Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Moldin' of the Green

St. Patrick's Day is mostly known for one type of consumption: green beer. Okay, some people might make corned beef and cabbage or Irish soda bread or colcannon too. Recipes on Parade: Salads Including Appetizers (Military Officers' Wives Clubs, 1966) thinks that St. Patrick's Day should be a gelatin salad holiday, though. You can get things started with some Irish Turkey.


Yeah... Nothing like preparing for a day of drinking with a belly full of corned-beef-mayo-and-egg gelatin!

Then, of course, you need some veggies. How about St. Patrick's Avocado Mold?


Lime Jell-O with curry powder, avocado, mayo, green pepper, and olives should be pretty memorable. (Just hope you only have to remember it going down and not also coming up.)

Now we've just got to top everything off with a dessert-y Jell-O. How about St. Patrick's Day Mold?


I'm not sure lime and pineapple really need peppermint flavoring, and I really hope the cook is lucky enough to get salmonella-free eggs for the rich and cream cheesy middle layer, but this last mold definitely sounds like the best bet! Of course, the first two recipes set the bar pretty low.

Have a happy St. Patrick's Day next week! You've got plenty of time to prepare some Jell-O!

2 comments:

  1. The author has a very interesting concept of what constitutes turkey. Perhaps she had a lot of green beer before coming up with that one.
    The other recipes can be filed under the category of matching food colors doesn't automatically make them go together. Lime jello with curry powder in it would end up being a special color though.

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    1. I think the Irish Turkey name is kind of sarcastic, like Welsh rabbit. At least it has a presumed nationality. The lime Jell-O with curry powder, avocadoes, and olives is having an identity crisis. I mean, yes, fusion cuisines can be great, but I don't think that mold would count as a good example.

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