Food on Fridays: Warm Delights

July 2, 2009 By 10 Comments

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome. Recipes are enjoyed, but you can just share a picture of your fridge snapped on the day you cleaned it out, explain where mushrooms come from, or write a rollicking raspberry rhyme.

In other words, the Food on Fridays parameters are not at all narrow. I think of it as a virtual pitch-in where everyone brings something to share; even if the content of one item is unrelated to the rest, we sample it all anyway and have a great time.

When your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button (the big one above or the new smaller option at the bottom) to paste at the top of your post and join us through Mr. Linky.

Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:

Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).

You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.

Food on Fridays Participants

  1. Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker (Chicken Curry and Naan)
  2. My Practically Perfect Life (Fondue Pot-Power Outage)
  3. Hoosier Homemade (Fruit for the Fourth)
  4. Halala Mama (Spinach Rice)
  5. Simply Sugar and Gluten-Free (Homemade Strawberry Jam)
  6. Kitchen Stewardship (Freezer Food Tips)
  7. Meanwhile, back at the ranch… (Easy Home Cookin’)
  8. My Country Haven (Pina Colada Cake)
  9. Newlyweds! (Outback Steakhouse Bushman Bread)
  10. Glimpse of Sonshine (Cherry-Apple Bran Muffins)
  11. Momtrends (Friday Feasts: Grilled Corn)

Food on Fridays with Ann

A big thanks to Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker for her homemade Warm Delights recipe!

If you have cake mix on hand, these are a super-easy, super-tasty, super-fast and super-fun way for friends and family to create personalized desserts.

I had one just last night with chocolate chips and caramel sauce stirred into chocolate cake mix and recreated it especially for this post (see photos below).

Be sure to drop by Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker to thank her for this life-altering dessert experience.

Here are the instructions:

Warm Delights

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup cake mix (any flavor)
  • 1/8 cup water
  • 1-2 tsp filling/mix-in of your choice

    (ex: caramel, hot fudge, strawberry or raspberry jam, coconut, marshmallow, nuts, peanut butter, chocolate chips, etc.)

Instructions:

  1. In microwave-safe cereal-sized bowl, stir water into cake mix.
  2. Add filling(s).
  3. Microwave on high for 1 minute (microwave times and temperatures vary; start with less time on your first attempt).
  4. Warm Delight will be very hot. Let sit at least 3 minutes before digging in.

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In this photo, the 1/8 C water is combined with 1/4 C cake mix.

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Here, the chocolate chips are about to be stirred in. I snapped another photo showing what it looked like when the caramel sauce was added, but it was out of focus. Imagine the swirls of sauce drizzled artfully over the mixture.

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Here it is, straight from the microwave, piping hot.

Forget ice cream sundae parties—now Warm Delight mix-in parties will be all the rage!

More Friday Carnivals

Is Food on Fridays not fun enough for you?  Not in the mood for food? Check out these other great carnivals!

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Mega Memory Month is in Motion

July 1, 2009 By 11 Comments

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Today, July 1st, marks day one of Mega Memory Month!

Participants now have 31 days to pack into their minds whatever it is they’ve selected to memorize: a poem, speech, passage of Scripture, or song lyrics.

The month is in motion, so it’s time to begin.

Refer back to the main Mega Memory Month page for July 2009 for suggestions and directions. There you will find a Mr. Linky to link a blog post announcing your plan. You may also explain in the comments, Twitter, or Facebook what you’re intending to memorize. If you will be tweeting or updating your efforts on other social networking platforms, please leave some kind of link for us to find you.

Don’t forget that Tuesdays will be the day we post Progress Reports. I’ll have a Mr. Linky on those days if you choose to write something up.

Here’s my personal month-long memory plan (along with fascinating explanatory notes):

  1. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” (if you click on the link, press play to hear it read … by Frost himself, I presume). I chose this because I memorized “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” last time for Mega Memory Month (click on the “Stopping by Woods” link to hear me recite it, not Frost). “The Road Not Taken” feels like a nice complement. Plus, as I said yesterday, I mention the poem in my book’s dedication and want to have it inside my head. I know the poem; now I want to know the poem by heart.
  2. Philippians 2:1-11. I selected this passage for two reasons: 1) We started memorizing part of it during VBS, so I have a head start; 2) I love this passage so much that we had it read in both English and French in our wedding ceremony, yet I’ve never memorized it. Now is a good time.
  3. Psalm 121. This short psalm starts with a line that’s familiar to many people in the King James version, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” I’ll be using the NIV, however (“I lift up my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from?”).
  4. And because I want to go mega, I’m going to try to add Psalm 145. Why 145? Well, why not? It’s a great praise psalm with lines like, “Every day I will praise you,” and “Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom,” and “I will meditate on your wonderful works…I will proclaim your great deeds.” It’s longer than 121, though, and my mind isn’t exactly a steel trap. It’s more like a shoebox propped up with a stick to catch bunnies. I’ll try to pull the string on the stick and trap these words under the shoebox. If they squeeze out from under it, I’ll be disappointed but accept my limitation.

So, how about it? Join me for Mega Memory Month and exercise your mind this summer!

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