Watergate salad is one of my daughter’s favorite salads. So, since it was her birthday the other day, I decided to make it for her. Also, she asked me the other day, why I didn’t have the Watergate salad on the blog.

I told her that I thought it was, and then I looked and it wasn’t. So here it is. You wonder why this salad is called the Watergate salad; it is because an unnamed Chicago food editor renamed the Pistachio Pineapple Delight salad.

They changed the name trying to get publicity, and sure enough since the recipe was developed about the same time as the “Watergate scandal” it worked. This little salad helped up the business in the Watergate Hotel.

Anyway I thought it might be a great last minute salad for you for those days when you are in a hurry and it is one of those salads that you could use as a salad or a dessert!

 

 

 

 

What Ingredients Do I Need For Watergate Salad?

Here’s a list of ingredients you’ll need to make this salad (scroll down for the full recipe):

 

• Instant pistachio pudding
• Crushed pineapple with juice
• Chopped pecans or walnuts
• Miniature marshmallows
• Frozen whipped topping
• Maraschino cherries (optional)

 

 

How Do I Make Watergate Salad?

Here’s the simple steps you’ll follow to make this salad (scroll down for the full recipe):

 

• In a large bowl, combine pudding mix, and the pineapple with the juice, and stir.
• Then add one cup of marshmallow and stir.
• Fold in one of the whipped toppings and stir until blended.
• In a different bowl, combine the 2 cups of marshmallow and the remaining whipped topping.
• In the bowl that you would like to serve your salad in, place 1/2 of the pudding mix.
• Then add a layer of the marshmallows and whipped topping.
• Repeat the layers and make the last layer nice and pretty.
• Top it off with nuts and maraschino cherries if you like.
• Cover with a lid or plastic wrap and keep refrigerated.

 

 

I will always think of my mom when I make a salad with whipped topping. She was a busy woman that loved to help people, and I see my mother in myself. Going about a 100 miles and hour and forgetting to take time out for yourself.

But I have learned to slow down and enjoy life a little. I have made a couple of quilts and that has been a lot of fun. Sometimes when you are in the thick of making a quilt and it is not working how I think that it could be, then I get a little frustrated and want to throw it out.

 

Tips and Tricks For Watergate Salad:

 

• Make sure that the whipped topping is thawed or it will change the constancy of the salad.
• You could also replace the pecans or walnuts with pistachios if you have some.
• This does make a large salad, so you might want to half it.

 

However, I like to get a second opinion and two heads are better than one. That way we came up with a few new ideas and it worked out perfectly. It was smaller than I thought and I asked my neighbor what she thought.

She suggested that I put the white border around the edge, it made the quilt a little larger and I felt like it pulled all of the quilt together, and then I trimmed it in scraps with the flowered material and then I loved the orange soft minky on the back!

It is so fun to take a break once in awhile and do something besides being in the kitchen. It is fun to create with fabric and it is also fun to create in the kitchen. I hope that you will get a chance to the Watergate salad.

 

 

 

 

More Delicious Fruit Salads For You:

 

Real Cream Berry Salad

Easy Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad 24-Hour

Easy Pina Colada Salad

Strawberry Pecan Pretzel  Salad

Grape Dessert

Red White and Blue Ambrosia

Acini De Pepe Salad AKA Frog Eye Salad

Cool Whip Salad