good jello/fruit combos?

JLove98905 said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands?

I can tell you one combo that _doesn't_ work: fresh pineapple and any flavor of Jello.

Canned pineapple works just fine, but fresh is a disaster. Care to guess why?

JLove98905 said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright

A classic is strawberry jello with strawberries, pineapple, walnuts and bananas, with a layer of
sour cream. (Canned pineapple because fresh contains an enzyme which interferes with jelling.)

gloria p

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I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen

Just fruit and Jello, no additional ingredients?

- thawed frozen or fresh sliced strawberries, canned crushed pineapple, and diced banana in straberry-
banana Jello

- halved and pitted black cherries in black cherry Jello (I also add broken toasted pecan pieces)

Below is the current list of Jell-O flavors. Also their website. Pay around!

Wayne

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Apricot Berry Blue Black Cherry Cherry Cranberry Cranberry Raspberry Grape Island Pineapple Lemon
Lime Mango Mixed Fruit Orange Peach Raspberry Strawberry Strawberry-Banana Strawberry Kiwi White
Grape Wild Strawberry

canned sliced or chopped pears with pecans, cream cheese and lime jello

or

mandarin oranges with orange jello made with ginger ale instead of cold water

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I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen

Oops! I missed the "or other stuff".

- diced red apple, diced celery, broken toasted walnuts in Lemon Jell-O (you can also sub up to 1/2
cup mayo for part of the cold water)

This one may seem a little odd or even weird, but it's surprisingly tasty...

- substitute V-8 Juice for both the hot and cold liquid using lemon Jell-O; add a teaspoon of
Worcestershire sauce, a half teaspoon Tobasco sauce, a little grated onion, diced celery, chopped
stuffed olives, etc.

Wayne

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JLove98905 said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work
the best in your hands?

I can tell you one combo that _doesn't_ work: fresh pineapple and any flavor of Jello.

Canned pineapple works just fine, but fresh is a disaster. Care to guess why?

Sure, enzymes. The same reason fresh papaya won't work. The enzymes prevent jelling.

Wayne

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(JLove98905) said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands?

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-Jen

My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

Red Jell-O with banana slices folded in.
--
-Barb A good friend will come and bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting next to you
saying, "Damn,that was fun!"

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I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright

Calve's foot and garlic jello with horseradish.

-bwg You Petcha

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I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen

This is going to be much simpler than what most people will post. My absolute favorite jello/fruit
combo is simply sliced bananas in cherry jello. Mmmmm.....

If I had bananas in the house, I'd go make some right now.

My grandma used to use the cans of "fruit cocktail" and mix that in with varying flavors of jello,
and that was good too. I personally prefer the red flavors of jello, but I can see it being good in
other flavors too.

-Sapphire.

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My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

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-Barb

My mom makes a similar "aspec". She boils tomato juice with herbs such at clove and bay leave, adds
geltatin and pours this mixture over shredded carrots, chopped celery and shrimp. She makes it in a
bundt type pan and it's always served with a dollop of mayonaise too.

Laura B.

Sapphire said:

(JLove98905) said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work the
best in your hands? -Jen

This is going to be much simpler than what most people will post. My absolute favorite jello/fruit
combo is simply sliced bananas in cherry jello. Mmmmm.....

If I had bananas in the house, I'd go make some right now.

My grandma used to use the cans of "fruit cocktail" and mix that in with varying flavors of jello,
and that was good too. I personally prefer the red flavors of jello, but I can see it being good
in other flavors too.

-Sapphire.

For family holiday dinners, I usually make lime jello with mandarin orange sections, pineapple
tidbits and sometimes pieces of grapefruit sections.

'wyrm

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(JLove98905) said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work
the best in your hands?

