 We're in the kitchen today. It is St. Patty's Day, Chris is home with me. Fish and whether it's not going to be good for a few days, so we're going to enjoy a fruit salad. I'm going to make it green today. So I'll be using, this is a salad a lot of you make with oranges and you use an orange jello. But today we're going to be using lime jello and fruit cocktail because it is St. Patrick's Day. So it's simple and easy to make. So we're going to start out and I've also got some green sprinkles. We're going to sprinkle the top of it with when we're done. But so we've got the can of fruit cocktail and we're going to drain that. It's got everything in it. We have got some pineapple, crushed pineapple in a little can. We're going to drain it. And I'm going to really drain it good and press along the juice out of it. For this salad. Hope you're having a great day. Y'all get ready and make sure you watch the weather the next couple of days. So that's just crushed pineapple, fruit cocktail. This is so simple, but we're doing something special today. Since it's St. Patrick's Day. This is cottage cheese, okay? And I'm going to use, this is a, let's see, 16 ounce and I'm going to use about half of it. Because my recipe didn't tell me how much to put in there. It just said a thing of cottage cheese. It's one of them church recipes. So, you know, it's just throw it together. Then you're, I know you're supposed to use a 8 ounce package of Cool Whip. And if I decide to put more cottage cheese in it, I will. Now, today I am going to just for fun and because it'll be good. And this is lime. I'm going to put in a little bit of lemon extract. Now this is extract and this is a quarter teaspoon. This is lemon, not lime, but we're using lime jello. There's the lemon extract and guess what else I'm putting in here, y'all. Coconut. And I could put some flake coconut in it. I might grab some and throw some in there. Quarter teaspoon. A three ounce package of lime jello because it is St. Patrick's Day. You can use sugar free and all of this stuff if you want to. And I'm going to fold all of this together. So we've got the lemon extract, the lime jello, the coconut extract, the cottage cheese. And I can tell you right now I'm putting all that cottage cheese in there. So that will be a whole container. So it'll be a whole 16 ounces. You don't really know what you're doing when you're going by a recipe if it don't give you everything to do. I mean it didn't list the amount is what I'm saying. All right now while I'm thinking about I'm going to grab some coconut out of here. This is my dry pantry and I have some coconut right here, bakers is my favorite. Now if you can't get bakers coconut you can use what you have or can get but I'm telling you bakers coconut is way more stir than anybody else is. So in something like this salad I would prefer it over a dryer one. And I'm not going to put in much but we did add some coconut flavor so we'll add a little. Now I've got to rinse my head because it's sticky. You can also put in pecans if you want to. You want pecans in it Chris? Let's go for it. Let's do it all. Why not? Sorry baby I backed you up that night. This is my pecan thing. So we'll sprinkle the pecans in last. But I'm going to mix this up pretty good. See how fluffy that looks? Woo! We're going to put in the pineapple and now we're going to put in the fruit cocktail. And you can do the same recipe with orange jello and mandarin oranges if you wish. But you still add the pineapple of course because the pineapple is really good. Even sounds fluffy. It does doesn't it? And now we're going to add a few nuts to it. That's all there is to it y'all. How easy is that? The more the merrier right? And if you can't chew nuts or have nuts of course you don't put those in there. That is optional. It looks like a Waldorf salad but it's not. Not Waldorf. The one that's green. Watergate. Yeah watergate. Waldorf is the apple salad. Okay that's it. Now for St. Patrick's Day get you some sugar and use some food coloring and make it green or if you just happen to have some leftover like I buy different colors when they're on sale after the holidays then you can sprinkle it on the top with green for St. Patrick's Day. Me and Chris are going to have a taste for y'all. So when you serve it you can chill it and then when you serve it you can sprinkle it to make it look more like St. Patrick's Day. Now if you want to use more flavoring you can. I will taste it and see if we need more flavoring or if it was just right. Just right. It's so good. And I'm telling you if you've got the flavoring or the extract I should say please put it in there. It is the bomb. That little bit of coconut extract and that little bit of lemon extract is so good in it with that lime jello. My goodness. It makes a lot. I wish I were here to eat it with us. I'm gonna let Chris taste it for y'all. It's so good. I just want to keep eating it. Get that close. Looks good, don't it? Yep. Ready? Yep. I'm gonna take a big bite. That is not a big bite. It's really good, ain't it? I mean the thoughts of the cottage cheese being in there kind of throws some people off but that little bit of cheese in with that sweet is really good. Delicious. What do you think Chris? I like it better than Watergate salad. I do too. We like it better than Watergate. Well for one it's got that extract in there and it makes it taste good. If you've got extract you can always add a little bit to your Watergate. Y'all it's delicious and don't put more extract than what I did. A quarter of a teaspoon is perfect for the coconut and the lemon and if you've got another flavor you want to add in there throw it in there the more the merrier for all that fruit. Okay. So thanks so much for watching Colored Valley Cooks. Where we cook like mama did. Y'all have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day and stay safe from all of these storms tonight. Bye. Love ya.