Posted on 11/21/2020 5:45:38 AM PST by mylife
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you probably do it through consuming food. We asked Cracked readers on Facebook, "What Thanksgiving dish is a tradition in your family but might be considered weird to others?" Some responses sounded delicious, others ... not so much. But regardless, we were amazed at how many things Americans can make with some Cool Whip and Jello.
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
See post 28!
Lime/tuna Jello mold
Agnolini, pronounced approximately the way you spelled it = an yoo LEE nee.
I try to do that .
Thanksgiving is never complete without my late grandmother’s cranberries in red wine sauce recipe. They go with everything else on the plate. Ambrose.
Yes, my grandmother made that, too (only just a pound of cranberries, an orange with entire rind, and some sugar—the proportion of which used to be a family argument) and I have continued the tradition. I even use an old-fashioned food grinder like she did.
Thanks, harpolemond! Saved to recipe file on hard drive!
Yup.
That’s the way we say it.
Everyone in the family has their own version of mom’s basics - the turkey, the stuffing, sweet potatoes, green beans almondine, waldorf salad, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls of some kind plus pumpkin and mince meat pies: and depending on the numbers to be served there could also be a ham.
But the unique one dish we never run across with any other family is a side dish (I call it a palate cleanser) I still make every year.
It does not have a name but when we speak of it we would say that “lime jello thing”.
Ingredients:
1 6 oz package lime jello
1 20 oz can of crushed pineapple (packed in pineapple juice, not sweetened juice)
1 8 oz package Philadelphia Cream cheese
The entire process is done the nite before, so the end product has time to jell in the fridge.
1- Before time to start the mixing:
A. Ahead of time drain, the crushed pineapple (I use a wire mesh bowl) into a container, separating and saving the juice. This is done ahead of time so the juice is already well separated when you are ready to mix things. I leave this step working in the refrigerator so the juice remains cold.
B - Leave the Philadelphia cream cheese out of the fridge for a an hour or two before starting to mix things, The mixing will go easier if it is already softened.
The mixing:
2- Mix the Jello with two cups of boiling hot water into a very large bowl - much larger than needed to contain the mixture. Mix until well blended. (A very large bowl helps eliminate splatter escaping the bowl later on during later mixing).
3 - Cut, spoon, or chunk the Philadelphia cream cheese into the bowl of hot jello.
4- On high speed with an electric mixer, mix the hot jello and cream cheese until the mixture appears as one - the cream cheese and jello are totally combined - and the top is frothy.
5- Pour the pre-drained pineapple juice into a two cup measuring cup. Add enough cold water to give you two cups of cold liquid. (leave the crushed pineapple in the fridge)
6- Mix the cold liquid into the jello-cream cheese mixture, the same way as when mixing the jello with the cream cheese - high speed, creating a very well mixed mixture.
7- Pour the mixture into an 8 x 8 square pan.
8- Place the pan in the fridge.
9- After the mixture has jelled for at least a couple hours, remove it from the fridge and fold in the crushed pineapple. This is done this way because if the crushed pineapple is added before the mixture has jelled at all, then all the pineapple will be on the bottom of the mixture, instead of being mixed throughout it).
And that’s it.
It is the combination of the lime with the pineapple and the cream cheese that makes the dish refreshing during the course of big meal.
Hope your daughters remain a comfort to you :)
I should have noted that I posted the precise spelling so people could easily look up the recipes on the net! Mmmm!
GF not so much ... but hey, can't make her happy 100% of the time. 99.996% has been the best I can do. :-)
Good luck! It’s really been foolproof for us. No basting!
She was really beautiful.
That’s on my bucket list!
You MUST post the recipe for bacon bread. MUST : )
Agree. She is so beautiful. And from your love for her, I am guessing an absolutely beautiful soul.
God bless you and your family.
Prayers up.
I would love to see the recipe. Homemade everything is better. Your post reminds me of one of my great uncles, a retired farmer, who learned to make fabulous yeast rolls. He’d always send a dozen home with every visit and the kids couldn’t wait to get into them :-) Hard to believe he has been gone almost 20 years :-(
Thanksgiving BOOKMARK.
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