Sunday, September 1, 2013

Estate Sale Sunday: Recipe Treasures: Jello Salad

10:00 AM
I see Treaures! Today's Recipe Treasure comes from the recipe book of Mrs Lorene Osborn!

I decided to start out with an easy one. It is a Jello Salad. I know I have had Jello salad's like this before but never knew how to make it. So, this recipe may not be new to you, but it was new to me. I made it a couple weeks ago for the first time. Here is the recipe: 

Can you read it? It says:

Jello Salad (Agnis)
  • 1 6oz box Jello, any flavor (Dry)
  • 1 Big cool Whip
  • 1 Small crush pineapple
  • 1 pint cottage cheese
Mix Together-refrigerate.

Now I had to collect ingredients. I was not able to find the exact sizes of things she called for, so I looked up how much a "big cool whip" is and a small crush pineapple, and I measured out those amounts from the ingredients I bought:

Once it was all put together, it looked like this:

The after refrigeration it looked like this:


Then came the real test: did the Johnson's like it? Here we all are trying it:








Here was the reaction. We had 6 thumbs up responses:






AND one hold out that thought it was "OK":

All in all I really liked it and found it was a quick easy salad to make. I have made it a number of times with different Jello flavors since the first batch. I even brought it over to my friend's house for a pot luck-type meal, and I think it was well liked! All in all, it was a great recipe treasure to discover. Our favorite flavors of Jello so far were Black Cherry and Raspberry. If you try this recipe with a different flavor, we would love to know how it turns out!! 

What a great find! What will we try this week?! I guess I better go and start looking through the recipe box...
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I see Treasure: Estate Sale Sundays

8:00 AM
OK-So, I just discovered Estate Sales! Oh.My.Gosh. LOVE! I am also obsessed with Storage Wars and Storage Wars: Texas. And just like Mary, "I see Treasure!" She sees treasure in Storage Units, I see treasure in Estate Sales. 
The first estate sale I went to a couple weeks ago was done by Smith Estate Sales and was in Moclips, WA. According to their website, it was the home of these people:
If you look at the website, it tells you a little about the people that owned the estate. This is what it says about this couple: 
GEORGE AND LORENE OSBORN BUILT THE HOUSE IN 1941 THEY LIVED THERE ALLL THERE LIVES. SOME OF THE TOOLS BEING SOLD CAN BE SEEN IN THERE OLD PHOTO ALBUMS. THEY HUNTED, FISHED, CLAM DUG, HAD A GARDEN AND LIVED A GOOD LONG LIFE. GEORGE ALSO WORKED AT THE ALOHA LUMBER MILL IN ALOHA WA "ON THE POND"
I loved some of the fantastic items in their home and we bought some awesome tchotchke's (I learned how to spell that just now-thanks Google). But the item I found that is the biggest treasure as far as I am concerned is this:

A recipe box, full of handwritten recipes! EEK! How can those get lost in the shuffle?! I cannot let that just fade into the years, so I spent the best $1 I have ever spent, and bought the box. And now I am going to try to cook my way through the recipes in it! 
I will continue to look for these little treasure boxes and cooking my way through the recipes. Look out later today for my first recipe from the box of Mrs Lorene Osborn!
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