Oh no. No more Jell-O

Forgive me for not having posted much in a while.  I am now two dishes behind and may wind up doing  a mega post with both macaroni salad and caramel corn.  One was eaten quickly, and the other was frightening.  I'll let you guess which was which.  The reason for my tardiness in updates has to do with it being the end of the semester, and my classes are keeping me pretty busy.  I'll be done in a couple weeks, so I'll be able to get caught up and even do a couple more recipes before the start of summer term.  And by the way, I got into the nursing program!  So I'll be busy for the foreseeable future, but I'll be back on the road to steady employment.

Anyway, with this sad little update, I thought I'd share this bit of disturbing news in as much as Jell-Os demise would make doing 90% of the salad section recipes impossible.  Oh no!  Horror of horrors!  And by that I mean, what a relief.

Here's the article from the Strib.

Happy cooking.

Meats & Hot Dishes - Macaroni and Cheese

We are into the most frightening depths of the cook book.  This and the next section frequently cause me to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with a paralyzing that some mayonnaise or cream of soup is coming up the stairs to get me.

Don't fall asleep.  Cream of soup's gonna get you.

Previously when I came to the Meats & Hot Dishes section, I made Chow Mein Hot Dish, and it was pretty terrible.  In returning to the section, I didn't want to cherry-pick the best looking or the worst looking recipe on the second page of the section.  It isn't my intention to skew perceptions (too much) of the food of this time period by making things look consistently horrendous, nor by downplaying some of the culinary poor decisions of the age either.  That said, I also don't want food to go to waste.  That last point made me pass on the Tuna Fish Loaf.  2 cups of "tuna fish", with little more than 1/4 of a teaspoon of green pepper or pimiento for seasoning.  Yeah, no thanks.  Instead, I hesitatingly went with the macaroni and cheese.

We make macaroni and cheese regularly here at home, both boxed and home made.  While I am not particularly interested in eating packaged ramen noodles any longer, I don't turn up my nose at boxed mac and cheese.  But given the choice between that and home made mac and cheese, there is no question.  So though, I wasn't inspired with confidence by the recipe, I thought it would be worth a try.

Why did I start blocking out the other recipes on each page?  That was silly.  Too bad I don't have an unaltered scan of this page any longer.  Oh well.