In the South the "salad" table at the potluck or church dinner is chock full of everything from potato salad, pea salad, bean salads, fruit salads, meat salads, pasta salads, right on down to what we refer to as "green salads" which are lettuce & tomato. Much like That Midwestern Mom, the South is chock full of salads that aren't really salads (at least not in the traditional sense. 😂

Many years ago I tasted a fruit salad with sour cream base. It was so good I've always used sour cream since then. The fruits add sweetness, if you add coconut it adds more sweetness. My favorite fruits for this are mandarin oranges, bananas, apples, peaches and grapes. Occasionally I add chopped walnuts or coconut.

I need that cookbook!! I live in Florida, and one summer (about 25 years ago), we were in a drought, having terrible wildfires, and it was at least 99 degrees to over 100 every day. That summer was "the Summer of Salad" and will forever after be known as that. Every single day the only thing I wanted to eat was salad. I made pasta salads, green salads, cole slaw, chicken salad, tuna salad, radish salad, cucumber salad, you name it. If I could put it in a salad bowl and chill it, it became salad. Now and then I'd force myself to turn on the stove or oven to cook (steak for instance or chicken), but leftovers? They became salad! It was the only way I could survive that summer. So YES, I need a giant salad cookbook. This may be another Summer of Salad. Perhaps, Summer of Salad 2.0.

I have been known to “MyGyver” Thousand Island dressing from condiments packets from the cafeteria at work when I forget my dressing. Mayo, pickle relish and ketchup. I posted that mishap in a cooking group on FB. Someone gave me grief. I shared it because that’s a super basic hack. Sometimes, hacks are how you get out of paying $1.50 for a pack of dressing. Love your channel. I love that you make the recipes as they’re written, because sometimes they are perfect in their original state. I love old recipes. Currently working on a recipe that my mom made that she never wrote down. When I get it right, I would like to share it with you. It’s THAT amazing!

Ha, ha, ha, you sound like my mother. She fixed celery sticks for us kids, growing up. My mom's potato salad had iceberg lettuce, never seen it ever. When I got older asked her where she got her recipe. We loved it. Mom said the recipe used celery, but she didn't like celery, so she used iceberg lettuce. She's been 20 years I make once in awhile , but never tasted like hers . Used to make and take to picnic but people wouldn't eat so stopped, and just make for me, I'm 72. I enjoy your video's, thank you

Oh back in the days when anything could be a salad 😂 personally my favorite salad is a taco salad

You'd probably like Orange Fluff with orange Jello, Cool Whip, Cottage Cheese, canned Mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits, sometimes chopped pecans --- there are other variations here and there. The Jello powder is stirred into the Cool Whip, so it's not like a Jello salad. So dang good, I need to make it this week.

Long ago in Seattle there was a department store tea room that had a “thousand island “ that had pickle relish ,chopped egg , and CAVIAR! People still tell stories of a day out with grandma and the “fancy “ lunch downtown.

The broccoli salad (very Southern) is worth trying. When made right, it is outstanding.

Years ago in the 60s my cousin gave the recipe for 5 Cup Salad! A cup each of mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, shredded sweetened coconut and sour cream!! It was so delicious! ❤ hugs from Michigan! I love old cookbooks!

Growing up (in the 80s) my grandma always made what she called Thousand Island Dressing. It's just mayo, ketchup, and horseradish sauce. It's soooo delicious on a wedge salad. Simple but so good.

I'm married to someone who will not tolerate any onion in anything I make, so I've learned how to deal with cooking without onions and I've been doing it for 32 years now. We were both born the year this cookbook came out, so that's fun.

I like savory salads: crab salad, ham salad, taco, pasta, etc.❤😋

My thousand island is mayo, ketchup, minced onion, and pickle relish. This new one, Olen's, is intriguing! 😋

Always make my own Thousand Island salad dressing with mayo, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sweet pickle relish and a bit of the juice and a bit of garlic powder. It is a must have to go on a Chef's Salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, diced ham, turkey and cheddar cheese, with a halved hard boiled egg. My husband asks for this meal on a regular basis.

The ambrosia salad was often served in the winter because we didn’t have as many winter fresh fruit options back then.

love this foray into the Salad Cinematic Universe

I live in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago and pretty much all Slavic grocery stores with prepared foods have cucumbers in sour cream. Your recipe sounds similar to the salads they make but they use regular cucumbers that are peeled and add dill (an herb in a ton of Eastern European recipes). They also make a cucumber salad that is in sort of a sweet and sour vinaigrette.

