Recipes for Real Life
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 4 1 pint vanilla ice cream 1½ c strawberries ¼ c milk ¼ c Cointreau (orange liqueur) In a blender, puree ice cream, strawberries, and orange liqueur until smooth. Divide among 4 glasses. From Real Simple’s ’10 Ideas for: Vanilla Ice Cream,’ this is soooo good. …
Hands-on Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Serves 1 ¼ c pineapple juice ¼ c plain low-fat yogurt ¼ c strawberries ½ frozen banana Blend together and enjoy! This is a really yummy smoothie! I found it in none other than, Real Simple! They did a big Healtth Guide piece on snacks. This came …
Lately I have started making homemade whipped cream. For a while a lot of the recipes I was making called for heavy whipping cream and I always ended up with leftover cream. Then I had recipes that I wanted to have whipped cream with. So I resolved to learn how to make my own whipped …
Hands-on Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Serves 4 3 cups berries or fresh fruit, cut into 1″ pieces 1 (6 oz) container nonfat plain yogurt 1 Tbsp light brown sugar 1 Tbsp orange juice Thread the fruits onto four 6″ bamboo skewers, alternating types of fruit for better presentation. In a bowl, combine …
As 2011 comes to a close, I’ve been looking back on the Recipe Realism posts of 2011. A number of recipes really stand out as exceptional. Hence came my idea for Recipe Realism’s first-annual, year-end ‘Best of . . .’ list. I established criteria to rate the recipes in attempt to help weed out the …