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Tasty Tuesdays: Fourth of July Ribbon Jello

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My mom used to make this ribbon jello for the Fourth of July, but it really can be made at any time!

Fourth of July Ribbon Jello -- so pretty and perfect as a side dish or as a dessert.

The jello in the bowl pictured below that has the green jello layer I made for Christmas one year.

Ribbon Jello that can be made with a variety of colors and fruit added to the jello layers -- so pretty and perfect as a side dish or as a dessert.

What’s so nice about Ribbon Jello is how adaptable it is.

Not only can you change up the colors, you can easily make the recipe as big as you want it, and you can add different kinds of fruit to the jello. You can see that I added blueberries and strawberries to both jellos.

The basic recipe is below. For the Ribbon Jello that was in the bowl, I halved the ingredients that make the white layer, and I did only 3 jello colors: blue, green, and red. For the Fourth of July Ribbon Jello, I did 2 boxes of blue jello and 2 boxes of red jello along with a full recipe of the white layer. I put that in a 13″ x 9″ glass dish.

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Fourth of July Ribbon Jello that is easy to customize for any special occasion!
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Ribbon Jello
Prep Time
1 d
 

This ribbon jello recipe is easily adaptable for any special occasion.

Course: Dessert, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: jello
Servings: 12
Ingredients
  • 2 c. milk
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1/2 c. water
  • 2 envelopes Knox gelatin (unflavored)
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 c. sour cream
  • 1 pkg. lime jello 3 oz.
  • 1 pkg. orange jello 3 oz.
  • 1 pkg. cherry jello 3 oz.
  • 1 pkg. lemon jello 3 oz.
  • 3/4 c. boiling hot water for each box of jello
  • 3/4 c. cold water for each box of jello
Instructions
For the white layers:

  1. Put 1/2 cup water in small dish.

  2. Sprinkle 2 envelopes of unflavored gelatin on water to soften.

  3. Bring milk to a boil take off heat and dissolve sugar in milk.

  4. Add softened gelatin (stir until dissolved.)

  5. Add vanilla and sour cream. Stir until it is cool, but do not put it in the refrigerator.

Making the Jello Layers:

  1. Dissolve each package of gelatin in hot water. Then add cold water. Set aside to cool.

  2. When lime Jello is cool (or your first layer of jello), pour it in a desired pan or dish. Chill in refrigerator until firm (about 25 minutes).

  3. Pour 1 1/2 cups sour cream mixture over jello layer. Chill in refrigerator until firm.

  4. Continue alternating Jello and sour cream mixture, ending with a jello layer on top.

Wouldn’t a rainbow ribbon jello be pretty for some party? Try it out!

Fourth of July Ribbon Jello -- so pretty and perfect as a side dish or as a dessert.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Favorite Recipes from May’s Parties

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It’s already June! Our kids are out of school as we start in the middle of August, and we are trying to settle into a new routine.

Since it is the first week in a new month, I will share all the favorite recipes linked up to last month’s Tasty Tuesday’s parties.

Favorite recipes linked up to May's Tasty Tuesday's linky parties.

Here were the favorite pins from May 7th’s party:

Easy Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe from Treat and Trick received the most views from May 14th’s party.

There were 2 favorite pins from May 21st’s party:

Here are the 2 favorite recipe from last week’s party:

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Tasty Tuesdays: No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies + Giveaway

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Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive is an instructional book sharing 8 essential strategies to eating healthy plus sharing recipes that actually implement those strategies.

I was given a copy of this book for my honest review, and after reading word for word about half of the book, I can honestly say that if I did what this book teaches, I think it would be life-changing for me.

I picked it up with the idea of just scanning over it to share with you what was in it and once I got started reading, I couldn’t put it down.

Why did I feel this way?

I don’t eat healthy (for the most part), and I partly don’t eat healthy because I don’t like many healthy foods. So I was immediately intrigued with the idea of retraining my tastebuds. Can it be done? I am a skeptic, but I want to give it a try!

I also loved it when Mareya Ibrahim said in her introduction, “No one should do anything that starts with ‘die’.”

This is not a diet book. This is a lifestyle book with a clear way to go about eating healthy that doesn’t have you counting points or calories or buying into a pyramid program to drink their drinks.

I am not knocking those aids, necessarily. I just don’t want to be tied to a program. I want to be healthy because what I put into my body is what God intended for me to put into my body.

I want to give this book a try and do what Mareya Ibrahim lays out in the 8 essential strategies to eating healthy, but I won’t be able to start until the middle of July — and I think I will be on my own in my family, although I might be able to get my husband to do it with me. With my rotator shoulder surgery, I can’t do the meal prep I would have to do to get this started and I can’t drive to get the additional groceries I need. But when I do it, I’ll let you know if I stuck to it.

Even if you choose to not do all of these 8 strategies, you would still like to get a copy of this book for the excellent recipes.

