With Memorial Day here, and the 4th of July not too far away either, I thought I would share 3 very easy red, white & blue treats, that are perfect ideas for your all-American weekend celebrations and gatherings.

If you love chocolate and bananas, you just might love this hot sweet treat, in a cup:  Banana Cream Cocoa.

I do love chocolate. Don’t all women?  I also love bananas. But somewhere along the way, I saw a pattern, and realized eating raw bananas is not a good idea for me. My stomach goes to hell and back, trying to digest it.  Lots of pain involved. (Does anyone else have this issue?).  But, I can eat bananas cooked in all other forms:  banana bread, banana nut crunch, banana pancakes, Banana Hannah, (just kidding.  Wasn’t me. Swear.)  And once upon a time, I loved eating chocolate covered bananas. Oh how I loved those. … Continue reading

For those who have been visiting our blog long enough, you’d probably know that we got very crafty in 2008, for Christmas gifts for loved ones.  But unfortunately, this year we were low on both time and money, to really craft as much as we would have needed to for gifts.  Still, we prefer to show our love to our loved ones at Christmas, with more hand-made sort of gifts, if we can.  So we had the idea of sending some baked goods, and ready-to-go jars.   It would be simple, inexpensive, yet appreciated we were sure.  Who doesn’t love food…right?

So some jars we made up with most of the ingredients to make oatmeal… Continue reading

You may or may not have heard of Waldorf Salad.  My mother made it all of the time growing up, and I always thought it was a rather odd concoction. But I loved it! So did my brothers and sister, as much as I recall. And now, my kids love it too.  Big hit. So simple.  No measuring really needed.

Participating ingredients:  apples, walnuts, raisins, mayonaisse.

How much you use of any of it, is a preference, and all in consideration of how much you are making, and so how many apples you use.  We used 4 apples and fed 7+ (Some had seconds.)