Deb Julienne shares her Thanksgiving recipes.
Watergate Salad
Watergate Salad
This first recipe is a
delightful fruit salad. What’s great about it is that we serve it with
our Thanksgiving dinner and we also eat it as a dessert.
Watergate Salad (It’s not what it appears to be)1 pkg pistachio pudding mix
1 can pineapple chunks in its own juices
1 cup marsh mellows
1 cup macadamia nuts halves
1 giant container of cool whip
1 cup pineapple chunks
Pour pudding mix in a
mixing bowl, open pineapple and drain all the liquid into the bowl, (no
fruit), whisk until well mixed. Fold in the cool whip, it will be a
pretty shade of pale mint green when done. Fold in marsh mellows. Fold
in Macadamia nuts. Fold in 1 cup of pineapple chunks. Pour into your
serving dish, making sure it’s completely blended, and place in fridge
for 2 hours. This is a fabulous and easy salad to make for any dinner,
not just Thanksgiving.
I like to decorate the
top with a small dollop of whip cream dead center. then alternate a
marshmellow and a macadamia nut have around the edge...and a maraschino
cherry on the whip cream. And I usually serve it in a clear crystal bowl
so the color can show through.
We love this salad - daughter Kristen would be devastated if she couldn't have it maybe not Thanksgiving but most certainly Christmas. It's green!
It looks delicious! I'll have to share it with my daughter!
This looks delicious. I ate once somewhere and loved it. I'm printing your recipe.
I've seen variations of this...but this version is the one I like best. My FIL loved it and had to have it for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Oh, yum!!
This is one of my favorite non-salad, salad! I love it. I'd lost my recipe, thanks for sharing it. I will put it in my recipe book.
I will definitely try this recipe. It looks easy and very festive for the holidays.
I've tried other recipes...nothing gets the consistency right but this one...and Scarlet, I'm with you...favorite non-salad.