There, having successfully (I hope) mixed Star Trek and food into a single thread, thereby covering two of Cafe Society’s topics in a single posting… I need a recipe for something green.
Preferably something dessertish but I guess something moderately savory would do.
It’s for a Boy Scout event. People are supposed to bring green foods. I’m assuming this excludes foods that have been allowed to get green-and-fuzzy, and I’d just as soon skip the obvious green jello and pistachio pudding.
It also doesn’t need to be gross-looking, as it isn’t Halloween; this is why I’m avoiding recipes for “boogers on a stick” (no, I’m not kidding).
You can make anything green by putting enough food coloring in it.
I actually did this once, for a dinner I held on April Fool’s day. I thought it wass neat, but I learned that people WILL NOT EAT blue mashed potatoes and green dinner rolls.
Just because of the color. Imagine that
I’d just like to add that, unless your ingredients are largely green plant stuff – lotsa peppers or peas or brussels sprouts or artichokes or asparagus or celery or whatever – then UNLESS you use food coloring, whatever you make probably won’t stay green when you mix it up. Your Chartreuse-flavored Whatever will have its green diluted out.
Key lime pie.
Or, probably of more interest to kids, chocolate cupcakes with green frosting: sourcream frosting + a few drops of food coloring to get a truly arresting shade of kelly green.
Green eggs and ham. Recipe? Make scrambled eggs with ham, add a little food coloring.
Or you could make a Pistachio Cake–uses a white cake mix, a couple boxes of pistachio pudding mix, some cool whip, and a whole cup of oil, if I recall correctly. (If anyone is really interested, I can provide a more complete recipe, I just don’t have it in my brain).
Well, Jell-O is involved, but it’s not just the wobbly stuff, and it’s easy. What you’ll need:
1 package sugar-free lime Jell-O (oddly enough, the “sugar-free” is important)
1 8 ounce package Cool Whip
1 graham cracker pie crust
2/3 cup water
2 cups ice in a medium sized bowl.
Bring the 2/3 cup water to a full boil, then take off heat, add Jell-O, and stir to dissolve. When it has dissolved, pour it into the bowl with the 2 cups of ice cubes and keep stirring; if you leave it alone, it’ll clump up and set around the ice cubes. After the ice has cooled the mixture down to below room temperature, remove the cubes (a slotted spoon works great, the Jell-O slides right through) and add the Cool Whip. Fold to combine. When fully mixed, pour into pie crust and chill to firm.
Ta da! A green pie, and it’s not too sugary for the kids. For some reason, regular Jell-O doesn’t set up right, so be sure to use the sugar-free version.
That looks yummy. I’ll have to make it for the family some time.
That particular recipe might not be safe for me to bring to a Scout event since it contains alcohol (even if in small enough quantities that it wouldn’t bother anyone); I’m not sure what the regulations are for foods made with alcohol (certainly drinking it is strictly forbidden). But it’s inspired me to go looking for one that just uses peppermint extract or something (yeah, I know that usually is alcohol-based but it’s less likely to raise concern).
All the other ideas are great too! I’d have never thought of any of these. Eureka, if you happen to stumble across the detailed instructions for the cake with the pistachio pudding, I’d love to get them; that might be a particularly easy solution (baked as a sheet cake).
CalMeacham, your tale of oddly-colored foods reminds me of one of Typo Knig’s college experiences. His roommate made blueberry pancakes - by adding canned blueberries to pancake batter. The extra blueberry juice caused the pancakes to come out green. Nobody else in their group of rooms would touch them as a result. Typo and his roommate feasted on that huge stack of yummy, if odd-looking, pancakes.
I watched a random episode of FoodTV’s “Dinner: Impossible” this weekend, and the show had 2 chefs facing off at making dinners for teenaged campers. In the dessert category, the green Breath Mint Pie won the competition.
Personally, I loathe mint desserts. But apparently the campers loved it.
BTW there are 2 recipes on the site for the same dish - the one I linked to above says it takes 30 minutes and this one says it takes 3 hrs. Not sure of the difference.
I had this really good stuff in Sweden. It was light green and viscous (maybe ‘mucousy’?). Spoon it into a bowl and pour some cream in. It was some sort of rhubarb thing. Anyway, it was dessert-y, green, somewhat alien, and really delicious.
I think I started a thread on it a couple of years ago to see if anyone knew what I was talking about, but I don’t have time to look for it now.
