Happy Friday everyone!!! Today I want to share a yummy recipe with y'all along with a fun giveaway. First let's start with the recipe. Have you ever heard of a Congealed Salad? If you're from the South not only have you heard of it, but I am sure you have consumed a couple varieties in your lifetime.
If you're not sure what a congealed salad is well let me tell you it's a little bit of heaven if you ask me. Congealed salads are quite popular in the south and are know as potluck or church food. It's a salad consisting of flavored gelatin, fruit and sometimes vegetables. Other ingredients can include cottage cheese, mayonnaise, marshmallows, whipped topping, nuts and pretzels.
By far the whipped topping version is my favorite. A holiday just wouldn't be a holiday if a Jell-O Salad wasn't gracing the table. My favorite it Strawberry, but I love this Buttermilk Creamsicle Salad just as much. I will actually be serving this salad over the Thanksgiving Holiday. If you're not sure what a congealed salad is well let me tell you it's a little bit of heaven if you ask me. Congealed salads are quite popular in the south and are know as potluck or church food. It's a salad consisting of flavored gelatin, fruit and sometimes vegetables. Other ingredients can include cottage cheese, mayonnaise, marshmallows, whipped topping, nuts and pretzels.
I found this recipe years back in a old (1970's) church cookbook and I've been making it ever since. Some recipes call for crushed pineapple, but I love using mandarin oranges instead. During Christmas and Easter I make a Pineapple Pretzel Salad that pairs perfectly with Ham. It's a new favorite I found last year and its so delicious.
If you're looking for a salad to make over Thanksgiving any of the ones I mentioned above will be perfect. Let the kids get involved in the preparation, because this is really simple to make. I usually let my daughter handle this one.
This Giveaway is Now Closed! The 2 Winners of the $20 Butterball Gift Checks are Comment #128 Hatlebersherri{at}johndeere.{com} & Comment #140 Peggy F.
Now onto the Giveaway. To help make Thanksgiving a little easier on your budget, I am partnering with my friends at Butterball to give two lucky Mommy's Kitchen readers a $20.00 gift check towards a turkey! I know these checks will come in handy for two very lucky families.
This is my 5th year partnering with Butterball, and it's always one of my favorite giveaways! This year Butterball is embracing everyone at the Thanksgiving Table and wants to know how you and I get our family involved in the holiday meal planning? Well that's easy for me, because I have a lot of helpers (my kids).
I always have family members or friends attending to contribute a dish or dessert. This is not only helpful for me, but it makes them feel special knowing they're contributing towards the big feast. My daughter usually goes grocery shopping with me which helps in case I forget something (like her favorite cranberry sauce). I always make homemade sauce, but she loves the canned jellied cranberry sauce.
Family meal planning is important, because I want to make sure I make every one's favorite dish. For my husband it's Ma Maw's Country Cornbread Dressing, my daughter loves Broccoli Rice Casserole, my oldest son's favorite is Hash brown Casserole and my little guy loves my Homemade Rolls. Getting everyone involved in the menu insures a meal everyone will love.
See below to find out how to enter the Butterball Turkey Giveaway!!! This will be a quick 3 day giveaway, because I want to make sure the winners receive their turkey checks in time for purchase.
How to Enter:
- Mandatory Entry:
Please leave a comment on this post letting me know how you get your family involved in your holiday meal planning? If your family doesn't help, let me know your absolute favorite Thanksgiving dish?
- Bonus Entry: (leave a separate comment for bonus entry)
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Giveaway starts today November 8th, 2013 and you have until 11:59 p.m. CST on November 10th, 2013, to leave a comment. I'll notify the (random) winners shortly after (please make sure I have some way to contact you or I will need to choose another winner). If you post Anonymously please leave your email in your comment. Winners will have 24 hours to reply with their mailing address or a new winner will be chosen. Contest open to US and Canadian Residents only.
Disclosure: Butterball provided me with (3) free butterball turkey checks. One for myself and two to use in a reader giveaway. I would like to thank Butterball for their continued relationship with Mommy's Kitchen.
Before I go I want to share the recipe for the Buttermilk Creamsicle Salad.
Buttermilk Creamsicle Salad
1 - (15 oz) can mandarin orange segments, separated (reserve juice)
2 - (3 oz) boxes or 1 (6oz) orange gelatin (Jell-O)
2 - tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 - cups low fat buttermilk or heavy cream
1 - (8 oz) container lite whipped topping (cool whip)
In a small sauce pan heat the mandarin orange juice along with the sugar. Bring to a low boil until the sugar dissolves.
