Picture this: it's 1975, and the most coveted dish at every potluck, church social, and backyard barbecue isn't a complicated casserole or an elegant French sauce. It's a jiggly, colorful mold made ...

The winter holidays are here, which for many means a bounty of joy, gratitude and, at least for a couple decades there in the mid-1900s, a frightening volume of gelatin. A succulent spiral ham. A ...

Lime Jello Salad is a nostalgic dessert or side for all of your summer picnics and backyard BBQs. With only four ingredients, it comes together in a matter of minutes. Jello was all the rage in the ...

Judging by our mail, Lime Gelatin Salad comes to local luncheons and dinner tables a number of ways. Readers, as usual, have responded to the request for that salad with recipes which are similar yet ...

I grew up in an era when gelatin salads were considered, nutritionally speaking, the moral equivalent of vegetable salads, served with pride in place of fresh greens — though my grandmother would ...

It's the season for hustle-bustle, and my mind turns to making sure I carve out time to do things I find especially joyous and comforting. Some people get into the spirit by throwing holiday parties, ...

D.T. of Moline recommends her Spaghetti Sauce to answer a recent request in Curious Cook's column. D.T. writes: ``Earlier this month, S.P. of Geneseo asked for a thick spaghetti sauce recipe. I have ...

Perhaps you grew up with Jell-O cups as part of school lunch. Or maybe you recall (or are trying to forget) those college Jell-O shots. Either way, you’re probably familiar with Jell-O jigglers and ...

Gelatin recipes are more often ridiculed than respected these days. I even have done a fair share of laughing and shaking my head over the suspending of black-eyed peas, prunes and chopped meats in ...

Thanks to everyone who mentioned or wrote to me about “Family Recipe Box.” This is the place for the recipe you always serve to company, the recipe you make for yourself and immediate family. And if ...

While athletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics are going for the gold, their Utahan hosts will be going for the green. That is, green as in lime Jell-O--the nonsponsoring, unofficial food of choice in the ...