Best Recipes: Cranberry Salad Squares
Donna Monday
Cranberries and cranberry sauce are a favorite fall and winter fruit. It’s tart and tangy flavor goes perfect with many holiday meals. Most people enjoy cranberry sauce at the dinner table and don’t realize that cranberries are great in salads and desserts.
If you’d like to try something different with cranberries this season, you can’t go wrong with this recipe for Cranberry Salad Squares. It’s deliciously creamy and brimming with cherries, pineapple and nuts.
What a sweet treat to serve at a noontime brunch or special dinner.
Cranberry Salad Squares
- 1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened – can substitute light cream cheese
- 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk not evaporated – can substitute low fat condensed milk
- ¼ cup mayonnaise – can substitute low fat mayo
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 16 oz can jellied cranberry sauce
- 1 16 oz pkg frozen dark sweet cherries
- 1 20 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
- 2 tablespoons chopped nuts
Directions
In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, condensed milk, mayonnaise and lemon juice; beat until smooth and fluffy.
Add cranberry sauce; mix at low speed until blended. Fold in cherries and pineapple. Spoon evenly into ungreased 13x9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle with nuts.
Cover; freeze 6 hours or until firm.
To serve, let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes or until slightly softened. Cut into squares.
Makes 12 servings.
|  | | | RELATED ARTICLES
Food Lovers Gift Secrets
Gifts for Food Lovers
Easy, Tasty Chicken Wing Recipes
You can serve chicken wings hot or cold, for a meal, or for snacks.Theyre great as appetizers at parties, or when youre just looking for a tasty midnight snack.Try these four easy recipes:
10 Smoky Tips To BBQ Food Safely
Cooking outdoors was once only a summer activity shared with family and friends. Now more than half of Americans say they are cooking outdoors year round. Use these simple guidelines for grilling food safely to prevent harmful bacteria from multiplying and causing food-borne illness.
10 Deadly Bacteria That Can Get In Your Food And How To Stop Them From Getting There
Thousands of types of bacteria are naturally present in our environment. Not all bacteria cause disease in humans for example, some bacteria are used beneficially in making cheese and yogurt. However, the prime causes of food-borne illness include parasites, viruses, and bacteria such as:
Red Pepper Lamb Kofta in a Rogan Josh Sauce
NC—Kofta is similar to kebab, except for the fact that ground meat is used, shaped into golf ball-sized servings. Like many classic Indian dishes, it comes in various forms, some of them requiring elaborate and lengthy preparation. Here is a simple recipe for succulent morsels of lamb and red pepper served in a garlic-cream rogan josh sauce that can be prepared and served in less than half an hour:
Valentine Gifts From The Heart
One of my fondest childhood memories is of my mother helping me make a Valentines box to take to school. We pulled out white paste, an old shoebox, scraps of doilies, and construction paper. There was a flurry of activity as I cut and pasted, and imagined my box filled with homemade Valentines from classmates and secret admirers.
Chinese Dining Etiquette
At Chinese meal times, Chinese people use a round or square table. Person of the most importance would usually take the seat the farthest away from the door whilst the youngest or the person of the least importance would take the seat closest to the door.
Functional Foods: What They Are And How They Work
In the brain, a typical protein can live for approximately ten days. The thoughts, feelings and memories of a human being are made up of what was in the stomach only a few days before. As you can see, in choosing ones diet, you actually can determine who and what you are going to become.
Tempranillo’s Role As A New Varietal Wine In Australia
Tempranillo is the premium red wine grape variety from the Rioja region in Spain. It is now challenging Sangiovese as the up and coming star of the red varietal wine scene in Australia.
Drunks On The Set
As long as actors stay sober on the set, movie studios will generally put up with their off screen behavior.Colin Farell often showed up at six in the morning to work on Swat 2003 so hung over from an all night bender that his bodyguards would carry the nearly unconscious Irishman into his trailer.His co-star Sam Jackson was constantly amazed that the young actor was on time, knew all his lines and was totally professional.
Whats So Special About Cinnamon
I dont know about you, but just the smell of cinnamon makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Oatmeal-Apple-Raisin Muffins
These muffins are not only tasty, but theyre also a good source of fiber. In recent years, health experts have come to realize that fiber is an important part of a heart-healthy diet. Using Canola oil also increases the health benefits of these muffins.1 egg1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice added1 cup oatmeal either quick-cooking or old-fashioned oatmeal; I like to use the old-fashioned1/2 cup of brown sugar1/2 cup cooking oil2 cups flour1 teaspoon baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon baking soda1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1 apple chopped1/2 cup raisins1/2 cup chopped walnuts optional
Hosting a Wine Tasting Party
As your love and knowledge of wine grows, it is inevitable that you will want to share your revelations with friends and family. Hosting a wine tasting party is a great way to do this.
Ginger Braised Country-Style Ribs
Ginger Braised Country-Style Ribs
Use H-O-L-L-Y to Beat Christmas Cooking Stress
What does holly, that untidy traditional greenery you just have to festoon your house with every year, have to do with not tearing your hair out before its even ThanksgivingPlenty.You can use H-O-L-L-Y to help you get organized.
Spanish Food - How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup.
Home-made soups are so good for you - all that nourishing stockand chock-a-block full of vitamins and minerals.
How to Make Restaurant Quality Coffee At Home
Have you ever wondered how restaurants get their coffee to taste so good
New Years Resolutions
Ah, the start of another year!In a groggy haze on New Years Eve, I promised someone or was it myself that I would be good this year.I said I would draw up my New Year’s Resolutions – particularly after the roller-coaster year I had last year.Well, a promise is a promise.I can’t very well start the New Year by breaking the resolution that I was going to write my New Year’s Resolutions, can I So, here it is, broken down into months being the control freak that I am.
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls from Scratch in 2 hours or less!
If Ive heard it once, Ive heard it a dozen times: "Make homemade cinnamon rolls From scratch Are you crazy That takes all day!"
The Official "Parenting" Cheesecake Recipe
Whoever writes all those fancy cookbooks has never been a parent.To begin with, the pages are never spill-proof, almost guaranteeing that somewhere in the middle of mixing ingredients, a spill will cover the remaining two ingredients listed.This means that parents must learn to improvise.
|
