- Oh, gosh, happy holidays friends.
We're back again with another fun recipe.
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Oh, hello, hello, Kim.
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- I thought we were doing this Tuesday.
- It is Tuesday.
- Oh, okay, should I go change?
- Here, just put this on, you'll be fine.
- Of course.
You'll be fine, let's go.
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Oh gosh, I'm getting so much better
at setting this thing up.
- We're completely upside down.
- Oh, Jiminy Christmas.
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Well, hello again and welcome to our
"Not So Culdesac Holiday Cooking Show In Kim's Kitchen."
- That's a really long title.
- And a special hello to all you night owls out there
in Oscoda.
- Night Owls?
Where's Oscoda?
- Well, okay, it's just a small town 'cause we're
on the public access station from 1:36 to 1:42 AM.
- Did you negotiate that?
- I have a cousin that lives up there, anyway,
let's get started.
Okay, we are going to make
a pineapple cottage cheese lime Jell-O.
- All together?
All those things?
- Put all those things together, it's kind of like
a Key Lime pie, but it is not a dessert, once again.
- No dessert, that's, how is that not a?
- It's definitely a side dish, it's got a protein.
- Got it, so it's practically a health food.
- It's a health food, it's green.
So we're going to start with just some lime Jell-O,
we're going to make it like normal.
Go light on the water.
- So normal but different.
- No one wants a runny Jell-O.
Don't, mm.
I could not find lime Jell-O at the store.
I think everyone is making these.
- Everyone is making this.
- The trend.
- This particular dish?
- Is sweeping the nation.
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Okay, I got a little excited 'cause I haven't had
lime Jell-O in a while.
I did not put my boiling water in.
So we're gonna just go ahead
and make some boiling water happen.
Just a little show magic.
Don't worry Oscoda, we'll be back.
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Here we go, got it all fixed up.
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- [Kim] Magic.
- Magic.
I have to tell you Kim, there's a couple of variations
of this, okay?
We're going to use the cottage cheese
and the crushed pineapple.
You can also use pineapple juice for your water.
You can put milk in there, some people use cream cheese.
- Milk?
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- Make it a little creamy.
I am a third generation maker of this dish, okay.
- Oh.
- And I'm going to say my mom got my dad to come eat over
at her mom's house because she let him know
this was on the menu.
- Oh.
- Love you mom and dad.
Jell-O, like I said.
- Holds things together.
- Binds the family here.
So we only gonna put in half.
- Half.
- Oh, look at you.
You have a little accent now.
I'm rubbing off on ya.
- Spending a lot of time together.
- Living next door for a while and you know what,
things happen.
I'm also going to put in the crushed pineapple,
don't, don't be alarmed, the whole thing's going in, okay.
Well we're going to go ahead and combine it all here, okay.
So we're going to pour this in.
- [Kim] I have never seen anything quite like this.
- It's very unique, acquired taste.
- I'm just wondering who the first person who was like,
"You know what we should do?
We should take some Jell-O
and put some cottage cheese in there."
It's just the curdled look that I'm struggling with,
but I'm sure it's great, if your family's been making it
for three generations.
- So the next thing we're going to do is,
we're going to pour it into the 13 by nine.
I don't want any splatter.
There we go.
(liquid splashes)
Oh, perfect.
Now with the power of movie magic,
we're going to have this all set and ready to decorate.
Oh wow.
How did that happen?
We're going to create a little Christmas tree on here
with some maraschino cherries.
- I do love maraschino cherries.
- So how festive is that?
So the one thing is like, how good are you at math?
- Um, great.
- So maybe like, I don't know,
we're going to have to count these out.
Here's the two, I'm going to do the three row.
I'm gonna have you put in the four.
- It's amazing how forgiving the Jell-O is.
- Okay and then we're just going to top it
with a nice little lemon star.
Look at how gorgeous.
Oh Kim, it's just ready for the Christmas dinner table.
- Oh, oh.
- It's gonna slide right out.
(Kim laughs)
Just ready to get in everyone's plate.
Should we try it?
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- Yes.
- Yes, yay.
- Okay, you first.
- Sure.
Tastes like Christmas.
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- It is so good.
- You know Kim, if you don't like it,
you just throw it away when no one's looking, okay?
- Okay.
- I'm gonna issue a challenge, you have been so kind.
We have tried the fruit salad,
we have now tried a Jell-O salad,
the binding of the Midwest.
I would like to know if there was something,
maybe a Southern thing, that you have done
that I do not know about.
- What Southern dishes should I share with my neighbor?
- Yes.
- Let us know.
Okay, bye.
- Okay, merry Christmas.
- Penn, you ready for the Midwest?
- That is like a pie.
I love it.
(Kim laughs)
- [Penn] Oh, I'm shocked.
- (laughs) Oh, you're making,
oh my Midwest heart grew three sizes that day.
(Kim laughs)
- I'm not kidding man, this is awesome.
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