In the South the "salad" table at the potluck or church dinner is chock full of everything from potato salad, pea salad, bean salads, fruit salads, meat salads, pasta salads, right on down to what we refer to as "green salads" which are lettuce & tomato. Much like That Midwestern Mom, the South is chock full of salads that aren't really salads (at least not in the traditional sense. 😂
I just discovered The Midwestern Mom on IG last month. Love her! She mentions that salads are any side dish that has chopped pieces or little chunks of stuff. Pretty good definition, iyam.
Salads apart from green salads and deli salads are indeed traditional. “Salad” used to be the culinary term for ingredients that were chopped and mixed together, which is why there is a rich history of dessert salads and sandwich-filling salads. Regulating salads to primarily garden salads is a recent development, post-WWII.
I need that cookbook!! I live in Florida, and one summer (about 25 years ago), we were in a drought, having terrible wildfires, and it was at least 99 degrees to over 100 every day. That summer was "the Summer of Salad" and will forever after be known as that. Every single day the only thing I wanted to eat was salad. I made pasta salads, green salads, cole slaw, chicken salad, tuna salad, radish salad, cucumber salad, you name it. If I could put it in a salad bowl and chill it, it became salad. Now and then I'd force myself to turn on the stove or oven to cook (steak for instance or chicken), but leftovers? They became salad! It was the only way I could survive that summer. So YES, I need a giant salad cookbook. This may be another Summer of Salad. Perhaps, Summer of Salad 2.0.
Years ago in the 60s my cousin gave the recipe for 5 Cup Salad! A cup each of mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, shredded sweetened coconut and sour cream!! It was so delicious! ❤ hugs from Michigan! I love old cookbooks!
We called it”ambrosia” and I made it for every little league game for my son, he’s now 32 with toddlers so guess who’s bringing some to their house even tho the other women in our extended family are Southern women (I’m a yankee but been in FL 30 years) so I let them be the 🌟 with their pistachio ambrosia salad bc it’s fluffy heavenly!!!
I have been known to “MyGyver” Thousand Island dressing from condiments packets from the cafeteria at work when I forget my dressing. Mayo, pickle relish and ketchup. I posted that mishap in a cooking group on FB. Someone gave me grief. I shared it because that’s a super basic hack. Sometimes, hacks are how you get out of paying $1.50 for a pack of dressing. Love your channel. I love that you make the recipes as they’re written, because sometimes they are perfect in their original state. I love old recipes. Currently working on a recipe that my mom made that she never wrote down. When I get it right, I would like to share it with you. It’s THAT amazing!
Growing up, my Dad always made ambrosia salad for any holiday, he sometimes added maraschino cherries and walnuts. Watching this video make me want to make some! Great video Anna.
Many years ago I tasted a fruit salad with sour cream base. It was so good I've always used sour cream since then. The fruits add sweetness, if you add coconut it adds more sweetness. My favorite fruits for this are mandarin oranges, bananas, apples, peaches and grapes. Occasionally I add chopped walnuts or coconut.
Ha, ha, ha, you sound like my mother. She fixed celery sticks for us kids, growing up. My mom's potato salad had iceberg lettuce, never seen it ever. When I got older asked her where she got her recipe. We loved it. Mom said the recipe used celery, but she didn't like celery, so she used iceberg lettuce. She's been 20 years I make once in awhile , but never tasted like hers . Used to make and take to picnic but people wouldn't eat so stopped, and just make for me, I'm 72. I enjoy your video's, thank you
Growing up (in the 80s) my grandma always made what she called Thousand Island Dressing. It's just mayo, ketchup, and horseradish sauce. It's soooo delicious on a wedge salad. Simple but so good.
Long ago in Seattle there was a department store tea room that had a “thousand island “ that had pickle relish ,chopped egg , and CAVIAR! People still tell stories of a day out with grandma and the “fancy “ lunch downtown.
You'd probably like Orange Fluff with orange Jello, Cool Whip, Cottage Cheese, canned Mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits, sometimes chopped pecans --- there are other variations here and there. The Jello powder is stirred into the Cool Whip, so it's not like a Jello salad. So dang good, I need to make it this week.
My aunt used to make a taco salad that called for Doritos and a bottle of Western salad dressing. It was great, but way too sweet. Nothing better than a taco salad.
Yep! As long as you served it on a lettuce leaf, it was a salad. The strangest I’ve ever seen a recipe for (maybe 1920s?) was a sliced banana topped with mayonnaise and then sprinkled with popcorn. But since it was plated on a single lettuce leaf it was magically a salad.
I'm married to someone who will not tolerate any onion in anything I make, so I've learned how to deal with cooking without onions and I've been doing it for 32 years now. We were both born the year this cookbook came out, so that's fun.
@acaliaaidras5012 And yet I'll bet he happily gobbles down restauarant food that is laden down with onions as both ingredient and seasoning. What a baby.. he needs to grow up. And cooked onions are sweet! Who doesn't like sweet? We are programmed to love both fat and sweet for survival purposes, yet your man-child won't eat onion. Ugh.. insufferable.
