OT Martian Salad?

Well - we relied on Aunt Lear (yes that was her real name) for head cheese.
It is definitely an acquired taste. The best description/recipe I ever saw
was in the book "Centennial" by Michener. It followed the exact method that
Aunt Lear used. She died at age 90 something. Her house had electric but
she still had a "house out back" and a "hand pump at the well." when she
passed. Her grandchildren forced the electricity in the house on her. She
complained that she "never needed it before - don't need it now". She grew
a garden and canned everything in it right up until she died. She lived in
the same house her husband brought her to as a bride. It had 3 rooms and a
"lean-to" kitchen off the back with a big black wood cook stove in the
center. She raised a beef, pigs and chickens and had a milk cow. She
bought white flour, yellow cornmeal and sugar in bulk and bought little else
at the local mercantile. She said she used everything on the pig but his
squeal to make head cheese. LOL!! I adored and worshipped her. She and
her husband never had children of their own. She sang alto with my mother
as soprano in a mixed country bluegrass gospel quartet. They used to do
live radio broadcasts on Sunday morning. Her husband - "red" Otis sang lead
and Mitch Nofire sang Bass. Some of the most beautiful music you ever
heard. None of them could read music and sang by "ear" - mostly
unaccompanied by musical instrument. Once in awhile if Uncle Shorty wasn't
too hung over from imbibing too much moonshine the night before, he would
play his "juice-harp" or his harmonica. On rare occasion, Reverend Kester's
wife would play piano. Daddy could play spoons for the rhythm section - if
you begged him real pretty.

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Ohhhh, Snigs, you make me miss my Grandma.....she would make the bestest
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Reckon you wouldn't care for head cheese then.

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"Georg" wrote in message
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Debra wrote:
They would be called Congealed Salad by another of my aunts. Her
favorite has green peas in it. She hasn't figured out that once
something has been termed congealed in my hearing, I can't eat it.
The word just makes me think of the solidified meat renderings found
around tinned meats and suddenly I'm not hungry at all. I'd be
thrilled if she would just say Jelled or Jello instead, but that will
never happen.

Well, there's the older word to describe it too... Aspic. Like calves
tongue in aspic. And because that is the recipe I think of when I hear
the word "aspic" I cannot find it appealing. I also know that it's
because of the gelled broth from the animal that it is created thus...
and yeah, I'm too queasy to contemplate it.

Pass the vulture vomit, please.

-georg
thank goodness there's pizza in the oven.

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:33:02 -0400, "C & S"
wrote:

Your pudding brought back childhood memories. Mom used to make a pistachio
pudding cake. A green cake in the 70's was not that cool! We ate it but
thought it was disgusting. I should make a recipe just for nostalgia.

Carole
Champlain, NY

I never heard of pistachio pudding cake before. Sounds yummy. What
do you use for icing? Maybe you could post a recipe for us pistachio
pudding lovers.
Debra in VA
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Yummmm. This one is soo good and I'd lost the recipe. Glad you posted it.


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"Ann" wrote in message
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I have a Pastachio Salad recipe quite similar

Mix together
one package of pastachio instant pudding
1 can of crushed pineapple, including juice (the smaller size tin)
Add/fold in
1 small tub of Cool Whip
Refrigerate

My family loves it and it's quick and easy. I took it to a pot luck one
time and a lady went back for seconds for more of that "Yucky Green Salad"

Ann

We made it a lot, but we never had a name for it.

"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
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: Yummmm. This one is soo good and I'd lost the recipe. Glad you posted it.
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: "Ann" wrote in message
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: I have a Pastachio Salad recipe quite similar
:
: Mix together
: one package of pastachio instant pudding
: 1 can of crushed pineapple, including juice (the smaller size tin)
: Add/fold in
: 1 small tub of Cool Whip
: Refrigerate
:
: My family loves it and it's quick and easy. I took it to a pot luck one
: time and a lady went back for seconds for more of that "Yucky Green
Salad"
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: Ann
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They have pistachio frosting in a can for the cake mix.

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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:33:02 -0400, "C & S"
wrote:

Your pudding brought back childhood memories. Mom used to make a
pistachio
pudding cake. A green cake in the 70's was not that cool! We ate it but
thought it was disgusting. I should make a recipe just for nostalgia.

Carole
Champlain, NY

I never heard of pistachio pudding cake before. Sounds yummy. What
do you use for icing? Maybe you could post a recipe for us pistachio
pudding lovers.
Debra in VA
See my quilts at
http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere