This week we’re looking for your best snack food recipes and ideas!
Before we start let’s congratulate last week’s winners!
NOW ONTO THE PARTY!
Black cherry anything tastes so good but paired with chocolate and cola and its unstoppable! Get ready to take your taste buds to Flavortown for this month’s Behind The Curtain Dessert Challenge! Sheryl from The Lady Behind the Curtain had us partner cherry and cola.
The first thing I thought to make was a slightly different version of Black Forest Cake. Instead of Kirsch or rum I’d use cola. It worked!
I baked the cake a day ahead and soaked the cherries overnight.
The cake cuts much better completely cold.
Brush on the cold syrup and let it soak in. These cherries soaked up a bit of cola from the syrup and also gave back some cherry flavor.
Arrange cherries and cover with whipped cream. Stack on the other half.
Whipped cream as frosting pushes this cake over the top. Delicious!
Remember lunch break? Next to recess it was the best time of my school day!
I didn’t need to think about if there was going to be something to eat or not when the 12:00 bell rang.
I’d grab my lunch bag, dig out my nickel for milk and get in line. We would proceed, single file downstairs to the lunch room aka gym, multi-purpose room and basement. I’d plop my nickel in the milk machine and grab the fallen 1/2 pint and pick a seat.
Half of a spiced ham sandwich, maybe a cookie or piece of fruit. We didn’t have much, but I always had lunch.
Bugsly here, will feed a child by kicking lunch up a notch with a red pepper, cherry and date for a head. Celery slathered with peanut butter or cream cheese and raisins, carrot legs make his body and a few broccoli pieces for a grassy feel.
Who doesn’t love that face?
Not all kids can look forward to their own Bugsly or lunch at all.
If your child were hungry, could they concentrate in school? Children who don’t have enough to eat don’t have the capacity to work towards a proper education.
For some children, @thelunchboxfund provides their only meal of the day.
The Lunchbox Fund has been feeding impoverished and orphaned schoolchildren since 2005. It brings communities together with the help of small local businesses and entrepreneurs, and provides vulnerable students with healthy meals that nourish their bodies and minds.
The Lunchbox Fund from Leigh Wood on Vimeo.
Join me in lending a hand to The Lunchbox Fund. Our goal is to raise $5,000 to provide a daily meal to 100 South African school children for an entire year. Fundraising will take place on Causes from 2/10-2/16.
How much are we asking you to give?
That’s easy. Give what you can. Tally up a week’s worth of lattes (Think about losing all those calories) or skip that dessert or appetizer on your night out to dinner.
Go to Causes.com and donate.I did!
Stay Connected:
The Giving Table
Twitter: @thegivingtable / #feedsouthafrica
Facebook: facebook.com/givingtable
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Causes: Campaign Page
The Lunchbox Fund
Twitter: @thelunchboxfund
Facebook: facebook.com/thelunchboxfund
What can I say about Valentine’s Day? We have a love-hate relationship. Some of my best memories stem from February 14th and some of my worst. Cupid doesn’t have the best aim.
I almost didn’t participate this week because I wasn’t sure how to approach writing my post. Angel on one shoulder, Devil on the other. 😉
I needed to focus on the positive. First, I positively love chocolate. Second, I positively love being part of Sunday Supper!
That made it a little easier. I chose to make a recipe adapted from my first acquired cookbook, called Cooking for Two. I bought the cookbook 40 years ago when it was popular to start a “hope chest” and fill it with things you need when you first get married. Stuff like dishes, cooking tools, pots and pans, towels, et cetera. You get the picture. I still have the real cedar chest, too. Now it is filled with pictures and memories.
Thanks Susan for hosting this week! You can find her most days at The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen where she makes you feel very welcome.
This light dessert has the rich flavor of dark chocolate marshmallow pudding with the texture of a mousse.
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