<p>abasket, take a look at the cranberry jello mold I posted - it has walnuts and celery in it. It is from Better Home and Gardens. I’m going to make it no matter what DH says. :)</p>
<p>This is amazing jello - and not very hard to make.<br>
We call it … Grandma Vera’s Jello.</p>
<p>Melt 1/2 cup red hots in 1 cup water.
Stir in an 23oz jar of applesauce.
Stir in 2 boxes
of instant red jello</p>
<p>Put in fridge to set.</p>
<p>Love it MaterMia, the addition of the red hots is inspired! Grandma Vera sounds like she had some verve.</p>
<p>She did! It’s really good, and I sometimes use it with ham.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice that today’s “Zits” is about rainbow jello? :D</p>
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<p>There once was a man who lost a bet with my husband…
and had to cook dinner for us for a month ( happiest month of my life ) other than not having to cook for a month what I remember most was these simple, savory, DELICIOUS sweet potatoes.</p>
<p>[Thyme-Roasted</a> Sweet Potatoes | Serious Eats : Recipes](<a href=“http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/11/healthy-thyme-roasted-sweet-potatoes-recipe.html]Thyme-Roasted”>The Best Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe)</p>
<p>I don’t eat many carbs any more, but I do remember these fondly!</p>
<p>But for the record I make a decadent sweet potatoe souffle for Thanksgiving it is close to this but I add a glug of bourbon!</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sweet-potato-souffl-10000000258016/]Sweet”>http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sweet-potato-souffl-10000000258016/]Sweet</a> Potato Souffl</p>
<p>My mother’s mold didn’t have nuts…but I am going to try the one here. </p>
<p>You know, we might bring back that jello thing. I do have (because I gave out the recipe to a charity cookbook) my mother’s blueberry and cream mold. It was amazing.</p>
<p>The bb and cream mold sounds like it’s worth posting- could you? Our “stuck with” dish was MIL’s tomato aspic, also based on Jello. Now that I think about it, I think it used the old celery Jello.<br>
NE mom asked if the cranb-mango relish could be frozen- I haven’t done that, but it holds in the frig well (made Sunday, I think.) Used it over pork chops tonight.</p>
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<p>Now why didn’t I ever think of that – bourbon and sweet potatoes! What could be better?</p>
<p>The whole jello mold thing is retro and charming. It makes me happy to contemplate it. My mom would occasionally do a tuna fish/green jello thing. The horror! I’ve just kind of flushed the memory of the details but I think it also involved peas.</p>
<p>That whole generation of moms of boomers had some really kooky personalities. My mom would hang with a crowd of ladies who played bridge for money and also glued tiles to TV trays and end tables. They all smoked like chimneys, drank Manhattans, played bridge, and glued tiles on useless household objects. Then they’d go make strange jello concoctions. Gotta love 'em. As I recall, there was a year or two when they all were obsessed with The King and would occasionally head off together to one of his concerts. So weird! It all seemed normal, after all, it was my mom!</p>
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<p>“also glued tiles to TV trays and end tables.”</p>
<p>I can’t stop laughing. This is how my mom “made things nice.”</p>
<p>Calreader…oh the memories! the “Gel Food” As seen on TV had me snorting coffee…</p>
<p>“cherry coke jello”</p>
<p>So help me, this stuff is really good. Seriously. It’s not a Thanksgiving tradition around here, and I wouldn’t make it one, but putting Bing cherries, pineapple, walnuts, and Coke into cherry jello is delicious. It’s even featured in “The Southern Belle Primer” as a top 10 funeral casserole.</p>
<p>Guess I just don’t have the gene to love jello!!! :)</p>
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<p>Can you let us in on the other nine?</p>
<p>"Calreader…oh the memories! the “Gel Food” As seen on TV had me snorting coffee… "</p>
<p>OMG, “Klingon Brains”… LOL. Thanks for posting that, Calreader.</p>
<p>I posted before that I am putting together a recipe book of my late MIL’s recipes for her kids and grandkids. She was from a small steel town near Pittsburgh and went to lots of church suppers and pot lucks with friends. Hanna’s comment about Cherry Coke jello reminded me of one recipe I came across recently: 7-up Cake. The 7-up Cake calls for 10 ounces of 7-up, a box of yellow cake mix, vegetable oil, a package of instant vanilla pudding, and 4 eggs. The frosting for the cake was made of sugar, flour, margarine, coconut, crushed pineapple, and eggs. My folks were immigrants, so I never grew up with food like this and I crack up reading it. When I told my H–his comment was–“you know, I remember that and it was pretty good.”</p>
<p>7-Up cake was DELICIOUS!!! I remember it being very moist and I think Mom baked it in a Bundt pan.</p>
<p>Bromfield I was with you until eggs in the frosting for the 7up cake. Not picturing that one. The rest fits with other recipes I have run across.</p>
<p>This is such a good easy cake from childhood … very moist:
1 yellow cake mix - not the extra, extra moist kind. Put in a 13 X 9 cake pan, and bake.
When cake comes out, poke holes in the cake with long end of a wooden spoon, while still warm. Pour in a can of “cream de coconut” all over the cake. Put in fridge to cool. Top with tub of whipped cream, and sprinkle coconut on top.
We call it the Pina Colada Cake.</p>