sauce). Those 2 things are so awesome and the meatballs are easy to cook
Meatballs in a slowcooker full of bbq sauce is the ultimate in potluck cuisine. I sometimes make that shit just for myself
If you’ve never tried, def give grape jelly+chili sauce a shot! There are a bajillion recipes floating around if you google (recipes, like ratios of grape to chili sauce), but I’ve made that for myself and the grape somehow makes it pop. It’s just good lol
My mom made this but layered it with plain red jello. The lime jello just had pineapple, and the cream cheese was a layer between the red and green jello. I think that’s right, its been a long time since I’ve had some. Definitely layered with red jello, had to set before the next layer.
One of my favorite ‘salads’ is jello, mini marshmallows, cool whip, and canned mandarin oranges. I was told it has fruit, so it counts as a salad. A staple at any church potluck.
Three different colored layers of jello? Gran, that’s fantastic! That must have taken hours to make!
Still better than hash (basically making a casserole of all the leftovers combined)
You have not had my grandma’s Christmas day hash. That is more delicious than the Christmas dinner itself. Damn my father’s side of the family knew how to cook…
