Posted on 03/07/2008 6:57:55 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Last fall, my husband's Mormon family invited us over for a potluck. Potlucks are a big deal for Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, and my in-laws are no exception. Naturally, I wanted to impress them. Naturally, I cracked open The Essential Mormon Cookbook, by Julie Badger Jensen.
Unfortunately, no matter where I turned in Jensen's cookbook, I was called to commit atrocities. After flipping past Jell-O recipes that involved suspending melon chunks in a trembling, plutonium-green blob ("Loveable Lime Jell-O"). After skipping everything that called for a can of Campbell’s soup into which meat, noodle or bean was thrown to either sink or swim. After pondering the dredging of chicken breasts in Russian dressing, apricot jam and dry onion soup mix ("Amazing Apricot Chicken"). After mulling the hithering and thithering of salads with mini marshmallows, pineapple tidbits and Craisins. And after toying with, then quickly dismissing, the possibility of making a cheese ball (dry ranch dressing, chopped chives and cheddar strings), I gave up.
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The Mormons would be well rid of that witchy snob.
“The Mormons would be well rid of that witchy snob.”
Amen to THAT!
“Foodie Ping” to HG! :)
Culinary connoisseurs are not tolerated by the LDS?
She could have just made whatever it is she makes best without consulting a “Mormon cookbook.” But then she wouldn’t have got a big ol’ sneering article out of it.
The state that consumes the most Jello is .....
If you guessed Utah, come down front and pick up your prize.
Little Smokies in a crockpot full of BBQ sauce is a sacrament in the Methodist Church.
Presbyterians always have a ham so people don’t think they are Jewish.
Baptists consider it bad luck to have a pot luck if there isn’t a picture of Jesus, coconut cake and coffee.
Episcopals would not be caught dead at a pot luck lest people mistake them for Lutherans.
A blessing at a Pentecostal pot luck must last long enough for all the food to get cold.
We Southern Baptists have fried chicken.
If they only knew how it was made.
Texas Episcopalians have potlucks on every possible opportunity!
We even have potluck breakfasts on Sunday. (sans wine) (until later)
Is that still true, AP? I know it’s a joke we tell on ourselves. During the Olympics one of the most popular pins was a green jello pin to represent Utah. But, in all my years 40+ of taking dishes church functions, I’ve never taken jello.
Yeah I got a book about favorite foods and it had the Jello reference. Guess the favorite flavor.
I was raised as a Plymouth Brethren. Somewhere between Southern Baptist and Quakers on the conservative scale.
My Mom always took a lime jello/cream cheese/pineapple/walnut
dessert to the potlucks. Sound gross, but it was pretty good, even to a finicky kid. :)
I'll see your Baptist fried chicken(which I dearly love) and raise you a Catholic fish fry(Walleye or pan fish);)
I went to an assembly of God church for about 18 years before a forced divorce and finding the woman of my dreams lefy me with no choice but to move on. I had no complaints about the church and actually got some very good teaching there, much of which I agree with and some was truly looney.
But I always called potlucks “fun with ballpark franks”. Of course, you got double points for any dish containing wieners AND Mac and cheese. Some of the food was very good, but most was not worth the calories.
Regarding the article, agree or not, I must side with Mater:
“I don’t care who y’are. THAT’s funny!”
Lime? My mom used to make lime jello with pineapple, shreded carrots, and cottage cheese.
I like to think we’ve evolved. My Sunday School class is coming to my home on Sunday night. We’re having finger foods. Tenderloin with blue cheese sauce and arugula on ciabatta, something resembling a muffaletta, but with less olive, a nicoise type vegetable tray, and chocolate fondue. No jello.
Lime is correct. You win another prize
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