As I mentioned in the previous post we had my parents over for cocktail hour this past weekend. It was a payoff since they watched the boys for six out of seven days! It wasn’t much trouble though, I love appetizers and was looking forward to test out a new idea.
Yesterday we had my parents over for cocktail hour. It was a great chance to have appetizers and try some new recipes out ( I’ll be posting one very soon). The best part though was a chance to enjoy a nice light dessert. As much as I love to bake it is nice to have a dessert that doesn’t heat up my house or take much time.
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I have never been one to buy the boys pudding cups much at all. There is something about the extra additives, expense and excess packaging that turns me off. But the fact remains that they do like pudding, and frankly I kind of like it now and then too. So I figured why not make it from scratch and create exactly what I want!
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Chicken salad is one of my favorites. I frequently make it with fresh dill and red onions. Then sometime in the winter months I wanted to make a batch of chicken salad but no longer had fresh dill in the garden. I did, however, have a huge supply of thyme. I actually have TONS of thyme year round. And thus this recipe was born!
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It doesn’t get much better than this. It combines all our favorite dessert flavors, chocolate, peanut butter and banana. It’s multiple desserts in one, cookies and pudding. And best of all it is extremely portable making it the perfect picnic dessert.
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The other night we had lettuce wraps, always a favorite in this family! I picked a small head of Napa cabbage from the garden but it wasn’t big enough to make a salad or really much else. Therefore it would be lettuce, or in this case cabbage, wraps for dinner!
If I could I would probably eat pasta salad nearly every day of the summer. But alas, all those wasted carbs and lack of nutrition. Last year I was diagnosed with diverticulitis so for me a high fiber diet is extremely important.
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