Mmm, Ambrosia Salad! I also love a salad similar to Ambrosia salad made simply with a tub of Cool Whip, a package of pistachio pudding mix, and a can of pineapple tidbits.. all mixed together and chilled. Keep these nostalgic recipes coming! 🥰
I made something very similar to this in my Amish Style Recipes video a few months ago. The cookbook called it Pistachio Salad, but it's also known as Watergate Salad or Pistachio Fluff. 😀
@@mizg1595 Traditionally, Watergate salad is similar, but it involves pistachio pudding and pecans. It's also made with whipped cream rather than sour cream. The recipe was designed by General Foods to sell their Jell-O brand pistachio pudding, and it was originally titled Pistachio Pineapple Delight. Fans nicknamed the salad after the very similar Watergate Cake -- another General Foods recipe, in which a pistachio pudding cake is "covered up" with an icing. Both the cake and the later salad were developed and marketed in the 1970s.
Always make my own Thousand Island salad dressing with mayo, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sweet pickle relish and a bit of the juice and a bit of garlic powder. It is a must have to go on a Chef's Salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, diced ham, turkey and cheddar cheese, with a halved hard boiled egg. My husband asks for this meal on a regular basis.
I live in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago and pretty much all Slavic grocery stores with prepared foods have cucumbers in sour cream. Your recipe sounds similar to the salads they make but they use regular cucumbers that are peeled and add dill (an herb in a ton of Eastern European recipes). They also make a cucumber salad that is in sort of a sweet and sour vinaigrette.
Armenians have a salad with thickened yogurt or sour cream, parsley and cucumbers. You live in a great neighborhood. LOTS of food places, plus an Aldi, and a Jewel.
All summer, my weird grandma always had a cool whip container of sliced cucumbers, onions, and a bit of white vinegar in her fridge. She would sometimes add a dollop of sour cream to her portion before eating. She also always had a margarine tub (she called it Oleo) of peeled, sliced, fresh tomatoes. That side of my family loved a good weird salad. The bright green pistachio pudding one, ambrosia variants, carrots and raisins, pea salad with chunks of cheddar cheese, etc. She used to make this set lime jello and pineapple concoction that was served in a baking pan and had this super weird off white topping layer. I have no idea what was in it. I didn't eat that one. I really miss a good pot luck table full of salads in every color.
@staceyn2541 Why would you talk about your grandma like that? She had food on-hand for you, and did her best to give you a healthy delicious meal. Your words just make me very very sad, actually.
I call her my weird grandma because my kids couldn't remember who was who in the family. I have my weird grandma and my country granny. I had a Papa Pete, Papa Ward, and the one who died before they were born, married to weird grandma. Re-read my post and you will see, that you saw the word weird and placed your own connotations on that word. Nothing I said after that was derogatory, I was only talking about my memories. She was the weird one because of some of the things she ate or how she fed me. Have you ever eaten uncooked jello on toast? What would YOU call that? Because I can tell you what us kids called it.
I just love your videos! They’re fun and interesting and I enjoy your sense of humor. I too am a buckeye and I grew up leafing through my Mom’s Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book. In my opinion those photos and illustrations are top notch. Definitely formed many happy childhood memories with that book at the kitchen table!❤
I’m glad to hear there’s someone else who doesn’t care for raw celery. No matter how the celery is served, my mouth still says “yuck, tow rope with topping.” The dressings sound delicious. And I really love the whisk!
I like celery as a dipper/peanut butter/chicken wing thing but I can live without it as an ingredient. But the texture and flavor have no business being so assertive.
I love your channel! I love old cookbooks, too. I got married in the mid ‘60s so I remember recipes from the ‘40s and ‘50s that we ate at home when I was a kid and then from the ‘60s on that I made (or saw recipes for) when I was cooking for my family. I have a salad recipe of my grandmother’s that has fruit and cheese and whipped cream in it that could also be a dessert. (Edited out a stupid typo 😣)
Yum! Anna everytime I watch you I have this strong feeling that I know you from somewhere! I live in the Akron, Ohio area. It drives me crazy because I keep trying to think of where I know you from when I watch you.
🤍🤚Hi Anna , I want to mention that back in the 1980s working in Los Angeles Office building Lunch Lady Basket meals ... She sold this Sandwich called " Ambrosia " . Not the ThanksGivings & Christmas Table Salad dessert one though. A Banana Bread ( with Walnuts ) mini Sandwiches , with a layer of Creme Cheese , and then a single layer of fresh Fruit , like Strawberrys , Delicious ! Interesting with Cottage Cheese , I would Veganize , but make into a recreation Green Leaf large entree plate Fruit Salad from PennyFeathers Cafe , Los Angeles. Also served with Cottage Cheese , & with 1000 too : )
Hey, Anna! I discovered your videos a few days ago. Watching them is like a time capsule. It was AWESOME to see you use the same yellow 1970's tupperware measuring cups my mom had( I think 2 or 3 of them are still hanging around in her cabinets). You also have the same Correll(spelling?) dish set design my grandma had!! Thank you for bringing back all those memories of chicken fried steak and potatoes with onions on her covered porch. I practice Keto so I am not inclined to cook vintage but you are such a charming light spirit -- I laugh a lot as I watch your videos.
I eat cucumbers pretty much every day. I slice them up, along with sweet onion, and add some cherry or grape tomatoes. Then I have a spary bottle with apple cider vinegar. A few spritzes with that, some salt, maybe a light dusting of pepper. Fresh & Delicious!
