You haven't lived until you've had a church-basement supper that includes a salad made with shredded cabbage and carrots encased in green or orange Jello, with mayonnaise dressing. (barf) Only one step down from the green Jello salad with fruit cocktail that was served with mayo-and-ketchup dressing, my aunt Angee made this EVERY Thanksgiving for salad!! What is with people, Jello is DESSERT!!
Only one step down from the green Jello salad with fruit cocktail that was served with mayo-and-ketchup dressing, my aunt Angee made this EVERY Thanksgiving for salad!! What is with people, Jello is DESSERT!!Ewwww! Fruit cocktail with mayo and ketchup! Ew!
Actually, Europeans used to make aspic as a savory side dish for a main meal. Gelatin is made from boiling meat bones and contains protein. Aspics contain some sort of vegetables or meat in a gelatin, and are usually made in fancy molds. The difference is, true aspics are NOT made with highly sweetened and dyed packaged dessert gelatin like Jello.
Here are a vegetable-nut aspic, and a tomato aspic. Both are made with unflavored clear gelatin:
