When I was a very small child, my mom dressed me up in my blue and white polka-dot coat and took me to see Santa. She did not go up to Santa with me, but my brothers did. We sat on Santa’s lap and told him what we wanted for Christmas. When we returned to my mom’s side, she took my brothers aside and asked them what I told Santa I wanted. Disgustedly, my 4-year old brothers told my mom I wanted a blueberry birthday cake.
A picture of me ran in the paper that year. I’m wide-eyed as I held up my knitted mitten to greet Santa.
40 years later, my eyes aren’t that wide. I still wear blue and white polka dots. I still have odd conversations with old men, although not usually while sitting on their laps. My brothers are still confounded by me, but less disgusted. Any knitted mittens I wear now, I knit myself. The request for blueberry birthday cake has become a request for much more practical things. (And I’m adult now, I’ll eat blueberry birthday cake any time I want to, I don’t have to wait for Christmas.)
This is where it would be completely awesome for me to whip out my recipe for blueberry cake of some sort and tell you all that it makes Christmas dinner perfect, but, sadly, I don’t have that recipe in my collection. What I do have, though, is Holiday Confetti Salad.
Doesn’t that just sound like a party in your mouth?
(Insert your favorite dad joke here about “throwing” this dish together or “tossing” the salad. You know, because of “Confetti”.)
You know, when I think Christmas dinner, I don’t think about crown roast or fruitcake (although I have some of that sitting in sherry getting ready for Christmas), I just imagine cutting into a nicely molded congealed salad. Holiday Confetti Salad does not disappoint.
Lime, celery, pineapple, and cherries combine with cream cheese and whipped cream to create a pale green cloud flecked with small red bits. The Holiday Confetti Salad is quite festive looking, especially when garnished with more maraschino cherries and celery leaves.
I made this before I had proper molds, so the only pictures I have of this beautiful salad are in a glass bowl. I’d love it if someone else made this and posted pictures for me to see.
The Recipe:
If you like this recipe, check out Fluffy Orange Salad, 24, 24 Hour Salad, Something Different Rhubarb Salad, and Blueberry Salad Mold.
Frosty Lemon Salad is refreshing in a way you wouldn’t normally think of. Cucumbers fresh from our garden, and celery make a nice counterpoint to the sweetness of the pineapple. I did not serve with lettuce and cherries. The creamy layer was a bit loose, as you can see. No one complained that this was gross, so it must’ve been ok. (Mom just told me that it was Martin VanBuren and his set that coined the term O.K., who knew?)
