My husband was told by his doctor in Nov 2021 that he was overweight & pre-diabetic. My husband & I started WFPB eating 14 weeks ago and let me tell you, it has been a wonderful change for both of us, especially for my husband. Only 14 Weeks In and Husband’s A1C is Down From 6.1 to 5.9 and PSA Level Fell From 5.93 to 2.57! Here’s how you make it, vegan! Make the Raspberry Applesauce Gel Raspberry Applesauce Salad was the first thing I tried when experimenting with agar agar…I missed it that much! There was something just magical about this salad in that it transformed miniature marshmallows into marshmallow fluff overnight in the refrigerator and made a tangy, sweet, fluffy top to raspberry-applesauce Jell-o! It firms up once dissolved and boiled in liquid boiling is key in order for agar agar to activate and gel. You can find agar agar powder and flakes at Asian markets, health food stores, and online at Amazon. And yes, it is the gel in the bottom of a petri dish. You’ll often see jellied desserts with fruit called anmitsu in Asian restaurants and grocery stores made from agar agar. So imagine my delight and utter joy when I learned about agar agar! Agar agar is a substance from red algae popular in Asia for making jellied dishes they’ve been using it over the last couple centuries.
To make matters worse, I even learned that the marshmallows I loved contained gelatin and were no longer something I would eat. I actually didn’t know what to eat when I got sick after first becoming vegan without being able to eat gelatin! And then there was the loss of my favorite Jell-o salad, Raspberry Applesauce Salad topped with sour cream and marshmallows.
We had it when we were sick, even drinking what we called Jell-o Water, liquid gelatin solution before it set up, when we had the flu. Mom made it as snacks for after school in little single-serve Tupperware dishes and it was super fun as finger Jell-o. Losing gelatin was something I mourned, along with cheese. I only learned after I became vegan and was shocked that it was made from animals! I’m not so sure I would have been such a fan of Jell-o as a kid if I’d known that it really was made out of. Jell-o powder didn’t come about until 1895 when a cough-syrup manufacturer purchased a gelatin-powder patent from a industrial product inventor (he was interested in making glue powder) and turned it into the “just-add-water” dessert we are all familiar with. It was first used as glue, but in the 1700s people started using it to make desserts.
#Gelatin salad skin#
Gelatin is made by boiling animal hooves, cartilage, and skin to extract the sticky protein collagen. But I had no idea what gelatin was, other than some magical powder that came in a box you mixed with boiling water to have it set-up into a wiggling, jiggling, translucent jelly.
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