[silly, food, previous post]

[wispfox]

The responses I got to my odd green pie are entertaining me.

Multiple things to say, since some people appear confused:

a) I already had the crust, and did not make it (some of the comments don't make sense to me, and I suspect that is why). I only made the jello. (yes, when I bought the crust and jello years ago, I did actually look for jello pudding. Found none, and was curious about the combination of the regular jello and the crust. It's only taken me something like 3 years to get around to actually satisfying my curiosity about what it would be like)

b) I avoid cooking, mostly, because it hurts my head and takes amazing amounts of effort (I do ever cook; just rarely, due to the energy required). Baking is much easier on me. That said, I'm not sure that I've ever baked anything from scratch or have the ingredients for that. And not that either cooking or baking was involved for what I did. :)

c) It was nearly my bedtime when I made it, so there was not _time_ to make anything more involved, even had I the ingredients or initiative. Jello is really quick, and really easy. Also, I did expect interesting results from putting something fully liquid onto a graham cracker crust, I was just not completely sure what the final result would be.

d) I'm not intending to have anyone else taste it (although if anyone wants to, I won't stop them). It helps satisfy my random cravings for sweet things, without me going out and buying something sweet. That was the point, along with satisfying my curiosity. :)

e) It takes like lime jello and slightly damp graham cracker crust (since the liquid from the jello was absorbed by the crust). It's neither amazing nor bad.

f) I now have half a mind to do this again, with gummy or similar fish (glow in the dark would be better, but I don't know if they exist), and some sort of frog. Of course, with my luck, it'd look far less interesting. :)

Comments

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

f) I now have half a mind to do this again, with gummy or similar fish (glow in the dark would be better, but I don't know if they exist), and some sort of frog. Of course, with my luck, it'd look far less interesting. :)

A few years ago, when I was a pseudoparent of a small boy, I once took some berries, mashed them up, added agar agar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar) (which one can get at Whole foods), heated it over the stove for a few minutes, and poured it into a pan to make a flat piece of squishy stuff that acts and tastes a lot like jello. I then cut a fish-shaped piece out of the agar jello and put it in another pan, then poured clear agar jellow over that. With the fogginess of the almost-clear solution, plus some bleeding from the hot clear stuff being poured over the set colored stuff, it looked like a spooky fish in slightly scummy water -- a bonus, I think.

So, your could my point is that you could cut a frog and a fish out of a piece of colored jello to get a similar effect.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

That sounds like so much fun!