The cucumber salad looks similar to a Polish one I make at home called Mizeria! The main difference is you'd add dill instead of parsley, lots of different ways to make it depending on family preference. I've seen it made with greek yogurt or sour cream and I've tried both ways and its so yummy either way!
It seems to my memory that the ambrosia that showed up at my family reunions (and other assemblages of relatives that included a buffet table) had a dressing made with whipped cream or Cool Whip or the like. There may have been other components, but it definitely had a whipped cream vibe to it. And it DEFINITELY had Mandarin orange segments. Oh, those juicy little gems! To this day, I can sit down with a large can of Mandarin orange segments and a spoon and pretty much make a dinner of it.
What gets me about fruit cocktail is the grapes. Canned grapes. No. When I was a kid my mom made something more “desserty,” Fruit cocktail, coconut, marshmallows and cool whip or whipped cream. Haven’t had it in 40 years, but I liked it then. Thanks for the video.
I used to love a watermelon basket salad. We had our engagement party in 1993. My friend made me a watermelon basket the day prior to the party but she sprinkled champagne on just the watermelon.
I agree with you. That Thousand Island dressing was more like Big Mac special sauce. Even though I've seen copycat recipes for that, most don't put horseradish in. It definitely has some horseradish! My thousand Island always had relish in it. It could be sweet or dill. Some recipes even put chopped hard boiled egg in it! The chunks were the " islands". Hence, the name.
This is a little off topic. I really love your channel and I love cooking and I love food and recipes. When you talk about the books it really speaks to me. It makes me think about cookbooks that we keep and those these get rid of. At one point got rid of most of my cookbooks because there were only one or two recipes that I enjoyed. So I pulled those recipes out and I put them in my personal cookbook. Then gave away the book. I started getting most of my recipes online but recently I’ve been looking at cookbooks again. The reason for this is that I picked up a novelty cookbook for World of Warcraft which is a video game. Just about every recipe in that cookbook has been a winner. I ended up buying one for my sister and we’re slowly cooking through this cookbook. It makes me think about cookbooks we grew up on and what cookbooks are going to go to our children are nieces or nephews and this World of Warcraft cookbook is definitely going to be one of them.
I love ambrosia salad! Haven't had anyin many years though. My mom used to serve it as a holiday side dish, especially when my grandparents were coming over. I remember hers had a lot of canned mandarin oranges in it along with the other fruit.
Your energy is delightful! Thank you for sharing all these videos. Salad or vegetable ones are my particular favorites. It gets me more excited to eat those things.
LOVE ambrosia salad! Never seen this one and I have to try it! Great video! 😃✨ Oh, and I so appreciate the time it takes to put the recipes in the description! I screen shot most of them from your videos and store them in a recipes folder. Thank you!!
My husband isn’t a fan of celery either. So I usually make whatever the recipe is with out the celery then I just take how much I want and add celery to mine only. Then he doesn’t have to pick it out.
If you dislike celery, try stuffing stalks of it with cream cheese mixed with Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise because you need the vinegar tang). Yum! This was how mom used up extra celery stalks on holidays. And the ambrosia I know and love has the fruit, but extra maraschino cherries cut up. No coconut, but chopped walnuts or pecans. Nuts are optional. My mom used to let us use extra marshmallows. And a version that mixes cool whip instead of cottage cheese. It’s much sweeter, but I loved that too. Brings back childhood memories. My grandma used to make what she called ham salad. It was made with fresh ground up bologna and ground up baby pickles, along with some juice. Mixed with Miracle Whip. I still do not like regular ham salad to this day, but loved this, even though I disliked bologna.
I have that book! I haven’t tried any recipes from it yet. Wow, 500 salad recipes is a lot! I finally got a bookshelf and organized the books so they are together and easy to find. 😊
The illustration of the candle salad was great, but have you seen the version Amy Sedaris made on At Home With Amy Sedaris? Such a fun show that was cancelled too soon, and some great old recipes too.
A restaurant I enjoyed, that has since gone out of business had a thousand island dressing to die for. , it seemed to have BEETS in it. Amazing !! If anyone has the recipe for this one, I’d so appreciate it!
Ambrosia has been on the table every Easter and some Thanksgivings from time out of mind in my family. It's the 'sweet' salad. That cucumber sour cream salad was common when cucumbers ripened. Those are old, well loved recipes.
My gramma and mom would make thousand island with mayo, ketchup, lemon juice, relish, onion powder, and garlic powder. But the cream cheese sounds amazing.
My mom made tomato aspic with asparagus when i was a kid. It was a huge favourite of mine....i should ask for the recipe. Ive never made it...but was super fancy and totally yummy ...i should give it a go. Thanks for the inspo
I share that midwest love of salads as a sign of spring. 😄 My heart belongs to the 1960s & 70s, so this video was perfect for me! I will definitely be making that cucumber salad (a slightly different twist on the one I've made for years).
Hi Anna wow over 500 salads in there that is a lot. Love your bowl . I love cucumber salads I am not sure if I would be a fan of the Ambrosia salad myself. I need to make my Mom's potato salad on a video. You have my wheels turning. Hubby likes making a homemade thousand island dressing it is very similar to the one you make but no cream cheese in his. and he puts relish and minced onion. that is a small bottle of tabasco sauce lol cute. I love cottage cheese too. I don't know about the marshmallows for me. The book sounds really interesting. I am looking forward to you sharing more from it. I really enjoyed hanging with ys today Anna. Always nice to see you. Have a beautiful day.
