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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I was raised Bretheren as well. My mum always used to provide the Harvest loaf for the harvest festival.
I think it was lime jelly but I am sure someone can correct me but a church that I was involved with for a children’s outreach held a Canadian evening and this where I was introduced to jelly as a savoury dish with salad. It had beetroot in it and I think it was lime.
I thought that was England that consumes the most Spam bought over by our “yank” counsins and adopted as our own.
Are you British?
As to the melting. By the time the millions of kids make it through the buffet line, the jello is gone, and it hasn’t had time to melt. LOL.
You are probably right about budget and I suppose this is why jelly and ice cream was seen as at treat when I was a child.
Jelly and evaporated milk most of the time but special events such as parties warranted for ice cream.
I have to laugh, because my in-laws are LDS. I learned many a holiday party, family celebration ago to leave room in the fridge...my m-i-l is packing a Jello of some kind.
I said state, not country. :)
England probably does consume the most Spam. (I’m not a big fan of English ‘cuisine’)
Yes I am British I live in South East England
I see by your later posts that you are, indeed, British. My husband was a Mormon missionary in England in the 60’s. He came home with a taste for some kind of custard that you can buy a mix for, and some kind of toasted grain drink. I can’t remember the name of either. Also, fish and chips. He says it doesn’t taste the same unless there is newsprint on it. Also beans on toast, with an egg if they had enough money.
There’s a Catholic family in the south part of the Salt Lake Valley that runs a place selling the best fish and chips you can get around here. Yummm.
Take some gallon size Zip Lock bags with you.
People like to send there left overs home with you, but they want to keep their dishes.
My husband was in Southwest England. Oxford, and a little town called St. Austell.
When people say they do not like our food I often wonder what they think we eat.
The main difference I find is the way we cook vegetables you tend to add more to them whereas we normally just boil or steam ours unless we are roasting them.
We also tend to serve meat with less sauces and spices than Americans but apart from that a lot of our favourite meals in 2008 are very similar such as chili, spag bol, macaroni cheese and of course BBQ food.
One of big differences I would say is breakfast food we tend to eat pancakes, muffins, waffles, omelets etc as part of our evening meal either as a light meal in the case of omelets or the sweet items for desert.
Okay, that makes sense. My mother used to make a couple of versions of a jello salad, one with fruit and one with vegetables. The fruit one was pretty good.
It is even more instant now you just add boiling water to it whereas at one time you had to make it with milk.
The local supermarket I shop at do a very good instant custard mix. I cannot imagine apple pie or various sponge puddings without custard.
The toasted grain drink is puzzling me unless you mean orange or lemon barley which is a drink you mix with water.
It is even more instant now you just add boiling water to it whereas at one time you had to make it with milk.
The local supermarket I shop at do a very good instant custard mix. I cannot imagine apple pie or various sponge puddings without custard.
The toasted grain drink is puzzling me unless you mean orange or lemon barley which is a drink you mix with water.
It is even more instant now you just add boiling water to it whereas at one time you had to make it with milk.
The local supermarket I shop at do a very good instant custard mix. I cannot imagine apple pie or various sponge puddings without custard.
The toasted grain drink is puzzling me unless you mean orange or lemon barley which is a drink you mix with water.
I have heard of the town I actually live in Ashford where we have the international rail station and not far from the Channel Tunnel.
:)
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