Anything can be a salad! **sips fermented grape "salad"** These salads look great though, and that ambrosia!! 😍😋

Love how almost anything could be a salad! I love celery and would happily eat a celery only salad.

All summer, my weird grandma always had a cool whip container of sliced cucumbers, onions, and a bit of white vinegar in her fridge. She would sometimes add a dollop of sour cream to her portion before eating. She also always had a margarine tub (she called it Oleo) of peeled, sliced, fresh tomatoes. That side of my family loved a good weird salad. The bright green pistachio pudding one, ambrosia variants, carrots and raisins, pea salad with chunks of cheddar cheese, etc. She used to make this set lime jello and pineapple concoction that was served in a baking pan and had this super weird off white topping layer. I have no idea what was in it. I didn't eat that one. I really miss a good pot luck table full of salads in every color.

When I go to a book sale, I always check out the cookbook section! ❤

Mmm, Ambrosia Salad! I also love a salad similar to Ambrosia salad made simply with a tub of Cool Whip, a package of pistachio pudding mix, and a can of pineapple tidbits.. all mixed together and chilled. Keep these nostalgic recipes coming! 🥰

I eat cucumbers pretty much every day. I slice them up, along with sweet onion, and add some cherry or grape tomatoes. Then I have a spary bottle with apple cider vinegar. A few spritzes with that, some salt, maybe a light dusting of pepper. Fresh & Delicious!

🤍🤚Hi Anna , I want to mention that back in the 1980s working in Los Angeles Office building Lunch Lady Basket meals ... She sold this Sandwich called " Ambrosia " . Not the ThanksGivings & Christmas Table Salad dessert one though. A Banana Bread ( with Walnuts ) mini Sandwiches , with a layer of Creme Cheese , and then a single layer of fresh Fruit , like Strawberrys , Delicious ! Interesting with Cottage Cheese , I would Veganize , but make into a recreation Green Leaf large entree plate Fruit Salad from PennyFeathers Cafe , Los Angeles. Also served with Cottage Cheese , & with 1000 too : )

Growing up, my Dad always made ambrosia salad for any holiday, he sometimes added maraschino cherries and walnuts. Watching this video make me want to make some! Great video Anna.

I used to love a watermelon basket salad. We had our engagement party in 1993. My friend made me a watermelon basket the day prior to the party but she sprinkled champagne on just the watermelon.

The cucumber salad looks yummy!

I love your channel! I love old cookbooks, too. I got married in the mid ‘60s so I remember recipes from the ‘40s and ‘50s that we ate at home when I was a kid and then from the ‘60s on that I made (or saw recipes for) when I was cooking for my family. I have a salad recipe of my grandmother’s that has fruit and cheese and whipped cream in it that could also be a dessert. (Edited out a stupid typo 😣)

I just love your videos! They’re fun and interesting and I enjoy your sense of humor. I too am a buckeye and I grew up leafing through my Mom’s Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book. In my opinion those photos and illustrations are top notch. Definitely formed many happy childhood memories with that book at the kitchen table!❤

Hi, dear Anna! I love you and your channel. Thank you for always doing such an amazing job!! ❤😊

What gets me about fruit cocktail is the grapes. Canned grapes. No. When I was a kid my mom made something more “desserty,” Fruit cocktail, coconut, marshmallows and cool whip or whipped cream. Haven’t had it in 40 years, but I liked it then. Thanks for the video.

The cucumber salad looks similar to a Polish one I make at home called Mizeria! The main difference is you'd add dill instead of parsley, lots of different ways to make it depending on family preference. I've seen it made with greek yogurt or sour cream and I've tried both ways and its so yummy either way!

You're ok ith your feelings about celery! I feel the same about green peppers. 😄

I love it when you cook my childhood.😊

I’m glad to hear there’s someone else who doesn’t care for raw celery. No matter how the celery is served, my mouth still says “yuck, tow rope with topping.” The dressings sound delicious. And I really love the whisk!

I met a lady named Ambrosia. All I could think was why on earth someone would name her that 🤭 Great video!

It seems to my memory that the ambrosia that showed up at my family reunions (and other assemblages of relatives that included a buffet table) had a dressing made with whipped cream or Cool Whip or the like. There may have been other components, but it definitely had a whipped cream vibe to it. And it DEFINITELY had Mandarin orange segments. Oh, those juicy little gems! To this day, I can sit down with a large can of Mandarin orange segments and a spoon and pretty much make a dinner of it.

Yum! Anna everytime I watch you I have this strong feeling that I know you from somewhere! I live in the Akron, Ohio area. It drives me crazy because I keep trying to think of where I know you from when I watch you.

Hey, Anna! I discovered your videos a few days ago. Watching them is like a time capsule. It was AWESOME to see you use the same yellow 1970's tupperware measuring cups my mom had( I think 2 or 3 of them are still hanging around in her cabinets). You also have the same Correll(spelling?) dish set design my grandma had!! Thank you for bringing back all those memories of chicken fried steak and potatoes with onions on her covered porch. I practice Keto so I am not inclined to cook vintage but you are such a charming light spirit -- I laugh a lot as I watch your videos.

When I serve sliced cucumber or cucumber sticks, I make a quick dressing of ketchup and mayonnaise. ❤

If you dislike celery, try stuffing stalks of it with cream cheese mixed with Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise because you need the vinegar tang). Yum! This was how mom used up extra celery stalks on holidays. And the ambrosia I know and love has the fruit, but extra maraschino cherries cut up. No coconut, but chopped walnuts or pecans. Nuts are optional. My mom used to let us use extra marshmallows. And a version that mixes cool whip instead of cottage cheese. It’s much sweeter, but I loved that too. Brings back childhood memories. My grandma used to make what she called ham salad. It was made with fresh ground up bologna and ground up baby pickles, along with some juice. Mixed with Miracle Whip. I still do not like regular ham salad to this day, but loved this, even though I disliked bologna.

My husband isn’t a fan of celery either. So I usually make whatever the recipe is with out the celery then I just take how much I want and add celery to mine only. Then he doesn’t have to pick it out.

I feel you on your celery struggles. I don't eat onions, and people can't handle that either.

Thank you! I sure remember those salads!

I agree with you. That Thousand Island dressing was more like Big Mac special sauce. Even though I've seen copycat recipes for that, most don't put horseradish in. It definitely has some horseradish! My thousand Island always had relish in it. It could be sweet or dill. Some recipes even put chopped hard boiled egg in it! The chunks were the " islands". Hence, the name.

Yay! A mini juicer link! Somehow, I thought it was no longer available. Thank you!

Gam always used cottage cheese but she also added a jello pack normally orange.

My granny mother made ambrosia rather often ❤

You can use the rest of the thousand island dressing to make Big Mac salad, so yummy!

This is a little off topic. I really love your channel and I love cooking and I love food and recipes. When you talk about the books it really speaks to me. It makes me think about cookbooks that we keep and those these get rid of. At one point got rid of most of my cookbooks because there were only one or two recipes that I enjoyed. So I pulled those recipes out and I put them in my personal cookbook. Then gave away the book. I started getting most of my recipes online but recently I’ve been looking at cookbooks again. The reason for this is that I picked up a novelty cookbook for World of Warcraft which is a video game. Just about every recipe in that cookbook has been a winner. I ended up buying one for my sister and we’re slowly cooking through this cookbook. It makes me think about cookbooks we grew up on and what cookbooks are going to go to our children are nieces or nephews and this World of Warcraft cookbook is definitely going to be one of them.

A restaurant I enjoyed, that has since gone out of business had a thousand island dressing to die for. , it seemed to have BEETS in it. Amazing !! If anyone has the recipe for this one, I’d so appreciate it!

You are not alone in not liking to eat certain types of foods and that’s okay. Another great video!

I love TI dressing! It's great on sandwiches too!

I might try crème fraîche instead of sour cream in ambrosia.

I remember the cottage cheese ambrosia from decades ago

I’d use that dressing as a sandwich spread. Looks delicious!

My gramma and mom would make thousand island with mayo, ketchup, lemon juice, relish, onion powder, and garlic powder. But the cream cheese sounds amazing.

Cherry tomatoes halved in the cucumber salad. The thickness would thin out.

I’ve never seen ambrosia salad without cool whip before. I’m so excited to try one without it! Edit: you keep hating celery! I support you! I like it now but used to dislike it a lot.

I love love love celery. But I get you. I -hate- hazelnuts. I -despise- Nutella. My family thinks I'm "nuts" LOL.

I love ambrosia salad! Haven't had anyin many years though. My mom used to serve it as a holiday side dish, especially when my grandparents were coming over. I remember hers had a lot of canned mandarin oranges in it along with the other fruit.

More salad videos please! So nostalgic!

I bought sour cream and English cucumbers this weekend so I can make this salad. Looks yummy!

Ambrosia has been on the table every Easter and some Thanksgivings from time out of mind in my family. It's the 'sweet' salad. That cucumber sour cream salad was common when cucumbers ripened. Those are old, well loved recipes.

I've tried the same thing with olives. I tried green, tried black, tried with various fillings and settings and no matter what I just hate them lol

I think that Thousand Island dressing would also make a really good chip dip. And the cucumber salad looked really good.

TI dressing with sliced fresh raw button mushrooms!

I feel ya,never much of a celery girl myself!

I love Thousand Island, my family has a fantastic recipe for it and yes it does include hard boiled eggs.

LOVE ambrosia salad! Never seen this one and I have to try it! Great video! 😃✨ Oh, and I so appreciate the time it takes to put the recipes in the description! I screen shot most of them from your videos and store them in a recipes folder. Thank you!!

The illustration of the candle salad was great, but have you seen the version Amy Sedaris made on At Home With Amy Sedaris? Such a fun show that was cancelled too soon, and some great old recipes too.

You crack me up with your celery aversion….I cannot eat chicken salad or tuna salad without celery….but show me a Lima bean and I’ll be cowering in the corner for days!! Those beans are scary!

That first cucumber salad reminds me of one that I make quite often but mine is a little simpler, just sliced cucumbers with a few tablespoons of plain yogurt, sprinkled with paprika.

Just made the cucumber salad- yummy- but I used 1/2 the amount of sour cream- delicious

I have that book! I haven’t tried any recipes from it yet. Wow, 500 salad recipes is a lot! I finally got a bookshelf and organized the books so they are together and easy to find. 😊

Your Channel is fascinating! I love watching you do your testing on recipes we all wonder about.

I share that midwest love of salads as a sign of spring. 😄 My heart belongs to the 1960s & 70s, so this video was perfect for me! I will definitely be making that cucumber salad (a slightly different twist on the one I've made for years).

I make Watergate salad during the holidays, love it!!

Your energy is delightful! Thank you for sharing all these videos. Salad or vegetable ones are my particular favorites. It gets me more excited to eat those things.

Always love your uploads. I have the ingredients to the Ambrosia - making it tomorrow. Thanks much!

My grandma had a dirty name for candlestick salad I'd forgotten until now 😂

I agree about celery. I’m ok with it as an ingredient but not a main flavor. Raw celery makes my lips and tongue tingle, totally ok cooked.

I loved this segment on salads. I would really like to try the ambrosia one. Please try to like celery 'cause it's your friend and hgh in electrolytes, so it's naturally hydrating. When i use it in potato salad stews, or soups, etc., i always dice it up really fine, for the reason that i like the flavor it adds to the recipe. I even add celery salt for an added boost in flavor sometimes. Celery is one of the healthiest vegetables you can add to your diet. I do understand if you don't like it, we can't like everything. ❤

Thanks Anna, I enjoyed the video.

❤ oh anna, I love celery! It's even my favorite nighttime snack! However, my oldest son is like you and does not care for much salary. We have agreed to disagree and I'm respectful of his dislike and rarely put much in any recipe. If I do it's always chopped very fine and a small amount. He seems fine with that so you are not the only one!

I want to try that cucumber salad with chives instead of onion. I hate raw onion. It looks so good.

My mom's ambrosia salad was Cool-whip and cottage cheese. I like the idea of sour cream much better.

I love your videos! This what I mean when I say salad. My mom made cucumber salad all the time she used dill and not garlic, she also used sour cream

I only like celery with peanut butter and raisins, but I like celery salt. It’s great for chicken broth as well as in a simple oil and vinegar dressing.

My mother used to make a salad with cottage cheese, strawberry jello (dry, not made into jello), pineapple and cool whip. It may have had something else in it also.

I have this cookbook. Its fun to see the names and states related to each recipe. I enjoy your videos so much. Thank you for all your hard work.

My mom made tomato aspic with asparagus when i was a kid. It was a huge favourite of mine....i should ask for the recipe. Ive never made it...but was super fancy and totally yummy ...i should give it a go. Thanks for the inspo

As you were making the ambrosia I was thinking I'd try it but swap out the fruit cocktail for maybe apple chunks and grapes. Great video very fun.

I used to love the jello salads. The ladies’ magazines used to be full of them. One I made at Christmas was so pretty. They was a layer or red gelatin, a layer of cream cheese mixed with ?? Then the top layer was green jello. I really loved it, but I forgot to tear it, and the magazine was probably tossed. 😢 I would love to try it again to see if it tastes as good now as when I was a teen.

So interesting to see how ingredients and meals have changed! Thank you!

I looove your vintage mixing bowls! I also hate celery 🤢so you are not alone

I found a Pillsbury Cook off recipe book at the thrift store yesterday-dated 1961!! Great recipes but it was fun looking at the ladies hairdos for that era! Fun!

I am with you on celery!

I don't think I've ever had thousand island dressing made with cream cheese. Interesting. Might try😊