Mareya Ibrahim, nutritionist, award-winning inventor, and the signature chef and meal plan designer for the bestselling diet book The Daniel Plan, included eighty “forking delicious” recipes in her cookbook. For not being the healthiest eater, I thought I would like many of these recipes — without even having retrained my taste buds. Here are a few of them:

  • Zucchini Noodles with Romesco Sauce
  • Low-Sodium Umami Bone Broth
  • You Glow Smoothie
  • No-Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive Cookbook — 8 essential strategies to a eating healthy

  • Strategy 1: Retrain your taste buds. the book includes an eight-day taste bud reconditioning meal plan.
  • Strategy 2: Stocking your kitchen. Not only does the book include a “steer-clear list” but it also includes a checklist called “your essential refrigerator” as well as instruction on how to organize your refrigerator.
  • Strategy 3: Get up on Greens — The recipes in this section included those all-important green, and they looked yummy!
  • Strategy 4: The Fast Break — Directions on how to do intermittent fasting. It is very doable using the plan showed in this book. You wouldn’t even feel like you were fasting!
  • Strategy 5: Go Gluten Free Super Grains — There is a short list you can use to know which grains are good to eat.
  • Strategy 6: Fat Fillers — There is good fat! Do you know the difference between good and bad fats?
  • Strategy 7: Be Real Dense — nutritionally dense foods that feed you to the core.
  • Strategy 8: The 90/10 Rule –about 3 of your meals per week can be what you want them to be. See how to decide what that 10% can be.
Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive Cookbook and 8 essential strategies to a eating healthy

Here is one recipe from Eat Like You Give a Fork!

Healthy No Bake Oatmeal Cookies

I will definitely give these No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies a try!

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Healthy No Bake Oatmeal Cookies
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No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Healthy no-bake cookies!

Course: Dessert
Servings: 12
Author: Mareya Ibrahim
Ingredients
  • 1/2 c canned unsweetened full fat coconut milk
  • 1/2 c + 2 tbsp. natural creamy peanut butter (or sunflower seed butter, for a nut-free option), at room temperature
  • 2 tbsp. raw coconut oil
  • 2 tsp. granulated stevia or monkfruit sweetener
  • 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp. Himalayan pink salt
  • 3 c. quick-cooking oats
  • 1/2 c. no-sugar-added dark chocolate chips
Instructions

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, wax paper, or a silicone mat.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, ½ cup of the peanut butter, and ½ cup water until smooth. Add the coconut oil, stevia, vanilla, and salt and mix until smooth.

  3. Using a spatula, fold in the oats, making sure all the oats are well soaked. Let sit for about 10 minutes, until the mixture becomes firm. Fold in the chocolate chips and mix with a spatula to evenly distribute them.

  4. Using an ice cream scoop, portion cookies onto the prepared baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches apart, and press down lightly to flatten them.

  5. In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining 2 tablespoons peanut butter and ½ teaspoon water. Drizzle the peanut butter over the tops of the cookies and let set at room temperature, about 15 minutes. Store wrapped in parchment paper to keep them fresh up to a week





Recipe Notes

From EAT LIKE YOU GIVE A FORK: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive.  Copyright © 2019 by Mareya Ibrahim and reprinted with permission from St. Martin’s Griffin.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Slow Cooker Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken

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I don’t make slow cooker meals as much as I probably should, but this Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken is one that I have made a few times over the last 10 years.

This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!

This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!It’s easy to throw together, especially if you already have some cooked chicken. I also like this recipe as it is different than many of my other beef or potato slow cooker recipes.

Here’s how you make Slow Cooker Ham ‘n Swiss Chicken:

Make the following mixture:

  • Beat 2 eggs and 11/2 c. milk.
  • Add 1/2 c. melted butter, 1/2 c. celery, and 1 tsp. onion.
  • Stir in cubed bread (8 slices bread, cubed).

Place half of the mixture in a greased slow cooker.

Top with 6 thin slices of rolled up deli ham, 1 cup (4  oz.) shredded Swiss cheese, and 1 1/4 c. cubed cooked chicken. 

Make the following mixture:

  • Combine 1 can (103/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted with
  • 1/2 c. milk

Pour half of the soup mixture over the ham, cheese, and chicken layers.

Repeat layers once.  Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until thermometer inserted into bread mixture reads 160°.  Yield:  6 servings.

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This slow cooker recipe for Ham 'n Swiss Chicken is easy to make and will feed a large family!
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Slow Cooker Ham 'n Swiss Chicken
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
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Crockpot recipe that includes bread, ham, Swiss cheese, and chicken.

Course: Main
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 c. milk divided
  • 1/2 c. melted butter or margarine
  • 1/2 c. chopped celery optional
  • 1 tsp. finely chopped onion
  • 8 slices bread cubed
  • 12 slices deli ham thinly sliced, rolled-up
  • 2 c. shredded Swiss cheese (8 oz.)
  • 2 1/2 c. cubed cooked chicken
  • 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted (10 3/4 oz.)
Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and 11/2 c. milk. 

