Smoothies

Smoothies have been our snack of choice this week, and Naomi loves them! (She is enjoying one in the picture.) My Moosewood cookbook actually calls them "fruit shakes". Yum.

Here's a basic recipe, and then I plan I experimenting - I have some frozen mango in the freezer that I am dying to try.

Smoothies

1 cup yoghurt (plain, vanilla, lowfat, whole, whatever. I use lowfat vanilla)

1/2 cup juice (I used the pomegranite-blueberry in the fridge)

1 banana, cut into chunks

1 T. honey (optional)

frozen berries/fruit (optional)

Throw it all in the blender!

Chocolate Enrobed Strawberries

These are the best chocolate covered strawberries I've ever had. John and I enjoyed these for dessert in Estes Park, Colorado while celebrating our 10 year anniversary over dinner. They might not seem that empressive to all you gluten-eaters out there, but they really hit the spot for my sweet tooth. Much better than all of those other glutenated dessert options on the menu, I'm sure! The chocolate was still warm...yummy!

Festive Cake

Here's my attempt at a flag cake for the 4th of July. I saw it in a magazine and it looked pretty easy, plus it was gluten free. It's an ice cream cake layered with chocolate ice cream, assorted fruits (I did kiwi and peaches), vanilla ice cream, and then cool whip with the blueberry and strawberry stars and stripes. It does have 50 "stars" (blueberries), but I couldn't fit the seven stripes on it, so there are four strawberry stripes...oh well! It turned out to be a very good and refreshing cake for a hot 4th of July!