Cranberry Jello
"This is my wife's recipe and is delicious either as a salad or as a light dessert. Prep time does not include chilling time."
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 bag cranberries, rinsed and chopped or ground
- 1 orange, zest of, finely chopped,or ground with cranberries
- 1 (3 ounce) box raspberry Jell-O gelatin
- 1 (3 ounce) box cranberry Jell-O gelatin
- 2 cups very hot water
- 2 cups ginger ale
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple tidbits, drained
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, toasted if desired
directions
- Pour hot water over Jello, and stir until dissolved.
- Add ginger ale.
- Stir in all remaining ingredients.
- Chill until it starts to jell, and stir to combine; repeat several times until thoroughly set.
- Serve as a salad on a crisp lettuce leaf or as a dessert, with whipped topping or drained low-fat vanilla yogurt.
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Reviews
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Toby, Please Thank your wife for this recipe...My family LOVED it! I'm not a big fan of cranberries, but this tasted like Christmas, and will be our preferred salad forevermore. I made a couple of minor changes by using all raspberry jello, and adding the zest of 2 oranges for a more citrus flavor. We had a family member missing her two front teeth, so I whizzed everything together in the food processor before chilling. Simply Divine and a perfect compliment to our Holiday Ham. Thanks!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Toby Jermain
Houston, TX
I WAS retired oilfield trash since 1999, who has lived in Houston TX for the last 25 years, though I'm originally from California. I'm Texan by choice, not by chance! I am now working in Algeria 6 months a year, so I guess that gives new meaning to the term SEMI-retired. I grew up in restaurants and worked in them for 13 years while getting through high school and college, working as everything from dishwasher to chef, including just about everything in between. At odd intervals I also waited tables and tended bar, which gave me lots of incentive to stay in school and get my engineering degree.
During the 33 years since, I have only cooked for pleasure, and it HAS given me a great deal of pleasure. It's been my passion. I love to cook, actually more than I love to eat. I read cookbooks like most people read novels.
My wife and I both enjoy cooking, though she isn't quite as adventurous as I am. I keep pushing her in that direction, and she's slowly getting there.
We rarely go out to eat, because there are very few restaurants that can serve food as good as we can make at home. When we do go out, it's normally because we are having an emergency junk-food attack.
My pet food peeves are (I won't get into other areas): are people who post recipes that they have obviously NEVER fixed; obvious because the recipe can't be made because of bad instructions, or that are obvious because it tastes horrible. I also detest people who don't indicate that a recipe is untried, even when it is a good recipe. Caveat emptor!