I loved this segment on salads. I would really like to try the ambrosia one. Please try to like celery 'cause it's your friend and hgh in electrolytes, so it's naturally hydrating. When i use it in potato salad stews, or soups, etc., i always dice it up really fine, for the reason that i like the flavor it adds to the recipe. I even add celery salt for an added boost in flavor sometimes. Celery is one of the healthiest vegetables you can add to your diet. I do understand if you don't like it, we can't like everything. ❤
I’ve never seen ambrosia salad without cool whip before. I’m so excited to try one without it! Edit: you keep hating celery! I support you! I like it now but used to dislike it a lot.
That first cucumber salad reminds me of one that I make quite often but mine is a little simpler, just sliced cucumbers with a few tablespoons of plain yogurt, sprinkled with paprika.
love your videos! i use some of the same recipe books. i also love seeing you use your vintage pyrex! i love mine, too and use it all the time! thanks, Anna
I am definitely trying the cottage cheese salad. The dressing recipe reminds me of Fry Sauce. In Utah, all the restaurants serve Fry Sauce and I got addicted when I lived in Utah for 12 years. I only live one state away now and nobody else has the fry sauce. I am curious to see if the 1000 Island is similar. Love your channel!
I found a Pillsbury Cook off recipe book at the thrift store yesterday-dated 1961!! Great recipes but it was fun looking at the ladies hairdos for that era! Fun!
❤ oh anna, I love celery! It's even my favorite nighttime snack! However, my oldest son is like you and does not care for much salary. We have agreed to disagree and I'm respectful of his dislike and rarely put much in any recipe. If I do it's always chopped very fine and a small amount. He seems fine with that so you are not the only one!
In the South the "salad" table at the potluck or church dinner is chock full of everything from potato salad, pea salad, bean salads, fruit salads, meat salads, pasta salads, right on down to what we refer to as "green salads" which are lettuce & tomato. Much like That Midwestern Mom, the South is chock full of salads that aren't really salads (at least not in the traditional sense. 😂
Up north too, at least in the Midwest.
I just discovered The Midwestern Mom on IG last month. Love her! She mentions that salads are any side dish that has chopped pieces or little chunks of stuff. Pretty good definition, iyam.
Yes!
haha😂 so true!
Salads apart from green salads and deli salads are indeed traditional. “Salad” used to be the culinary term for ingredients that were chopped and mixed together, which is why there is a rich history of dessert salads and sandwich-filling salads. Regulating salads to primarily garden salads is a recent development, post-WWII.
The broccoli salad (very Southern) is worth trying. When made right, it is outstanding.
😋Broccoli salad is definitely a favorite of mine.
I need that cookbook!! I live in Florida, and one summer (about 25 years ago), we were in a drought, having terrible wildfires, and it was at least 99 degrees to over 100 every day. That summer was "the Summer of Salad" and will forever after be known as that. Every single day the only thing I wanted to eat was salad. I made pasta salads, green salads, cole slaw, chicken salad, tuna salad, radish salad, cucumber salad, you name it. If I could put it in a salad bowl and chill it, it became salad. Now and then I'd force myself to turn on the stove or oven to cook (steak for instance or chicken), but leftovers? They became salad! It was the only way I could survive that summer. So YES, I need a giant salad cookbook. This may be another Summer of Salad. Perhaps, Summer of Salad 2.0.
Years ago in the 60s my cousin gave the recipe for 5 Cup Salad! A cup each of mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, shredded sweetened coconut and sour cream!! It was so delicious! ❤ hugs from Michigan! I love old cookbooks!
I love 5 cup salad! 😋
Yes!!! 5 cup salad!!! Later Tahitian or Ambrosia salad.
All a marketing ploy to sell more salads😂.
We called it”ambrosia” and I made it for every little league game for my son, he’s now 32 with toddlers so guess who’s bringing some to their house even tho the other women in our extended family are Southern women (I’m a yankee but been in FL 30 years) so I let them be the 🌟 with their pistachio ambrosia salad bc it’s fluffy heavenly!!!
We called that One-Cup Salad in my family because it was one cup of each ingredient.
I have been known to “MyGyver” Thousand Island dressing from condiments packets from the cafeteria at work when I forget my dressing. Mayo, pickle relish and ketchup. I posted that mishap in a cooking group on FB. Someone gave me grief. I shared it because that’s a super basic hack. Sometimes, hacks are how you get out of paying $1.50 for a pack of dressing. Love your channel. I love that you make the recipes as they’re written, because sometimes they are perfect in their original state. I love old recipes. Currently working on a recipe that my mom made that she never wrote down. When I get it right, I would like to share it with you. It’s THAT amazing!
I think that's a smart hack. Some people get their underwear in a twist about the most innocuous things. 🙄
Growing up, my Dad always made ambrosia salad for any holiday, he sometimes added maraschino cherries and walnuts. Watching this video make me want to make some! Great video Anna.
Many years ago I tasted a fruit salad with sour cream base. It was so good I've always used sour cream since then. The fruits add sweetness, if you add coconut it adds more sweetness. My favorite fruits for this are mandarin oranges, bananas, apples, peaches and grapes. Occasionally I add chopped walnuts or coconut.
Oh boy that sounds good.
