Life Lesons Learned in the Kitchen, entry #2

Do you drive on the freeway for your first spin in a car at 15?

Do you learn how to walk before you can crawl?

Do you yell out the punch line of a joke before the lines are appropriately delivered?

Do you watch season 3 of a show before you've finished season 1?

No folks.

You don't.

Yeah that's right. You don't.

So why find a random recipe and try to make it at the last minute when you have to bring it somewhere?

I should have been suspicious of some of the ingredients. I mean, come on, I know food. 3/4 c. flour....unheard of for this type of dish. No oil or butter.....blasphemous! I knew it was too good to be true.

Yes folks.

It was folks.

I may be no Julia Childs, but I can cook. I mean, come on. I can whip something up that you will likely enjoy. However, I should have recalled that it is a bad idea to bring a dish somewhere when I haven't ever tried it before. Don't jump the gun and commit when you may likely crash and burn. Yes, I said it gang. Become acquainted first, then commit.

Great-Grandma's Raspberry Jello

When I was little we'd go over to my great-grandparent's house in Yakima for Thanksgiving and Easter dinner. On the table we would each have a little adorable jello that had been placed in a mold (a teeny jello ring). The jello was the delicious mess described below. I cannot have a family dinner without this jello. It is heaven on earth.

It's so good. You have to try it.

1 large box of raspberry Jello
2 cups boiling water
1 cup cold pineapple juice (from the can of pineapple)
One 2/3 size can (not the regular size) of pineapple tidbits, drained. --be sure to save one cup of the juice
1 cup of frozen raspberries
1 cup of whipping cream (prior to whipping)
1 Tbl powdered sugar
1 tsp Vanilla

Add Jello to boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add pineapple juice. Stir and chill until almost set. In the meantime, whip the cream and combine with powdered sugar and vanilla. Once the Jello is close to being set, fold the whipped cream into the Jello and then fold in the drained pineapple and the frozen raspberries. Continue chilling until firm.

The other day at work I was showing my friend the beloved jello left over from Thanksgiving and he said it looked like cat vomit. I really wouldn't know, I'm not a cat person.