Hello and Happy Thanksgiving from the prodigal costumer...
Just wanted to send my love to everyone. Am off to Tom's family's big Thanksgiving dinner today in Red Deer. I had hoped to become part of the festivites (rather than brooding about missing out on making tofurkey and eating it with Mum). So I attempted to make a jello mould. That's right, kids - mandarin slices and marashino cherries and everything! I even used fruit juice in the guck, hoping it would flavour the monstrosity into submission. Well, slightly hungover today (went out to celebrate my domesticity and homework situation and ran into some theatre kids), I flipped the mould, praying for a round gelatinous being, with the cherries I had placed at the top in an X-pattern. No such luck. A loud sucking noise and the thing plopped into the bowl I was putting it in... And now it's a mess. I tried some too - no wonder people never try to make this shyte.
Sigh.
So I can be honest when saying the best part of this gelatinous mess was running around in my apron, dancing to Social Distortion whilst creating culinary blunders.
Ha ha ha.
Here, instead, is a photo of what I *wanted* the jello to look like.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you do not encounter wierd jello or similar on this festive holiday.
PS. The jello tasted rather like flavoured lube... But went over just dandy last night.
Just wanted to send my love to everyone. Am off to Tom's family's big Thanksgiving dinner today in Red Deer. I had hoped to become part of the festivites (rather than brooding about missing out on making tofurkey and eating it with Mum). So I attempted to make a jello mould. That's right, kids - mandarin slices and marashino cherries and everything! I even used fruit juice in the guck, hoping it would flavour the monstrosity into submission. Well, slightly hungover today (went out to celebrate my domesticity and homework situation and ran into some theatre kids), I flipped the mould, praying for a round gelatinous being, with the cherries I had placed at the top in an X-pattern. No such luck. A loud sucking noise and the thing plopped into the bowl I was putting it in... And now it's a mess. I tried some too - no wonder people never try to make this shyte.
Sigh.
So I can be honest when saying the best part of this gelatinous mess was running around in my apron, dancing to Social Distortion whilst creating culinary blunders.
Ha ha ha.
Here, instead, is a photo of what I *wanted* the jello to look like.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you do not encounter wierd jello or similar on this festive holiday.
PS. The jello tasted rather like flavoured lube... But went over just dandy last night.
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My grandma used to make one with lime jello, grated carrot, chopped cabbage & some other item I can't recall. I have the 100 Years of Jello aniversary cookbook, all sorts of fun stuff in there! Has it snowed yet??
Jello's actually beef cartilidge.
Interesting fact about Jello/beef cartilidge:
At Harvard University a test group of seniors with arthritis were given a teaspoon of ground up chicken cartilidge a day in thier orange juice. At the end of 30 days most of the test group reported reduced inflamation and pain. By 60 days, most of the test group had improved use of thier hands. By day 90 all of the test group could open a brand new pickle jar.
I can't back any of that up.