Ha, ha, ha, you sound like my mother. She fixed celery sticks for us kids, growing up. My mom's potato salad had iceberg lettuce, never seen it ever. When I got older asked her where she got her recipe. We loved it. Mom said the recipe used celery, but she didn't like celery, so she used iceberg lettuce. She's been 20 years I make once in awhile , but never tasted like hers . Used to make and take to picnic but people wouldn't eat so stopped, and just make for me, I'm 72. I enjoy your video's, thank you
I love lettuce in place of celery!! Our Mothers did what they could to get our veggies in and make it taste delicious!! ❤
My grandma did once in awhile when she ran out of celery as well
I love how potatoe salad changes; my grandma added crisp chopped bacon to hers, I replaces the celery for chopped fresh jalapeños.
Growing up (in the 80s) my grandma always made what she called Thousand Island Dressing. It's just mayo, ketchup, and horseradish sauce. It's soooo delicious on a wedge salad. Simple but so good.
That is how i make it!! I use this dressing for a prawn (shrimp) cocktail ❤️❤️💚🇦🇺
love this foray into the Salad Cinematic Universe
Long ago in Seattle there was a department store tea room that had a “thousand island “ that had pickle relish ,chopped egg , and CAVIAR! People still tell stories of a day out with grandma and the “fancy “ lunch downtown.
Yes julie, the chopped egg was/is the "islands" in Thousand Island dressing. 🙂
That must have been Frederick & Nelson! As a child my granny would take me there to the Cascade Room and we’d have Cobb Salads. Loved that place!
You'd probably like Orange Fluff with orange Jello, Cool Whip, Cottage Cheese, canned Mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits, sometimes chopped pecans --- there are other variations here and there. The Jello powder is stirred into the Cool Whip, so it's not like a Jello salad. So dang good, I need to make it this week.
I make this too! I make it with sugar free jello and sugar free cool whip. Low fat cottage cheese. Makes a great low calorie dessert!
I make that jello salad every month. I love to eat it after lunch or dinner. So good and inexpensive to make.
My thousand island is mayo, ketchup, minced onion, and pickle relish. This new one, Olen's, is intriguing! 😋
That is my old one as well and we like it, but now we have to try the Olen's!😃
Oh back in the days when anything could be a salad 😂 personally my favorite salad is a taco salad
My aunt used to make a taco salad that called for Doritos and a bottle of Western salad dressing. It was great, but way too sweet. Nothing better than a taco salad.
@@staceyn2541 I've genuinely never heard of that 🤔 the only "dressing" we ever used was salsa
Yep! As long as you served it on a lettuce leaf, it was a salad. The strangest I’ve ever seen a recipe for (maybe 1920s?) was a sliced banana topped with mayonnaise and then sprinkled with popcorn. But since it was plated on a single lettuce leaf it was magically a salad.
@@staceyn2541 our family made the same one!
Me too.😍😍😍
I like savory salads: crab salad, ham salad, taco, pasta, etc.❤😋
I'm married to someone who will not tolerate any onion in anything I make, so I've learned how to deal with cooking without onions and I've been doing it for 32 years now. We were both born the year this cookbook came out, so that's fun.
That's me I HATE raw onion. But I wish I didn't bc its in everything it feels like.
@acaliaaidras5012 And yet I'll bet he happily gobbles down restauarant food that is laden down with onions as both ingredient and seasoning. What a baby.. he needs to grow up. And cooked onions are sweet! Who doesn't like sweet? We are programmed to love both fat and sweet for survival purposes, yet your man-child won't eat onion. Ugh.. insufferable.
@@lisahinton9682 WOW. Calm down, it's just an onion. 🙄
Mmm, Ambrosia Salad! I also love a salad similar to Ambrosia salad made simply with a tub of Cool Whip, a package of pistachio pudding mix, and a can of pineapple tidbits.. all mixed together and chilled.
Keep these nostalgic recipes coming! 🥰
I made something very similar to this in my Amish Style Recipes video a few months ago. The cookbook called it Pistachio Salad, but it's also known as Watergate Salad or Pistachio Fluff. 😀
That’s Green Stuff in our house
@@mizg1595 Traditionally, Watergate salad is similar, but it involves pistachio pudding and pecans. It's also made with whipped cream rather than sour cream. The recipe was designed by General Foods to sell their Jell-O brand pistachio pudding, and it was originally titled Pistachio Pineapple Delight. Fans nicknamed the salad after the very similar Watergate Cake -- another General Foods recipe, in which a pistachio pudding cake is "covered up" with an icing. Both the cake and the later salad were developed and marketed in the 1970s.
Yes, they called it 'Watergate' salad because it was full of fruits and nuts ... LOL!!!
My mom used to make that. She called it Watergate Salad. Why she called it that not sure.
Anything can be a salad! **sips fermented grape "salad"** These salads look great though, and that ambrosia!! 😍😋
Always make my own Thousand Island salad dressing with mayo, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sweet pickle relish and a bit of the juice and a bit of garlic powder. It is a must have to go on a Chef's Salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, diced ham, turkey and cheddar cheese, with a halved hard boiled egg. My husband asks for this meal on a regular basis.
I love it when you cook my childhood.😊
I live in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago and pretty much all Slavic grocery stores with prepared foods have cucumbers in sour cream. Your recipe sounds similar to the salads they make but they use regular cucumbers that are peeled and add dill (an herb in a ton of Eastern European recipes). They also make a cucumber salad that is in sort of a sweet and sour vinaigrette.
