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Irresistible Creamy Mexican Street Corn Salad with a Kick-Anna Anderson (Brittney’s Friend)

Source: recipecakes.com

Ingredients:

  • 4 ears fresh corn on the cob
  • 1/2 cup mayonaise
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 2 Tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1/2 cup crumbled cotija cheese
  • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro (optional)
  • salt to taste

Directions:

Shuck the corn and remove silk strands. Boil in salted water for 5-7 minutes until tender.

Grill the corn over medium high heat for about 10 minutes until charred. Cool slightly, and cut kernels off the cob.

In a large bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, lime juice, chili powder, and salt until smooth.

Add the corn kernels, cotija cheese, and cilantro to the bowl. Gently mix to combine.

Cover and chill the the fridge for at least 30 minutes before serving.

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Chicken Salad – Grandma Linda Dennis

  • 4-6 Chicken Breast – cook and shred (or canned chicken)
  • 4 Stalks Celery – chopped
  • 1 Bunch Green Onions – chopped
  • Purple Grapes – halved or quartered
  • Optional – Apples – Chopped

Dressing

  • 1/2 Cup Mayonaise
  • 1/2 C Salad Dressing
  • 1/2 C Sour Cream
  • Dill Weed

Mix all together. Let set 1-2 hours or overnight

Serve on croissants or bread.

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Catalina Frito Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 (9.25 ounce) bag Fritos Corn Chips
  • 1 (15 ounce) can dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
  • 2 green bell peppers, finely diced
  • 5-6 Roma tomatoes, finely chopped (or whatever tomatoes you have and like)
  • ΒΌ-1/2 cup red onion, finely diced
  • 1 can black olives, drained, sliced
  • 1 can corn sliced
  • 6-8 ounces of Catalina dressing (Enough to coat everything without being soupy.)
  • Add whatever ingredients you like. If you don’t like kidney beans don’t add and you don’t need to add another can of beans. When we started making this out recipe only said kidney beans. We like the other beans instead now.

Instructions

  1. In a large mixing bowl combine the drained beans, diced bell peppers, chopped tomatoes, diced red onion, and Catalina dressing. Start with 6 ounces and see if you need to add more dressing. Stir well.
  2. Cover the bowl with a tight lid or plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
  3. Right before serving, pour in the bag of Fritos. Stir and serve.
  4. Enjoy! Seves 16-20
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Tuna Scroodle

  • 16-oz. package of spiral noodles
  • 1/4 cups vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Dill
  • 1 1/2 tsp. season salt
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup copped red onions
  • 1/2 to 1 cup copped celery
  • 1 can drained tuna

Boil noodles until tender. Drain but do not rinse the noodles. Put the noodles, vegetable oil, dill and the season salt in a plastic or glass container. Stir and put in the refrigerator. In a separate container mix the sour cream, mayonnaise and lemon juice. When the noddles are cool combine the two containers and add the tuna and vegetables.

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Jell-O Square Salad – Grandma Dennis

Set the night before:

Make with 1 1/2 cups hot water. Set it in a shallow pan like a cake pan etc.

  • 1 small orange Jell-O
  • 1 small green Jell-O
  • 1 small red Jell-O

The next day

  • 1 small lemon Jell-O – Make with 1 cup hot water and set until syrupy. If it gets too set up set the pan in hot water to liquify again.
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons lemon juice

Mix together cream cheese and sugar. Then add 2 Tablespoons lemon juice. Add lemon Jell-O and Dream Whip (already whipped up according to package directions).

Cut orange, green, and red Jell-O into squares. Mix all together with creamy mixture.

*Dream Whip makes 2 cups so if you use package from kitchen store make 2 cups. Or you can use Cool Whip. That’s what Grandma Dennis does now.

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Croutons/Garlic Bread

  • 1/2 lb margarine
  • 1/2 Tablespoon buttermilk
  • 1/2 Tablespoon parsley
  • 1/2 Tablespoon granulated garlic
  • 1/8 cup Parmesan Cheese

Melt margarine and add remaining ingredients.

For Croutons: Cut up French Bread into 1 or 1/2 inch pieces. Pour mixture on bread and mix. Spread on baking sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 10 minutes. Toss then cook another 10 minutes.

For Garlic Bread: Cut French Bread into slices. Spread butter mixture on bread. Place on baking sheet. Broil in oven till light golden brown.

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Cottage Cheese Salad

  • 1 pint cottage cheese, small curd
  • 1( 3 oz) package Jell-O, any flavor
  • 1 (8 oz) container Cool Whip

Add Jell-O to Cool Whip and cottage cheese. Mix well. Chill to set and meld.

You can add fruit like strawberries or raspberries or even mandarin oranges or pineapple. If using frozen thaw and drain. If using canned drain.

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Rainbow Salad

  • 1 (3 oz) lime, lemon, orange, raspberry, and strawberry Jell-O
  • 16 oz sour cream

Add 1 cup boiling water to lime Jell-O. Stir; divide in half. Add 2 Tablespoons water to 1/2 and pour into pyrex 9×13 cake pan. Tip pan to cover evenly. Set in fridge.

Add 1/3 cup sour cream to remaining half. Stir well and pour over set Jell-O. Tip to cover evenly. Chill.

Repeat process with other flavors.

Top with Cool Whip.

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Coleslaw

1/2 Cup mayonnaise

2 Tablespoons white sugar

1   1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice

1 Tablespoon vinegar

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/4 teaspoon salt

Coleslaw salad mix

Whisk mayonnaise, sugar, lemon juice, vinegar, pepper and salt together until smooth and creamy.

Add to coleslaw mix.  Let sit to incorporate the flavors.

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Olive Garden Italian Dressing

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/3 cup white vinegar

1 teaspoon vegetable oil

2 Tablespoons corn syrup

2 Tablespoons parmesan cheese

2 tablespoons romano cheese

1/4 teaspoon garlic salt or 1 garlic clove minced

1/2 teaspoon italian seasoning

1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

sugar (optional)

Mix all ingredients in a blender until well mixed.  If this is a little too tart for your own personal tastes please add a little sugar.