I always used mayo instead of cream cheese, and crushed pineapple. My son never liked anything jello, but I Iove it and with saltine crackers.

Well as long as we are on the subject, my all time favorite is jello with sliced bananas.

Mother used to make it tomato aspic for her card clubs. Could not stand aspic in my youth, but now I love it. Gotta have a slight kick to it.

Never had aspic, but I'd try it.

I used to make the Ribbon Jello, that was so good, but so time consuming.

I made the green jello thing recently, always put mini marshmallows in it too. We love it. Just call it green stuff

Lime jello salad I have made it many times too

I see on ruthie's post that there are many lime salads, but I see the one I use is there in recipe form and calls for cottage cheese and a little horseradish. I think the latter really gives it a good kick.

kathyg - that's the one I like, with pecans rather than walnuts. We call it Fluff.

Schoolhouse, my son and I like a version of that salad. It is so nice and green that it is great to serve on Christmas or at Easter. I use 1 small package lime Jello, 1 cup of sour cream, one small can of crushed pineapple. Mix the Jello with the hot water according to directions. Drain pineapple and use the juice as part of the cold water you add to the Jello. With a whisk, stir in the sour cream. Chill till it is just starting to firm up and stir in the pineapple. Pour into a mold or individual molds and chill thoroughly.

kathyg, my SIL asked for the ribbon jello for Christmas Eve. I'm not going to tell her no ;), but really, it doesn't take all that much time. 5 minutes 10 times - I'll start some layers tomorrow morning.

I would all ways lose track of time and have to heat up my Jello on a couple of layers. Maybe I'll. Make it this summer again!

I have a system. Make a layer, put it in the refrigerator, hand wash the mixing bowl and wooden spoon so will dry and be ready for the next step. Saucepan stays on the stove. :)

Repeat about once an hour. So that translates to make jello, strip the bed and wash the sheets. Make jello, dry the sheets and put them away. Make jello, vacuum the office and living rooms. You get the idea ....

Morz8, thanks for the chuckle!

I've never seen the ribbon Jell-o before googling just now. Morz, thanks for the method description. :)

My auntie used to make a really good Jell-o salad that was very fancy. She won't share the recipe, though... Maybe it's on the 'net.

My mother's auntie made an aspic that was so scary looking the children screamed in horror!

I once had a creamy lemon jello with pineapple, nuts, and ??? that I loved!!! I asked the person who made it whether they used cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, or what, but they wouldn't tell me. :(

I assumed that "ribbon jello" would be the same as "rainbow jello", but it's not. Try rainbow jello sometime! It's layered with part of the jello plain, and part mixed with sour cream. Repeat.

I'm always asked to make the jello for xmas eve dinner... I use orange jello and the juice from the canned fruit, and load it with crushed pineapple, mandarin oranges, and some chopped maraschino cherries.

I was looking for an aspic recipe last week for my luncheon. I came across a recipe for molded gazpacho salad with an avocado dressing. It was in a cookbook I've had for 40 years and most of the recipes in that book are great so I decided to go ahead and make it. Loved it and I'm making it for Christmas day because I don't feel like making a tossed salad.