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-Jen

My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

Same here. We always had a Jell-O salad, sometimes two. I never make Jell-O, but when I go to family
events for the holidays, I look forward to the Jell-O salads. One was raspberry Jell-o with frozen
raspberries and crushed pineapple. It was topped with sour cream and mini-marshmallows. The other
salad was lime Jell-O, whipped cream, cream cheese, and fruit cocktail. Although these are classic
salads from the 1960's and, as you point out, consider gauche by foodies, they are part of my food
memories. That is why I think it is a mistake to get too avant-garde with holiday menus at the
expense of continuing family traditions.

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I'm looking for some good combos for jello >>with fruit (or other

stuff) in it. What combos >>work the best in your hands?

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-Jen

. .
1): I like lime jello with canned grapefruit. One of my sisters like lime jello with crushed
pineapple.
2): Lemon jello made with strewed tomatoes, black olives, V-8, dehygrated onion bits, garlic
granules, tabasco makes a nice salad-y side.

~~~Gina~~~

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Quoted message said:

My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

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-Barb

My mom makes a similar "aspec". She boils tomato juice with herbs such at clove and bay leave,
adds geltatin and pours this mixture over shredded carrots, chopped celery and shrimp. She makes
it in a bundt type pan and it's always served with a dollop of mayonaise too. Laura B.

I like tomato aspic. I just might have to muck about with a pkg of Knox unflavored gelatin and some
V-8 juice that I have on hand. I've got shrimps, celery, and carrots, too. Maybe a little grated
onion, too.
--
-Barb A good friend will come and bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting next to you
saying, "Damn,that was fun!"

Melba's Jammin said:

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(JLove98905) said:

I'm looking for some good combos for jello with fruit (or other stuff) in it. What combos work
the best in your hands?

Quoted message said:

-Jen

My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

Red Jell-O with banana slices folded in.
--
-Barb A good friend will come and bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting next to you
saying, "Damn,that was fun!"

A friend gave my mother, a recipe for a similar dish years ago. She served it at Easter that year. I
loved it . Have looked for years for the recipe. She didn't keep it. Maybe I was the only one who
liked it. I remember it had lime jello, shredded cabbage and carrots, maybe crushed pineapple and
nuts. I remember it did have sliced bananas, too. I'm not sure but it may have had mayo. Weird
combination. hugs ..... kate

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My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13
pan. Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

Quoted message said:

-Barb

My mom makes a similar "aspec". She boils tomato juice with herbs such at clove and bay leave,
adds geltatin and pours this mixture over shredded carrots, chopped celery and shrimp. She makes
it in a bundt type pan and it's always served with a dollop of mayonaise too. Laura B.

I like tomato aspic. I just might have to muck about with a pkg of Knox unflavored gelatin and
some V-8 juice that I have on hand. I've got shrimps, celery, and carrots, too. Maybe a little
grated onion, too.

I had something similar and it was topped with some type of seafood sauce and caviar. I enjoyed it
but have not been able to duplicate it. I think the hostess must have used a combination of a tomato
based juice and maybe a clam or fish stock.

Michael

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A classic is strawberry jello with strawberries, pineapple, walnuts and bananas, with a layer of
sour cream.

Gloria, Tell me more about this sour cream layer.....? -Jen

Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright

Melba's Jammin said:

My mom used to make Jell-O salads for holidays -- snooty folks here would cringe at the thought.
Either orange or lime Jell-O with shredded carrots and finely chopped celery folded in. 9x13 pan.
Cut in squares and served with a dollop of mayo on top. Loved it.

Red Jell-O with banana slices folded in.

Lime Jello with grapefruit sections - refreshing on a hot summer's day!

--
Best Greg

JLove98905 said:

Quoted message said:

A classic is strawberry jello with strawberries, pineapple, walnuts and bananas, with a layer of
sour cream.

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Gloria, Tell me more about this sour cream layer.....? -Jen

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Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright

Actually, Steven Wright is wrong, but I don't want to go into why.

As for jello and fruit, my favorite is diced canned peaches in cherry jello. Yummy!