One thing I love about Summer besides family bbq’s, pool, beaches, grilling meat, warm weather, cute shoes, etc, is our family trips to Ice Cream parlors. We alternate between Dairy Queen and Cold Stone. Tonight, my husband treated us all with a trip to Cold Stone. Actually, we can all thank my 2 yr old daughter because she said the words “ice cream” and Daddy was just happy to oblige. Anything for the Little Princess.
My ice cream choice for today was the Cheesecake Fantasy. It has cheesecake ice cream, graham cracker pie crust, blueberries and strawberries. And of course I …read more

Remember the frosty strawberry pops I posted last month? Now how about some pina colada pops from Kraft Foods? Sounds good doesn’t it?
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup boiling water
1 pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Pineapple Flavor Gelatin
1/4 cup coconut-flavored rum or coconut milk
ice cubes
1 can (8 oz.) crushed pineapple in juice, drained, liquid reserved
ADD boiling water to gelatin mix in medium bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Stir in rum. Add enough ice to reserved pineapple liquid to measure 3/4 cup. Add to gelatin; stir until slightly thickened. Remove any unmelted ice.
REFRIGERATE 15 min. or until gelatin is thickened. …read more

School is almost over. Like me, you’re probably looking for kid-friendly recipes to make while the kids are out of school. I found something a refreshing kid-friendly snack from Kraft Foods featuring the strawberries which happens to be one of my kids’ favorite fruit.
INGREDIENTS :
1/3 cup KOOL-AID Tropical Punch Flavor Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Mix
4 cups fresh strawberries
BLEND ingredients in blender 2 min. or until smooth; pour into 6 paper or plastic cups. Freeze 1 hour.
INSERT wooden pop stick into center of each cup. Freeze 3 hours or until firm. Remove pops from cups before serving.
It’s perfect …read more

This morning I woke up and remembered my dream, it was so real that I went right out to get the supplies. Oh wait, ya’ll want to know what the dream was about I’m sure. We were making pudding pops and popsicles. Kind of strange?
Seriously the dream was about filling up popsicle trays and making pudding pops. I have no clue what it meant but decided it meant something. To be honest we’ve never made pudding pops but have the popsicles and with school ending this upcoming week I needed something for them to do and wouldn’t mind something cool …read more