Armenians have a salad with thickened yogurt or sour cream, parsley and cucumbers.
You live in a great neighborhood. LOTS of food places, plus an Aldi, and a Jewel.
I loved visiting Ukranian Village when we lived in Chicago. 😀
@@cooking_the_books there are so many great bakeries in this hood!
Love how almost anything could be a salad! I love celery and would happily eat a celery only salad.
All summer, my weird grandma always had a cool whip container of sliced cucumbers, onions, and a bit of white vinegar in her fridge. She would sometimes add a dollop of sour cream to her portion before eating. She also always had a margarine tub (she called it Oleo) of peeled, sliced, fresh tomatoes. That side of my family loved a good weird salad. The bright green pistachio pudding one, ambrosia variants, carrots and raisins, pea salad with chunks of cheddar cheese, etc. She used to make this set lime jello and pineapple concoction that was served in a baking pan and had this super weird off white topping layer. I have no idea what was in it. I didn't eat that one. I really miss a good pot luck table full of salads in every color.
I still love a good potluck. 😋
My grandma always called margarine Oleo too!
It is a great prized salad.
@staceyn2541
Why would you talk about your grandma like that? She had food on-hand for you, and did her best to give you a healthy delicious meal. Your words just make me very very sad, actually.
I call her my weird grandma because my kids couldn't remember who was who in the family. I have my weird grandma and my country granny. I had a Papa Pete, Papa Ward, and the one who died before they were born, married to weird grandma. Re-read my post and you will see, that you saw the word weird and placed your own connotations on that word. Nothing I said after that was derogatory, I was only talking about my memories. She was the weird one because of some of the things she ate or how she fed me. Have you ever eaten uncooked jello on toast? What would YOU call that? Because I can tell you what us kids called it.
When I go to a book sale, I always check out the cookbook section! ❤
The ambrosia salad was often served in the winter because we didn’t have as many winter fresh fruit options back then.
I just love your videos! They’re fun and interesting and I enjoy your sense of humor. I too am a buckeye and I grew up leafing through my Mom’s Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book. In my opinion those photos and illustrations are top notch. Definitely formed many happy childhood memories with that book at the kitchen table!❤
Yes this is a great find.
The cucumber salad looks yummy!
I really enjoyed it. ☺
I’m glad to hear there’s someone else who doesn’t care for raw celery. No matter how the celery is served, my mouth still says “yuck, tow rope with topping.” The dressings sound delicious. And I really love the whisk!
Yeah. Nice to see someone after my own heart on the matter!
I like celery as a dipper/peanut butter/chicken wing thing but I can live without it as an ingredient. But the texture and flavor have no business being so assertive.
My hubby says celery tastes like dirt. Then he said raw green peppers tasted like dirt. No no, you said celery. Ok... Spicy dirt.😂😂😂
I love watching your videos. I would love a recipe for your favorite yum-yum sauce, if you don't mind giving it to us.
@kathylanigan6745 just in case you didn't see it - I shared the link to my favorite yum yum sauce recipe on my community tab. 😁
I love your channel! I love old cookbooks, too. I got married in the mid ‘60s so I remember recipes from the ‘40s and ‘50s that we ate at home when I was a kid and then from the ‘60s on that I made (or saw recipes for) when I was cooking for my family.
I have a salad recipe of my grandmother’s that has fruit and cheese and whipped cream in it that could also be a dessert.
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Hi, dear Anna! I love you and your channel. Thank you for always doing such an amazing job!! ❤😊
Thank you for watching and for your kind words! ❤
Yum! Anna everytime I watch you I have this strong feeling that I know you from somewhere! I live in the Akron, Ohio area. It drives me crazy because I keep trying to think of where I know you from when I watch you.
🤍🤚Hi Anna , I want to mention that back in the 1980s working in Los Angeles Office building Lunch Lady Basket meals ... She sold this Sandwich called " Ambrosia " . Not the ThanksGivings & Christmas Table Salad dessert one though.
A Banana Bread ( with Walnuts ) mini Sandwiches , with a layer of Creme Cheese , and then a single layer of fresh Fruit , like Strawberrys , Delicious !
Interesting with Cottage Cheese , I would Veganize , but make into a recreation Green Leaf large entree plate Fruit Salad from PennyFeathers Cafe , Los Angeles. Also served with Cottage Cheese , & with 1000 too : )
Hey, Anna! I discovered your videos a few days ago. Watching them is like a time capsule. It was AWESOME to see you use the same yellow 1970's tupperware measuring cups my mom had( I think 2 or 3 of them are still hanging around in her cabinets). You also have the same Correll(spelling?) dish set design my grandma had!! Thank you for bringing back all those memories of chicken fried steak and potatoes with onions on her covered porch. I practice Keto so I am not inclined to cook vintage but you are such a charming light spirit -- I laugh a lot as I watch your videos.
I eat cucumbers pretty much every day. I slice them up, along with sweet onion, and add some cherry or grape tomatoes. Then I have a spary bottle with apple cider vinegar. A few spritzes with that, some salt, maybe a light dusting of pepper. Fresh & Delicious!
