Buttermilk Creamsicle Salad & A Butterball Turkey Giveaway {Closed}

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. 

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)
  Tweet the following to earn a bonus entry: Enter for your chance to win a @butterball Turkey Check @mommyskitchen http://tinyurl.com/pawdn8l #Thanksgiving #giveaway 
  
  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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