Add jell-o and mix well. Remove from heat and let the mixture come to room temperature. Chop the mandarin oranges and add to the jell-o mixture (set aside 6-7 segments for garnish).
In a large bowl pour in the jell-o mixture and add the buttermilk; stir to combine. Refrigerate the mixture for one hour. Remove and stir. Fold in the whipped topping; mix well and refrigerate for at least 6 hours or overnight.
Add the remaining orange segments just before serving. You can make this recipe up to 24 hours in advance.
Cook's Note: If you do not like buttermilk, heavy cream can be substituted. You cannot taste the buttermilk in this recipe (trust me). You can also add one cup of mini marshmallows, but that is optional.
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The rest of us take care of everything else.the next generation and we intend on keeping tradition.With our parents getting on in years now they sit and enjoy it all.Though I have caught mom figetting lol sort of,we tell them they have to pass the reigns over for us to follow.They still manage to do something can't seem to be able to stop them,He just had a triple bypass a few months ago my dad and mom has a little trouble with her kidneys,so we just make sure they stay healthy as best they could approaching their 80s God bless them.Any way family is what its all about,and staying together for as long the Lord lets us,right? My name is Elsa Rodriguez,email is chameleongirl316@yahoo.com Happy Holidays to all you guys,I so enjoyed reading your posts.Thank you for sharing.
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I really like you page and Im gonna try the cassorle dish with the hashbrowns
My favorite and traditional dish is my homemade green tomato mincemeat pie. I've made that for many years and so I make sure I have the ingredients far in advance to make pies for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The turkey giveaway is very generious of you. God Bless
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I think it's a toss up on our favorite dish between the crusty stuffing and the pumpkin pie.
My son really loves the leftovers the next day when he gets turkey and gravy over toast for breakfast.
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Your salad looks wonderful and will be making that soon.
Invited out for Thanksgiving so I will be taking the pies; pumpkin tart, apple and pecan pie
Thank U 4 this giveaway opportunity.
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And, I do the pumpkin pies & mince pies. My sons set the table & my husband & sons clean up the kitchen after, ;-) We always have an extra plate on the table for an unexpected guest, who can be a friend, or, someone we've just met who is alone. My daughter has been known to bring a homeless person, or 2 or 3, home for both Thanksgiving & Christmas, and, I encourage her to do so, as, I feel no one should be alone, especially at the holidays, ;-) God bless all
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(lots of leftover for sandwiches etc. Christmas is Turkey, cornbread dressing, many sides and salads. My two adult sons, their wives and my beautiful grandchildren will be here for Christmas this year. One son & family coming from Germany and my other son, wife and grandchildren driving down from Indiana. They will get all the great foods they grew up with including grilling the turkey. Hope everyone enjoys their holidays and thanks our maker. BJ Wells wellsbj@knology.net
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My favorite is cornbread dressing!!! I could make a meal on just this!! Thanks for the giveaway.
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EVERY ONE BRINGS A "DISH"
MY SON---COOKIES
MY OTHER SON "DRINKS"
AND AS FOR ME MY FAV. DISH
"PUMPKIN PIE CAKE"
PLUS I ALWAYS BUY "BUTTERBALL" :)
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My favorite dish is Sweet Potato Casserole
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Our favorite family dishes are the fruit salad (an amborsia type with coconut & pecans) and the dressing. Many people have passed away from my family. The Thanksgiving table is different. But I am thankful for who I have left. Blessings to you and thanks for the opportunity.
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Happy thanksgiving!
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We all bring our favorite dishes and then some. We make our parents proud by continuing the tradition that was so important to them. My e-mail is carolcarl1031@yahoo.com
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I now live alone on a limited income, but when my children were little, they helped according to their age, sometimes chopping or crumbling the cornbread. They always set the table.
My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey! My second favorite would have to be squash bread; the recipe is similar to the squash rolls my Grandmother made every year.
I would love to win a Butterball turkey! This is one occasion where I am brand loyal - I always buy a Butterball. Call me crazy, but I think they always come out nicer.
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We tend to make the same things year-after-year, and our favorites include: sausage apple sage stuffing, Nigella Lawson's caramel croissant pudding, a roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and green bean casserole. Cee
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