Easter lunch menu

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by NUBlue&Blue

ISUKappa, are you eating at my parents' house?

(substitute green bean casserole for that other vege, and add Watergate salad because my sister MUST have it)

Does anybody remember why it's called Watergate Salad? Pistachio pudding/cool whip/other ingredients I don't know because my mom is the one who makes it...

I love Watergate Salad, but nobody else in my family does. *sigh* I was, however, intrigued by your question. So - here's your answer! I did not know that there was also a Watergate Cake!

For the uninitiated:

Watergate Salad

1 package (4-serving size) Jell-O Pistachio Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup chopped walnuts nuts
2 cups thawed Cool Whip Topping

Stir the pudding mix, pineapple with juice, marshmallows and nuts in large bowl until well blended. Gently stir in whipped topping. Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve. Garnish as desired.

Makes 8 servings

[AlexMack]

Honey that sounds completely revolting unless it's served as a dessert. I just cannot wrap my head around using jello salad as a side-dish to an entree. It boggles the mind. And this is from the chick whose country has no qualms about eating the organs of animals.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by centaur532

Honey that sounds completely revolting unless it's served as a dessert. I just cannot wrap my head around using jello salad as a side-dish to an entree. It boggles the mind. And this is from the chick whose country has no qualms about eating the organs of animals.

It is a dessert - otherwise, it's sickeningly sweet. I've seen it with drained marachino cherries, too.

And I couldn't eat organ meat if you paid me! If something filters out the impurities of an animal, it can't possible be good for a human.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by honeychile

It is a dessert - otherwise, it's sickeningly sweet. I've seen it with drained marachino cherries, too.

And I couldn't eat organ meat if you paid me! If something filters out the impurities of an animal, it can't possible be good for a human.

Steak and Kidney pie is awesome and I miss it! Kidney has a very unique flavour. Once it's cleaned and cooked, it's all about the meat and not its prior function. Of course I was the only one out of four siblings who would eat kidney or liver so...

Glad that's a dessert, otherwise I might puke. I don't possess a sweet tooth so that amount of sugar is sickly.

[CUGreekgirl]

When all the kids in the family were small we used to have a ham and a bunch of other yummy traditional stuff. Now that the "baby" of the family is 13, we go a less traditional route and grill out hamburgers and hotdogs.

[NUBlue&Blue]

Thanks for the link, honeychile! We've discussed it a few times and my mom always said, "I don't know, maybe because it's full of fruits and nuts?" So it looks like somebody named it that for a catchy headline and the rest is history.

Like all jello/pudding/coolwhip side dishes, at least for midwesterners, Watergate Salad is the bridge between lunch and dessert. You stuff your face until you're ready to burst, then go through the line again for a big clump of Watergate Salad, 7-up Salad or some kind of jello with strawberries and whipped cream. Then you plop yourself in a chair for an hour or so before you go for a piece of pie or cake and a cup of coffee.

(After you play cards and the kids run wild looking for eggs and eating chocolate, your grandma will insist you all have a sandwich for the road because you must be famished by now!)

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I love Watergate Salad, but nobody else in my family does. *sigh* I was, however, intrigued by your question. So - here's your answer! I did not know that there was also a Watergate Cake!

For the uninitiated:

Watergate Salad

1 package (4-serving size) Jell-O Pistachio Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup chopped walnuts nuts
2 cups thawed Cool Whip Topping

Stir the pudding mix, pineapple with juice, marshmallows and nuts in large bowl until well blended. Gently stir in whipped topping. Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve. Garnish as desired.

Makes 8 servings

I've eaten it or coconut, marshmallow, mandarin orange, pineapple, maraschino cherry, and sour cream Ambrosia as salad, even though, I can see why both would seem more like dessert.

[alum]

We're doing the usual ham, garlic rosemary mashed potatoes, green beans almondine.

It will be our first Easter without our oldest at home. Hopefully the university dining services will have something nice for the students.

[Munchkin03]

That Watergate Salad sounds wretched.

Easter lunch with the boy was amazing! I grilled chicken and apple sausage with fresh garlic and cayenne pepper. Then, I made a pasta with fresh tomatoes and fresh parsley, with Parmesan cheese to boot. Homemade apple pie a la mode for dessert. If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, I may be halfway there yet.