What is your favorite Christmas salad?

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Mine would have to be Mandarin/Pineapple Salad. But this year I am going to try the Congealed Strawberry Salad someone posted here on SP!

[CanMan]

Mine has traditionally been a Bloody Mary with a carrot stick along with the celery stick and, because of the holidays, I use a toothpick to stick two green olives and one black olive on the end the celery stick (Black olive in the middle of course). Can't get your veggies much nicer than that during the holiday.

[The Ironic Chef]

Green Jello Waldorf Salad

2 Packages of Green Jello. (Lime)
2 cups boiling water
1 1/2 cups cold water
1 cup diced apples
2 diced bananas splashed with lemon juice
2 stalks of chopped celery
1/2 cup of chopped walnuts

Dissolve Jello in boiling water. Add the cold water. Chill until very thick but not set. About an hour. Gently stir in the remaining ingredients. Put the entire mixture into a mold, I use my Bundt pan, let set up in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Remove from mold. A little hot water on the outside of the Bundt pan helps for easy release.

It's a little different but I enjoy it. I'm a jello addict. I have made this using sparkling cider instead of water and was very pleased with the results.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

IC this sounds good, I was actually tossing around the idea of a Waldorf Salad and this sounds like a nice twist on the traditional Waldorf Salad! Hey anybody remember Carrot Salad? My grandmother used to make it, you hardly hear of it these days!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Mine has traditionally been a Bloody Mary with a carrot stick along with the celery stick and, because of the holidays, I use a toothpick to stick two green olives and one black olive on the end the celery stick (Black olive in the middle of course). Can't get your veggies much nicer than that during the holiday.

Great Salad there CanMan

[jglass]

My two favs are cobb salad and ceasar salad.
Not Christmas salads but I love them lol.

[2extreme]

I love greek salad... not soo much christmas salade thought..

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Yes Greek Salad is extremely delicious! Holiday or not

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I love all the salads mentioned here! (You go, CanMan!)

Like janie, one of my FAV go-to salads is a large Caesar with anything thrown in from chicken to shrimp, smoked salmon, even ham. I also make a "White Tie Salad" where I use half romaine (or fresh spinach leaves) and cooked bow-tie pasta. YUM!

My FAV Jell-O Salad is the same mold my Mom made when I was a boy: Orange Jell-O, 2 cans of drained mandarin oranges and a whole, small container of cottage cheese. YUMMY!

[jpshaw]

This thread started for Christmas 2008. Well I'm going to add (for Christmas 2009) jfain's "Moorish Crunch Salad" but with one Red Delicious and one Granny Smith apple just to add more color to it. -John-

For New Years though it will be Cathy's first salad "Mandarin/Pineapple" however Cathy I don't have a recipe - hint -