Green Stuff

This post is a bit spontaneous, has a crappy quality picture (read: cell phone) and yet I had to snap the picture and write it right anyway. 

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and for sure I have a lot to be thankful for but that is a post for another day. I'll try for tomorrow but no promises. Tomorrow it's just going to be the 3 of us at our house for dinner but I'm still making the traditional turkey dinner.  Parker will probably only eat some mashed potatoes if I'm lucky but I still think the dinner is important.  When I was making the list of things I wanted to prepare I knew well enough not to make everything that may normally be on the Thanksgiving dinner table.  How much can the 3 of us really eat.  Wait don't answer that. There will be no sweet potatoes (we don't particularly care for them), there won't be a green bean casserole, there won't be monkey bread (the savory variety) and there won't be greens or macaroni and cheese.  Many years all of those are on our table.

One thing that will be on our table though is green stuff.  It's my favorite.  What?  You don't know what that is??  Well you may have had it before but have called it something different.  In our family, it has always been green stuff.  No other name will suffice, ever.  I've made it, I'm sure my mom has made it, my cousin makes it, but it was my Grama, she was the one who always made it for the holidays.  Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter green stuff was on our table.  This year will not be different.  I have not made it in quite a while but tonight as I started to make it and I poured the ingredients into the bowl the smell hit me.  I think the smell is really just pistachio pudding but since I never just make that plain, the smell to me was green stuff.  The smell flooded my mind with memories of my childhood and holiday meals.  My Grama came to mind immediately and it made me thankful for my childhood and everything I had.  A simple 4 ingredient "recipe" (read: dump and mix) made me remember what a lucky child I was and still am.  Although my Grama is now gone I know she would be so happy that we still make green stuff to this day. 

Yup, that's the whole thing!  Pistachio pudding, cool whip, crushed pineapple and walnuts.  Oh and if you make it you will be able to see that it really is a light green even though the photo makes it look white.