Tropical Influenced Fruit Salad (major hit with no added sugar!)

Maybe I shouldn’t even tell you about this. When I served this, I saw my friends taking seconds and THIRDS. No lie!
The major work of this consists of the chopping, chopping, chopping. And removing the pith and peel from the oranges takes quite a while. Or maybe I’m just slow with the motor skills. And [...]

My Grandma’s Cranberry Salad – holiday recipe

People love this salad. It’s my third grandma’s. Red-headed woman from Nebraska. Force of nature. And cook extraordinaire. Here’s my rendition.
My Third Grandma’s Cranberry Salad

1 bag of fresh cranberries;
1 cup of chopped walnuts;
3 organic navel oranges, sectioned and chopped broadly after removing pith and skin – save the skin for zest*;
3 Granny Smith or other [...]

So Delicious: yes, it is. Chocolate Obsession? Yes, indeed.

If you don’t know already, Turtle Mountain makes a dairy-free frozen dessert called So Delicious Chocolate Obsession. See, how clever – they left off the “y” in soy. Not only laced with ribbons of chocolate sauce, inexplicably delicious crunchy flakes of chocolate torment you with utter irresistibility. Oh, buy it. From what I can tell, [...]

instant fruit salad

Well, I was packing lunch for work and I thought it might be nice to have something sweet along with it. Got canned pineapple on sale. Had some ripe-ish bananas too. And of course, soy milk. I got the soy milk from Costco – it’s organic(!), of the Kirkland (Costco) brand itself. Very cheap – [...]

mini-post – cinnamon + ice cream = joy!

There are times you are stuck with too much vanilla ice cream. I have a solution for that: cinnamon powder. Add copious amounts of it to your vanilla immediately before serving. The pretty speckles of cinnamon will add a grainy look to the ice cream, in addition to a perfect complement to the vanilla.