A Yummy Treat and a Bit of a Rant

So I made homemade fudge-posicles. Delicious! Here's the recipe:

3/4 cups sugar
3 tbsps flour
3 tbsps cocoa powder
4 cups milk

Mix first three ingredients in Saucepan. Slowly add milk, stirring until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat and boil for two minutes. Cool slightly. Pour into molds. Makes 10 3oz Popsicles.

I halved the recipe except did 2tbsps cocoa. I used whole wheat flour because I figured it wouldn't make a difference. And I used whole milk because apparently that makes them creamier and less "icy." I made 8 Popsicles, so I guess my molds are small.

... So this recipe had 4 ingredients, and tastes delicious, took 5 minutes to make and half a day to freeze. Go to www.Popsicle.com to see that fudgsicles have 17 ingredients! Don't get me wrong, I love fudgsicles and would never turn one down, but maybe as consumers we need to be more knowledgable about what is in our food. Maybe someday we will realize that we don't need all this extra stuff in our food to make it taste good. I mean, why can't frozen chocolate milk just be frozen chocolate milk? Because that is essentially what a fudge-Popsicle is.

Why So BLUE?

Crayola coloured bubbles, that's why. Fun to play with... messy to clean up. And this was after I washed his face which was blue AND orange.

Saying Grace

We said this grace throughout Easter:

Lord Jesus,
Fill our heads with hope,
Fill our bellies with food,
And fill our hearts with joy.
Alleluia. Amen.

Just when the 50 days of Easter ended Daniel figured out the actions. It is so awesome to SEE him praying that we have kept saying this grace for most meals. Though he does tend to get stuck on "Heads with hope."

Time to pray...

... fill our heads with hope...

...our bellies with food...

... and our heads with hope!

Oh, and Daniel does say the words: "Alleluia. Amen!"

From A Box

So I tried making some rose sauce for tortellini. Tomatoes, parmesan, cream, even bacon. Delicious! But would the boys eat it? No. But they will scarf two plates each of Loney's Rose Sauce. It's powder you mix with milk and margarine. So much for homemade is better.