Belated (Or Is It Early?) Holiday Salad Advice

Actually, it's sort of universal advice, so feel free to use it all year round!

Mrs. Hecht’s Congealed Cucumber Salad: It tastes as pretty as it looks.

I WON’T LIE. The holiday season is extremely difficult for me, and not in a Grinchy bah-humbug way or in the hilarious holiday-h…