this is Long John SilverBells and I'm having a problem on my vessel right now
blimey and blow me down I hate what I'm yelling
if one of my men and they say hey Captain and a tooth comes shooting out
and hits me right in my eye. So what we need is a good chef to show us some sort
of a fruit dish cuz we got to get the fruit going to the men so that they
don't get the scurvy. Silver Bells I'm Long John SilverBells it's Christmas
time on the high seas all right I'm gonna get back to taking a caulk.
Aye! Captain... Scurvy Master at your order sir!
Hello everybody...good tidings Merry Christmas whatever it is you celebrate. I wish you a good
celebration but we're gonna talk about today is the beautiful pear salad now
what is a pear salad let me tell you when I first saw it as a kid and my mom
first set these on the table I thought they looked delightful it's a pear half
it's just a simple half a pear right out of a can it's a dollop of mayonnaise use
any mayonnaise you want but in our family there's only one mayonnaise and
that's Duke's mayonnaise now I can't get Duke's mayonnaise up here in Minnesota
so if anybody comes from the south to stay with us for a few days even one day
I asked him to bring me Dukes even though I can get it on Amazon that's
usually how I do it use whatever mayonnaise you'd like maraschino
cherries no stems and I cut mine in half for presentation so I just take a knife
and I slice them in half you need some pepper Rica you need some extra sharp
grated up cheddar cheese and I do mean extra sharp I prefer your Cracker Barrel
cuz I love saying Cracker Barrel as much as I can now you don't want a white
cheese this is Yeller yellow cheese makes a better presentation on there
because if you use a white cheese it just blends in with you payer and it's
just too much white what you need is that green and that white gold and that
Yeller and that red and that paprika and that mayonnaise is covered up down
they're up underneath all that cheese now my mother insists on the cheese
being grated fine what I mean by that is if you have a hand grater it's got you
big grating cuts right there my mom says oh no use the side with the
little graders and it makes a little bit of a fine or grate and one little trick
with your graders when you're grating cheese and you know if you have to
create a lot of cheese at the holiday time you'll start to get a buildup of
cheese on your grater spray it with a little bit of Pam first and you won't
get as much of a buildup and you can grate away when I feel great for telling
you that now number one take a lettuce take any kind of lettuce you want back
in the old days mom always used iceberg because people didn't use arugula or
romaine that much but I've got romaine lettuce here and I always considered the
the lattice just as an appetizer my mother would always try to go it's a
salad son eat the lettuce I never did I always just ate the pear and all the
other stuff and that's still what I do but it looks nice on the lettuce then
what you do is you take your mayonnaise now I use a from my mother silver
collection her teaspoon and you put a dollop of mayonnaise I take a little
short spoon here just to kind of put that right into the hole of the pear all
right boom then what we do is we take the
grated cheese and you put the cheese right on top of the mayonnaise nice blob
I like a lot of the cheese on there next you take your maraschino cherry half I
just use my fingers because I like to press it right down in there a little
bit and the way I put it I don't put the smooth side up I put the cut side up
don't know why my mom always did I think he catches a little bit of juice so
that's what I do and that one popped the one here and put
one there that looks festive already I take my maraschino jar with my juice and
I take my spoon and what I do I like a little juice because to me the juice was
the part it really brought it all together and I
just drizzle a little extra juice and that's your basic setup then you take
your pepper Rica but just sprinkle a dash around on it like that you don't
need too much and boom that right there is your pear salad and
the one thing about a pear salad is they taste better the next day
when you bring the leftovers home and that thing's sitting up against some
turkey and some casserole and some ham and it's all smashed up and the cherry
juice is down in there hmm not meant to be at with your fingers I'm just doing
that to show off so the history of the pear salad in our family first time I
saw it on a Thanksgiving we always had it in our family at Thanksgiving we had
it at Christmas I'd say about 50% of the time when we were lucky when I cried and
said I think she got the recipe from my aunt hunt in entery South Carolina and
we always considered the pear salad as my dad used to say he put it politely he
say son the pear salad is a pauper's sorbet and I'd say what does that mean
daddy said well sorbet is something you eat son in between courses to cleanse
your palate and the pear salad is your poppers or your poor man's sorbet so it
looks beautiful on a holiday table it's easy to make you might be a hit with it
some people might think it's gross good that's more for you and enjoy your
holidays and be kind to one another at least for a day where did my name is
Long John Silver silver bells silver bells it's Christmastime I'm so pretty