Tasty Tuesday!

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
-Kahlil Gibran

Hello! I hope everyone is having a great week. I am a bit late posting today - but better late, than never they say! Enjoy this quick and tasty recipe!


“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Fruit Trifle
serves: 4

Ingredients:

* 1/2 Angel Food Cake (store made), cut into 1-inch pieces (about 30)
* 1/2 cup Brewed espresso coffee, cooled
* 1 cup Vanilla low-fat yogurt
* 2 cups Mixed fresh berries
* 1 Plum, pitted and thinly sliced
* 1/4 cup Wheat Crunch Cereal (ie. grapenuts)

Directions:

1.) Arrange cake pieces on baking sheet & drizzle with coffee, moisten all sides.
2.) In trifle bowl layer cake, yogurt, berries, plum, and cereal, saving a little yogurt and fruit for garnish.
3.) Chill at least 10 minutes prior to serving.


Silly Joke of the Day:

What is a tree's favorite drink?
....Root beer.

Have a great day and remember: Go Ahead & Indulge!

Friday Food Facts!

Hello!

Welcome to another edition of Friday Food Facts. I aim to stimulate not only your brain cells, but your taste buds as well!

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
-Sandra Boynton

The Four Classes of Vegetarians:

1.) True Vegetarians: Does not eat anything from animals, cooked or processed.

2.) Lacto-Vegetarians: Eats dairy products.

3.) Ovo-Vegetarians: The only animal product eaten is eggs.

4.) Pesco-Vegetarians: Do not eat red meat, but will eat fish, chicken, eggs and dairy products

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
-Author Unknown

Coffee Facts:

1.) The world's rarest coffee, Kopi Luwak costs $300 a pound. It is grown in Indonesia.

2.) It takes almost 2,000 coffee cherries to provide enough beans for one pound of
roasted coffee.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.
-Leslie Moak Murray

Rice Facts:

1.) There are thousands, perhaps as many as 40,000, varieties of rice grown on every continent except Antarctica.

2.) In the USA, the average person consumes around twenty-five pounds of rice per year, with about four pounds of that attributed to the rice used for brewing beer.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
-Fernando Pessoa

Candy Facts:

1.) The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after the daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland in 1921.

2.) The Dutch consume the most candy, 65 pounds per person a year; Americans eat about 21 pounds a year.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
-Graham Kerr

Have a great day and until tomorrow:

Go Ahead & Indulge!