Quilting and Kay’s Delight

For a number of years I taught quilting in the Metro Atlanta area and this recipe came from a lady in one of the classes — I can’t even remember her name.  She had connections — family or good friends – in Spain and as a result I made three Dresden Plant quilts that were shipped to Spain.  When I first made this recipe at home, our granddaughter fell in love with it.  She was about ten years old and I taught her how to make it.  Kay was our only grandchild and she died when she was 27 with Epilepsy.

Kay’s Delight

1 12  oz. container cottage cheese
1 12 oz. container whipped topping
1 3 oz. box of gelatin
1 small can mandarin oranges

The good thing about this is that all you do is soften the topping, drain the oranges and then just fling it together.  Chill before serving — I usually make mine the day before.

I always put this in John’s great aunt, Camalean’s, refrigerator bowl (with the blue lid)– it’s just perfect.  I no longer see new refrigerator bowls, but they were so convenient because they had lids. I’ve included some in the picture.  The large one is just right for cantaloupe; however, the lid has been broken.

Let me share another eating incident while teaching quilting.  This time the classes were in a church fellowship hall and the last day everybody brought their covered dish for us to eat together and, if needed, some just poked theirs in the refrigerator.  We had lots of good food and, of course, I tried to taste it all.  I asked more than once who had brought a certain dish and nobody had. We decided the lady who had to leave early had brought it and I was appointed to take the empty dish home with me and get it to its owner later.  Now I had all the gear packed in the 1970 Chevrolet Impala (quilting frames sticking out the window) and I’m about to leave the parking lot when somebody started yelling for me to stop.  The mystery dish had belonged to the kindergarten teacher and she was to take it to her friend who had just had a new baby!!  Oh My!!  She was very gracious about our mistake and asked,  “You eat it without baking it?”

There are lots of funny stories when it comes to quilting parties and they are all similar to country living.