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Molded Sea-Food Salad – Glistening And Jiggly Finalist #3
Congrats to Michelle, the third finalist for the Glistening and Jiggly Contest in the “Worst Gelatin” category! Michelle sent us this weird thing, which was both very exciting and very disgusting. This is Molded Sea-Food Salad. It is exciting for many reasons. One...
Pineapple Olive Salad – Glistening And Jiggly Finalist #2
Wow. I just…wow. That’s really all I have to say about the next finalist. In my opinion, this is really the epitome of a bad gelatin salad. Is it possible to have a perfect worst gelatin salad? Do you say it’s “perfectly terrible”? Or that is the “perfect food storm”?...
Glistening And Jiggly Gelatin Finalist #1 –Tomato Ham Salad Loaf
This is it! This is IT! It’s finally here. Out of over 50 submissions, I’ve tested 28 gelatins and Tom has tasted every single one. We took pictures, we made notes and we even fought about who the finalists were. So it has come down to this: Not only are we ready to...
Spaghetti Subs – A Retro Recipe Test
Okay, okay. You got me. This post is NOT about gelatin. I have to admit that the gelatin contest has been kicking my butt recently. My fridge is full of gelatin, my cabinets are full of boxes of the stuff and I STILL have a bunch of recipes to test. But fear not. Tom...
The Gelatin Testing Continues – And So Does The Weirdness!
Wow! Did you guys send me the stuff!! I can’t believe some of the recipes that came in for the gelatin contest. And, unbelievably, I’ve even made some weirder stuff this week than I did last week. The name of the game this week: “Things Aren’t What They Seem.” Tom’s...
Gelatin Recipe Testing Has Begun – And It’s Weird
Oh, Holy Cow! I am very, very excited about this contest. We got in about 50 entries (!) this time and competition is fierce! The entries have really been all over the map on this one. It has been so much fun so far that I just had to share some teaser pictures with...
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Icing and Filling – A Retro Recipe Test
So, right now I am in gelatin up to my elbows. Mixing, stirring, molding and unmolding delicious and deliciously questionable gelatin recipes that you wonderful people sent to me for our gelatin contest. So, I decided to bring out something that was ultra-yummy and...
Checkerboard Bake with Kraft Dinner and Spam – A Retro Recipe Test
Did you know that it has been over a year since I made a SPAM dish for this blog?? I know, I know. Shameful. But that is all behind us now, because not only have I made it all good by making a dinner with SPAM, I’ve upped the ante by making a dinner that includes both...
Black Magic Chocolate Cake Made With Condensed Tomato Soup – A Retro Recipe Test
I cannot resist cakes with weird ingredients. I just can’t. So, when I came across a recipe for a chocolate cake that had, as the “secret” ingredient, a can of condensed tomato soup, I knew I was going to have to make it. The recipe came from a recent Salvation Army...
Cheese & Ham Casserole – A Retro Recipe Test
So, if you are anything like me, you have about eight pounds of leftover Easter Ham in your fridge or freezer right now, just mocking you. Well, maybe not mocking you. But it’s not exactly in there thinking about how it’s going to make itself into delicious dishes...
Glistening And Jiggly – A Mid-Century Menu Gelatin Contest
I think it’s about time for another contest, don’t you??? Yeah. I think it’s about that time. And the theme of this contest??? Gelatin! Jell-O. Knox. The jiggly stuff. The good stuff. The stuff that glued our childhoods together. The stuff that held bits of...
Thanks For All The Easter Lamb Cakes And My Radio Interview Is Online!
Whew!! The Eight Days of Lamb Cakes has come to a close and was it ever fun! Thank you so much to everyone who contributed, commented and generally followed along as I worked my way from last year’s lamb cake disaster to finding my Grandmother’s lamb cake (the Renalde...