The cucumber salad looks similar to a Polish one I make at home called Mizeria! The main difference is you'd add dill instead of parsley, lots of different ways to make it depending on family preference. I've seen it made with greek yogurt or sour cream and I've tried both ways and its so yummy either way!
Thank you! I sure remember those salads!
It seems to my memory that the ambrosia that showed up at my family reunions (and other assemblages of relatives that included a buffet table) had a dressing made with whipped cream or Cool Whip or the like. There may have been other components, but it definitely had a whipped cream vibe to it. And it DEFINITELY had Mandarin orange segments. Oh, those juicy little gems! To this day, I can sit down with a large can of Mandarin orange segments and a spoon and pretty much make a dinner of it.
You're ok ith your feelings about celery! I feel the same about green peppers. 😄
What gets me about fruit cocktail is the grapes. Canned grapes. No.
When I was a kid my mom made something more “desserty,” Fruit cocktail, coconut, marshmallows and cool whip or whipped cream. Haven’t had it in 40 years, but I liked it then.
Thanks for the video.
Yay! A mini juicer link! Somehow, I thought it was no longer available. Thank you!
TI dressing with sliced fresh raw button mushrooms!
We have a deli in town that makes a turkey sandwich with TI dressing, sliced mushrooms, and bacon! Genius!
I used to love a watermelon basket salad. We had our engagement party in 1993. My friend made me a watermelon basket the day prior to the party but she sprinkled champagne on just the watermelon.
I agree with you. That Thousand Island dressing was more like Big Mac special sauce. Even though I've seen copycat recipes for that, most don't put horseradish in. It definitely has some horseradish! My thousand Island always had relish in it. It could be sweet or dill. Some recipes even put chopped hard boiled egg in it! The chunks were the " islands". Hence, the name.
I’d use that dressing as a sandwich spread. Looks delicious!
This is a little off topic. I really love your channel and I love cooking and I love food and recipes. When you talk about the books it really speaks to me. It makes me think about cookbooks that we keep and those these get rid of. At one point got rid of most of my cookbooks because there were only one or two recipes that I enjoyed. So I pulled those recipes out and I put them in my personal cookbook. Then gave away the book. I started getting most of my recipes online but recently I’ve been looking at cookbooks again. The reason for this is that I picked up a novelty cookbook for World of Warcraft which is a video game. Just about every recipe in that cookbook has been a winner. I ended up buying one for my sister and we’re slowly cooking through this cookbook. It makes me think about cookbooks we grew up on and what cookbooks are going to go to our children are nieces or nephews and this World of Warcraft cookbook is definitely going to be one of them.
More salad videos please! So nostalgic!
Your Channel is fascinating! I love watching you do your testing on recipes we all wonder about.
Thank you!
Always love your uploads. I have the ingredients to the Ambrosia - making it tomorrow. Thanks much!
When I serve sliced cucumber or cucumber sticks, I make a quick dressing of ketchup and mayonnaise. ❤
I love ambrosia salad! Haven't had anyin many years though. My mom used to serve it as a holiday side dish, especially when my grandparents were coming over. I remember hers had a lot of canned mandarin oranges in it along with the other fruit.
You can use the rest of the thousand island dressing to make Big Mac salad, so yummy!
I bought sour cream and English cucumbers this weekend so I can make this salad. Looks yummy!
Cherry tomatoes halved in the cucumber salad. The thickness would thin out.
Your energy is delightful! Thank you for sharing all these videos. Salad or vegetable ones are my particular favorites. It gets me more excited to eat those things.
I feel you on your celery struggles. I don't eat onions, and people can't handle that either.
I love Thousand Island, my family has a fantastic recipe for it and yes it does include hard boiled eggs.
LOVE ambrosia salad! Never seen this one and I have to try it! Great video! 😃✨
Oh, and I so appreciate the time it takes to put the recipes in the description! I screen shot most of them from your videos and store them in a recipes folder. Thank you!!
My granny mother made ambrosia rather often ❤
Thanks Anna, I enjoyed the video.
I remember the cottage cheese ambrosia from decades ago
I feel ya,never much of a celery girl myself!
My husband isn’t a fan of celery either. So I usually make whatever the recipe is with out the celery then I just take how much I want and add celery to mine only. Then he doesn’t have to pick it out.
If you dislike celery, try stuffing stalks of it with cream cheese mixed with Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise because you need the vinegar tang). Yum! This was how mom used up extra celery stalks on holidays. And the ambrosia I know and love has the fruit, but extra maraschino cherries cut up. No coconut, but chopped walnuts or pecans. Nuts are optional. My mom used to let us use extra marshmallows. And a version that mixes cool whip instead of cottage cheese. It’s much sweeter, but I loved that too. Brings back childhood memories. My grandma used to make what she called ham salad. It was made with fresh ground up bologna and ground up baby pickles, along with some juice. Mixed with Miracle Whip. I still do not like regular ham salad to this day, but loved this, even though I disliked bologna.
I have that book! I haven’t tried any recipes from it yet. Wow, 500 salad recipes is a lot! I finally got a bookshelf and organized the books so they are together and easy to find. 😊
The illustration of the candle salad was great, but have you seen the version Amy Sedaris made on At Home With Amy Sedaris? Such a fun show that was cancelled too soon, and some great old recipes too.
