Recipes

[Midmod]

Watergate salad is a favorite of mine and I forgot all about it. All my colleagues are OLD, just like me.

[Midmod]

Hi kachina624,
I made your recipe. It was easy. My husband made a big hole in the container overnight. 😄

[Midmod]

Sooner, should I have drained the tomatoes or not? I'm baking it now but it seemed like I didn't have enough chicken mixture to go across two layers in my 13x9 casserole dish.

[jannabelle1]

Watergate Salad (or pistacchio) is good....doesn't matter if people remember Watergate or not, it's the great flavor of the pistacchio pudding that is so good! I suppose some of the younger group would frown on it for the Cool Whip, but the ones in my family love it when someone makes it.

[Midmod]

Jannabelle, why does it offend a younger person to have cool whip in a dessert? I've read that comment a few times now.

[coconut1818]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

This recipe served me through 32 years of office pot luck luncheons.  Its inexpensive and quick and easy to make.  You can whip it together in 5 minutes.  I always served it in a pretty glass bowl.  There was never, in all those years, even a smidgen left at the end of the day.  Nobody knows what's in it.

Orange Dump Salad

1 (16 oz) carton cottage cheese, drained 

1 3 oz pkg. orange gelatin

1 15 oz can crush pineapple, drained

1 11 oz can Mandaran oranges, drained

1 4 1/2 oz carton Cool Whip

Spoon cottage cheese into large bowl.  Mix in gelatin. Add drained fruits and mix well.  Fold in Cool Whip.  Chill well.  Keeps well in fridge for 3 - 4 days, if you can leave it alone.  Makes 6 - 8 servings.

Original recipe from

Houston Chronicle

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Made it for our Holiday meal at our local Senior Center and it was really good and everyone loved it!  Some people even took extra home.  Thanks for sharing @Kachina624.

[Kachina624]

@coconut1818.  I'm  so pleased you enjoyed it.