Saturday, June 6, 2026

A rainbow of Jell-Os that requires inclusivity!

It's Pride Month, so I hope you know what that means! We get a rainbow parade of wildly jiggling Jell-O! It warms my heart how much a salad/ dessert can get into the spirit of the holiday. This year's recipe provider is Country Cookin'  from Ross Chapel Church in Bolts Fork, Kentucky (1977).

Since this year has been such a sour and bitter one, the recipes this time are a sweet counterbalance. We'll start with Apple-Solutely Delicious to represent red. 


Granted, the Miracle Whip and sour cream will likely turn the raspberry gelatin pink, but you always have to be very inclusive with your definitions of colors when we're talking Jell-O molds! (And you also have to be very generous with your definition of  "delicious" when Miracle Whip is involved. But hey, Pride Month is about inclusivity.)

Now for something orange: Sunset Salad.


Okay, this is orange-and-yellow, but again, be inclusive! The carrots will make it orange enough to count (and crunchy enough to be fun). 

Lemon Bisque is a rare gelatin that also involves vanilla wafers.


Sounds good, but it might be bit of a shock to anyone who was expecting banana pudding when they saw it. (And speaking of a shock... What is "Wilson cream"? Uh... I'll let you insert your own off-color joke here...)


(There's a little joke just for me. If you get it, 5000 bonus points, you perv.)

Now on to green, with Lime Chiffon Salad.


Chiffons are usually made with whipped egg whites, but this one subs in cottage cheese and mayonnaise. Not really sure how that qualifies as "chiffon," but we will be inclusive! (Sometimes it's hard work.)

Unfortunately, the book didn't have anything in blue/ purple color range, so I'm going to end by doubling-down on the rainbow theme with Broken-Glass Cake (which does not actually involve broken glass, which you hopefully guessed, or cake, which you may not have realized). 

This just mixes cubes of the various colors of Jell-O together to make one... We'll be generous and call it "glorious"... confection.

At least everything is sweet, and no pickles or olives were involved. May your Pride Month be sweet and inclusive, and may it only involve Wilson cream if all parties consent first!

2 comments:

  1. Happy pride month!
    Thankfully we have bright, artificially colored foods available in all colors of the rainbow for pride month now, even jello. Someone should start a rainbow jello molds contest (or challenge) for pride month. Maybe it could replace the pieathelon. Making jello in the summer is certainly easier than heating up the house for pie.

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    1. The full rainbow is certainly easier now that we have both grape and berry blue.

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