A restaurant I enjoyed, that has since gone out of business had a thousand island dressing to die for. , it seemed to have BEETS in it. Amazing !! If anyone has the recipe for this one, I’d so appreciate it!
Gam always used cottage cheese but she also added a jello pack normally orange.
I got the tiny juicer and whisk! I love them!
I love cucumber salad, so definitely going to try that.
Oh I'm so glad you enjoy them! ☺
I am with you on celery!
Ambrosia has been on the table every Easter and some Thanksgivings from time out of mind in my family. It's the 'sweet' salad. That cucumber sour cream salad was common when cucumbers ripened. Those are old, well loved recipes.
My gramma and mom would make thousand island with mayo, ketchup, lemon juice, relish, onion powder, and garlic powder. But the cream cheese sounds amazing.
My mom made tomato aspic with asparagus when i was a kid. It was a huge favourite of mine....i should ask for the recipe. Ive never made it...but was super fancy and totally yummy ...i should give it a go. Thanks for the inspo
I share that midwest love of salads as a sign of spring. 😄 My heart belongs to the 1960s & 70s, so this video was perfect for me! I will definitely be making that cucumber salad (a slightly different twist on the one I've made for years).
Anna, you are awesome.
Thank you! ❤
I love TI dressing! It's great on sandwiches too!
I make Watergate salad during the holidays, love it!!
I've tried the same thing with olives. I tried green, tried black, tried with various fillings and settings and no matter what I just hate them lol
I think that Thousand Island dressing would also make a really good chip dip. And the cucumber salad looked really good.
I might try crème fraîche instead of sour cream in ambrosia.
Hi Anna wow over 500 salads in there that is a lot. Love your bowl . I love cucumber salads I am not sure if I would be a fan of the Ambrosia salad myself. I need to make my Mom's potato salad on a video. You have my wheels turning. Hubby likes making a homemade thousand island dressing it is very similar to the one you make but no cream cheese in his. and he puts relish and minced onion. that is a small bottle of tabasco sauce lol cute. I love cottage cheese too. I don't know about the marshmallows for me. The book sounds really interesting. I am looking forward to you sharing more from it. I really enjoyed hanging with ys today Anna. Always nice to see you. Have a beautiful day.
Thanks for watching Jerri! You should definitely make your mom's potato salad for a video. 😋
You are not alone in not liking to eat certain types of foods and that’s okay. Another great video!
As you were making the ambrosia I was thinking I'd try it but swap out the fruit cocktail for maybe apple chunks and grapes. Great video very fun.
I love love love celery. But I get you. I -hate- hazelnuts. I -despise- Nutella. My family thinks I'm "nuts" LOL.
Hello from Minnesota! Love seeing the great cookbooks (I love old cookbooks too!) and watching you make things. I also hate celery: raw or cooked 😂
Just made the cucumber salad- yummy- but I used 1/2 the amount of sour cream- delicious
I met a lady named Ambrosia. All I could think was why on earth someone would name her that 🤭 Great video!
I agree about celery. I’m ok with it as an ingredient but not a main flavor. Raw celery makes my lips and tongue tingle, totally ok cooked.
I loved this segment on salads. I would really like to try the ambrosia one. Please try to like celery 'cause it's your friend and hgh in electrolytes, so it's naturally hydrating. When i use it in potato salad stews, or soups, etc., i always dice it up really fine, for the reason that i like the flavor it adds to the recipe. I even add celery salt for an added boost in flavor sometimes. Celery is one of the healthiest vegetables you can add to your diet. I do understand if you don't like it, we can't like everything. ❤
I’ve never seen ambrosia salad without cool whip before. I’m so excited to try one without it!
Edit: you keep hating celery! I support you!
I like it now but used to dislike it a lot.
That first cucumber salad reminds me of one that I make quite often but mine is a little simpler, just sliced cucumbers with a few tablespoons of plain yogurt, sprinkled with paprika.
love your videos! i use some of the same recipe books. i also love seeing you use your vintage pyrex! i love mine, too and use it all the time! thanks, Anna
I have this cookbook. Its fun to see the names and states related to each recipe. I enjoy your videos so much. Thank you for all your hard work.
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoy my videos. 😊
I am definitely trying the cottage cheese salad. The dressing recipe reminds me of Fry Sauce. In Utah, all the restaurants serve Fry Sauce and I got addicted when I lived in Utah for 12 years. I only live one state away now and nobody else has the fry sauce. I am curious to see if the 1000 Island is similar. Love your channel!
I found a Pillsbury Cook off recipe book at the thrift store yesterday-dated 1961!! Great recipes but it was fun looking at the ladies hairdos for that era! Fun!
I love ambrosia salad. Thank you for sharing your recipes with us. Very interesting. I really love your show!
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Thank you! ❤
I love your videos! This what I mean when I say salad. My mom made cucumber salad all the time she used dill and not garlic, she also used sour cream
So interesting to see how ingredients and meals have changed! Thank you!
I want to try that cucumber salad with chives instead of onion. I hate raw onion. It looks so good.
❤ oh anna, I love celery! It's even my favorite nighttime snack! However, my oldest son is like you and does not care for much salary. We have agreed to disagree and I'm respectful of his dislike and rarely put much in any recipe. If I do it's always chopped very fine and a small amount. He seems fine with that so you are not the only one!
These are some of my favorite cookbooks! I have a number from this set, and you are inspiring me to use them more!