Today is National Ambrosia Day. I can’t believe that of all the salads that could score their own day, that the honor would go to Ambrosia Salad.
Ambrosia Salad is a mix of fruit (typically orange sections as the base), creamy milk product (yogurt, whipped cream or sour cream) and mini marshmallows. It is not my favourite food – so not my favorite since it is a combination of my three least favourite foods. In the eighties it was super popular, particularly with my mother in law who served it with disturbing regularity.
My son Danny loves food – eating it, preparing it, discussing it. A couple of times a year we travel across the province to visit Danny and his family and a couple of times a year they come home. Every trip is preceded by a discussion on the food that will be served. Danny threatens me with Ambrosia salad. I threaten him with tomato aspic (which probably does not get it’s own national holiday🙁).
Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie 
My mother’s ambrosia had oranges, grapefruit, grapes, coconut and sometimes pecans. No marshmallows. It was actually good.
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There are a lot of people who love it and I am sure a lot would love your Mother’s. As much as I eat almost anything, I just cannot eat oranges, anything with a creamy consistency and I am not a fan of marshmallows. My kids used to just always laugh when Grandma would bring out her Ambrosia salad.
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