Jello Molds

I love the way jello looks. Those beautiful colors with the light shining through it.

Eating Plain jello, not so much.

But I do like jello with stuff in it. I was looking at one of my cookbooks that I'm not sure I have ever made a recipe from it, and I thought "I'll make the first recipe that I come to that I have the ingredients for." The cookbooks is called Salads. I love salads, so that's probably why I bought it. From a yard sale or thrift shop.

So the recipe I found was a jello recipe that calls for lime or lemon gelatin, pineapple, pimiento cheese, celery, nuts, carrots and mayonnaise. I didn't have lime or lemon, but I figured that orange would do, and I didn't have pimiento cheese, but I did have some pimientos in a small jar and some cheddar cheese (same thing). I liked it. I took some to my brothers house and they liked it. It did have a curious appearance however. I thought perhaps it was the orange jello so I tried the green (lime). It also had an unappealing color. Today I tried a layer of orange and lime. It looks better. I have yet to taste it.

When I was young and I was somewhere that had jello with any kind of vegetables in it, I tended to turn my nose up at it. I thought only fruit went well with jello. Jello seems to have been a very popular dish for potlucks when I was young. And it was often made in pretty molds which are so attractive. But I don't bother with that.

My grandmother who often brought several dishes to dinners that were at our house. And several times one of them would be a jello in a fancy mold. For some reason my mom and my grandmother would always argue about who was going to unmold the jello. I can't think why. It seems like a silly thing to argue about. Eventually my grandmother quit bringing jello to our house.

I noticed that the publishing date for the Salad cookbook was from around the time when I was growing up. I'm not sure, but I think that there was a bit of a fad for jello back then.

One jello recipe remained a family favorite over the years, it was a strawberry jello, with stuff in it of course.