Remember how I said Favorite Recipes of America: Meats Including Seafood and Poultry (1966) still had some wonders for the masochists out there? Well, today we're looking at a few for St. Patrick's Day. (It's my understanding that a lot of people end up puking for that celebration anyway, so these should fit right in.)
We will start with the one the book actually recommends for the day: St. Patrick's Salad.
Yep-- it's one of those salads, with olives, tuna, celery, mayonnaise, vinegar, and cucumber in lime gelatin dessert. It's green! That's the only requirement. Nobody said it had to taste good.
And since this recipe had other lime-gelatin salads nearby, I decided to throw those in for good measure. Want to ruin some perfectly delightful pecans? Then the Chicken-Pecan Salad is the way to go.
Yep, you've got to suspend the titular ingredients in lime gelatin, along with celery, cottage cheese, and mayonnaise.
And if that doesn't seem sufficiently complicated, you can make the Cottage Cheese Salad with Shrimp Dressing instead.
Honestly, I kind of love lime gelatin with cottage cheese puréed into it. It's got a cheesecake-adjacent vibe without being overly heavy and rich. But throw in some onion, horseradish, and mayonnaise? Why? And if that's not bad enough, you can ruin some shrimp by making it into a sauce (probably a pretty good sauce if you actually like salad dressing and shrimp) to pour over the top of this monstrosity.
In short, you're better off sticking to the green beer! But if you want time-consuming and money-wasting additional invitations to barf, you've got options.
I'm glad that I don't have to dig through my wardrobe to find something green to wear to avoid getting pinched all day. The city to the north of me has a parade every March 17 at 1 pm rain or shine. This year it will be a day after a blizzard (with 12 hours of rain before the snow starts). I've never been, but I've heard that it's a parade that's not appropriate for children.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to take a lot of green beer to make those dishes appetizing - or make you brave enough to take the date to try some.
Sounds like it will be a lovely day for a parade! Looks like we will just be very unseasonably cold, but hopefully that's all. (We got an inch of rain on Wednesday and then our power was out for the afternoon/ early evening because of high winds yesterday.)
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