Day 28 - 5/8/07

My Ribbon Salad

This is the Jell-O salad I was making the other day. The top two layers didn't come out quite the way I would have hoped, because the topmost white layer was thicker than it ought to be and didn't spread out as nicely.

All in all, it came out very well. DH is looking forward to having it for dessert tonight, and it makes so much that I will have plenty to take and share around some at work, too.

I don't know why it looks like there is an extra white layer on top in the first photo - the top layer is red Jell-O, as you can see by the other photo below. Maybe it's just a reflection - I set it near a window, hoping for the light to go through the Jell-O and show off the colors in the layers. I also notice in the below picture that the window is very well reflected, and I can see the shadows of the things sitting on the sill - never thought of that while I was picking a location to shoot the photo!


This is a very summery salad, but does not hold up well in the heat. My sister made it for our family reunion last year and hers kinda fell apart in the heat, despite being nestled into a tub of ice. I told her I had made it, and she is now thinking of making a special trip over here to visit, just so she can have some.

Day 26 - 5/6/07

I finally came up with another Food entry for this week!

I'm making a jell0 salad today. I don't really consider it a salad, but that's the name of it. It's called "Ribbon Salad" and it's one of my grandma's recipes that all of her grandkids love. I don't know if DH likes it or not - he doesn't remember ever having tried it. I've been wanting to make it for a while now, so if he doesn't like it, I'll just take some in to work to share. I don't mind.

This is the cookbook that the recipe is in. Several years ago the Ladies Society at my Grandma's church put together a cookbook. All of the ladies submitted recipes and they got them organized and bound into a cookbook, which they then sold as a fundraiser. Grandma got all of her grandchildren one of these cookbooks as part of our Christmas gifts that year. The cover actually shows a drawing of the church as it is now, and the smaller drawing is the church the way it looked when it was founded. That original building still exists; it is across the street from the current building.