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:: Sea foam lime mold (I curse the day I introduced that onto a menu!) ::

I must admit this one brought me up short as I was mentally savoring yoru menu.  Maybe it needs a fanciful yet holiday-relevant name, like, umm....  "Lime Noël"?

I like your thinking!  If I was not also obliged to serve it at Thanksgiving, New Year and Easter I would change the name.  It isn't so much the name of the dish as the fact that it has become so necessary but also overused.  I crave to serve something else.  My youngest daughter is now the only person who eats it with the exception of my gentleman son who, I think, eats it to keep her company.  It is not a bad dish and I have loved it in the past.  However, most of our guests are confused by the almost dessert like character of the lime jello, cream cheese, pineapple and marshmallows!  They wonder why I am serving dessert with the main course.  I guess it is a family heirloom!  

I see a future for an artificial lime mold, like the ones the Japanese restaurants do to show customers what the dish will look like.  Then it will be there (on the sideboard, anyway) at every holiday meal -- but no one has to eat it. <g>