Kinda craving something that would be considered a food horror

[missdiane]

Posted this instagram of a way to get veggies in at breakfast. Multigrain/seed Asian bread, leftover garlic spinach around the outside, a super thin ring of mayo to keep the egg from seeping out and egg and faux parm on top. I baked in the air fryer. It was so good that I've had it for three breakfasts now, though I'm out of the spinach so I'll have to do something else tomorrow.

Anyhoo, Emily predictably commented "Eww" since she doesn't do eggs and such and I had a thought that I need to make and post something that'll really get her going. lol The Meals on Wheels folks deliver stuff to the parents that they love - I'm so glad that their doctor's office helped get them set up on that and I recently sent a big donation in their honor for it. One thing that Mom wanted to make that gets included in their meals sometimes is ambrosia salad (they do have them old midwestern people pegged). Yeah, it's all kinds of sugar but it's good. Made me think of other similar salads/desserts like that where we had them growing up and they are good summer munchies. So which one should I make?

Ambrosia Salad


Watergate Salad



Seafoam Salad aka "Fluff"


In any of them, I'll probably eliminate the marshmallows. I don't recall ever using them except in Waldorf Salad (which is not on here, that's for Thanksgiving!). They were ok in Waldorf since it didn't contain Cool Whip.

Which do you think? I'll eat any of them, though it might take me a while. Heh, maybe I'll horrify my coworkers and bring some in. Other recommendations for ones I may have forgotten are welcome!

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie1]

Ick. But if I had to pick one I'd pick the Ambrosia Salad.

[missdiane]

LOL Midwest dessert salads are definitely an acquired taste...and texture.

I do have some unsweetened coconut that I need to use up so that might not be a bad idea. We'll see how the votes go! Gross as they are, there are things I like about each one. The pistachio pudding in Watergate and fluff can be made a bit less of a sugar bomb than the others

[threecee]

The ambrosia is okay since I like coconut.

Mom had a dessert recipe that I think was a low calory version of seafoam salad: low-fat small curd cottage cheese in place of the cream cheese, mixed with dry sugar-free pineapple, orange, or lime Jell-o, well drained, canned mandarin oranges and drained canned pineapple chunks in sugar free or lite syrup, walnuts or pecans, Cool Whip in place of heavy cream and sugar. No marshmallows. I think it came from her brief time with Weight Watchers in the 60's.

[missdiane]

We always made it with cottage cheese too. Not that we were trying to make it low calorie, it was what we knew. We made it with just cottage cheese, crushed pineapple, lime jello (regular, not sugar free) and cool whip. We didn’t usually bother with the nuts or marshmallows

[spiffikins]

There is a friend of T's who occasionally comes to thanksgiving dinner. She makes her version of ambrosia salad - which is basically fruit salad (oranges, bananas, grapes, apples etc) with shredded coconut mixed in. I can deal with that - but I can't do the ones with cool whip and call them salads, LOL

Dessert? sure! Fruit + whipped cream is tasty, LOL No marshmallows though!

[missdiane]

Dessert salads are a Midwest guilty pleasure, though the only version we ever tossed a few marshmallows in was Waldorf salad because it doesn’t contain whipped topping lol

I’ll be making the ambrosia first and yep, no marshmallows. I also use unsweetened coconut since everything else has plenty of sweetness