  2. Add butter, celery, and onion. 

  3. Stir in bread cubes. 

  4. Place half of the mixture in a greased slow cooker; top with half of the rolled up ham, cheese, and chicken. 

  5. Combine soup and remaining milk; pour half over the chicken. 

  6. Repeat layers once. 

  7. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until thermometer inserted into bread mixture reads 160°.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Multicooker Perfection

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Tomorrow is a big day for me — I’m going in for a rotator cuff tendon surgery. I was rear-ended back in January, and I have a full thickness tear that needs some repair. I have always been healthy, so this came as a surprise and obviously not something I would have planned. I am thankful that I do not have a debilitating illness that I have to live with all the time and that my kids are old enough to help. I am also thankful for my church family who wants to do all they can to help. However, it will still be an adjustment to be not able to use one arm.

Just this week, I received a cookbook called Multicooker Perfection from Zavor to review!

This cookbook has 75 recipes that can be done in your multicooker. Each recipe has a pressure cooking time and a slow cooker time!

All my reviews are honest and I receive no monetary compensation for this review.

What perfect timing! I jumped on the multicooker bandwagon a year ago, but I haven’t used mine often. With this cookbook, I will use it more — and probably often in the next few weeks, because it has two recipe sections that start with the word, “simple” or “easy.” That is what I will need — simple recipes. There is even a Macaroni and Cheese Recipe. My kids will be happy about that!

Easy or simple recipes that can be done in your multicooker!

Next year, I will have an increased load at school, so I want to sample some of these recipes this summer so that I will know which ones will work for easy dinners.

I did not have time to make any recipes as I had to finish all the grading for this school year and make sure I am ready for my surgery tomorrow, but here are some more of the sections included in this cookbook:

Some of the recipes included in Multicooker Perfection

Since I have not made used my multicooker that much, I am very glad for the Multicooker 101 section. I need to understand how to use my multicooker better! Here you can see just a couple of the pages that are in that section:

How to use a multicooker

The recipe I am probably most excited to try is Vietnamese Beef Pho. My mother-in-law is Vietnamese and loves Pho, so I want to make it and let her taste it to see how authentic the recipe is.

Vietnamese Beef Pho recipe in multicooker!

What I find extremely interesting about this cookbook is that all 75 recipes include pressure cooking times AND slow cooking times. In a hurry? No problem! Need the recipe to be cooked over several hours while you are gone? No problem!!

Do you want to try out this cookbook? Enter to win it below!

Enter to win this giveaway of the cookbook Multicooker Perfection. Giveaway ends 5/31/19.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Favorite Recipes from April’s Tasty Tuesday’s LInky Parties

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Today I get to share all of your favorite posts from last weeks parties!

There were five weeks last month and a lot of clicks, so there were a lot of favorites! Look at all these yummy posts!

Favorite Recipes linked up to April's Tasty Tuesday's linky parties.

Favorite Recipes from April 2:

Favorite Recipes from April 9:

Favorite Recipes from April 16:

Favorite Recipes from April 23:

Favorite Recipes from April 30:

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Tasty Tuesdays: 20 Recipes Kids Should Know Cookbook Giveaway

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I received  from Media Masters Publicity a new book that will be perfect for my kids called 20 Recipes Kids Should Know by Esme Washburn and photographer Calista Washburn. I was able to give a review of the book that is my own honest opinion without any other compensation.

This is a great first cookbook for children! But even better than being a cookbook for children, it is written and photographed by a pair of young sisters!

Kids know what kids like to eat, so most of these recipes will be ones your kids will want to try. I also love to show my kids that here are other kids just like them who are finding a way to be young entrepreneurs. They are going after a dream and getting it done.

20 Recipes Kids Should Know Cookbook GiveawayThe book has wonderful directions, and pictures, and I like that they only started with 20 recipes so as not to overwhelm children.

The  twenty classic recipes are fun, healthy, adaptable, and easy to prepare. It has your classic banana bread and the kid-friendly grilled cheese along with everyone loves breaded chicken and apple pie. Each recipe is written in a clear, style that young cooks of every level will be able to follow. By teaching kids basic recipes that can be adapted in endless ways, this book is the perfect starting point to getting children interested in helping in the kitchen.

Getting my 3 youngest involved in the kitchen is something I need to work at, and I think this book will be exactly what I need. I’m going to aim at having them prepare some of these recipes with me helping — at the beginning! Then the goal is to make them independent chefs in the kitchen.20 Recipes Kids Should Know Cookbook Giveaway

20 Recipes Kids Should Know Cookbook GiveawayI am having rotator cuff surgery in 2 weeks, so I am glad I have this book to help them as they try to take over kitchen duties for a couple of weeks. Their older sister is a little more proficient in the kitchen, and she can help them too.

Even though there are only 20 recipes, you can see how there is plenty of variety in the recipes chosen to be in the book.

 

 

 

I am able to offer one of these books to my readers as a giveaway.

20 Recipes Kids Should Know Cookbook Giveaway; Enter by 5/15/19

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Tasty Tuesdays: Berry Lemonade Punch

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We had our Easter party at school last week, and the punch that a mom made was delicious! So I got her recipe for Berry Lemonade Punch, and made it for our Easter lunch at home on Sunday. We had 7 adults beside our family and those who asked for the punch loved it!

Recipe for Berry Lemonade Punch

I wasn’t able to grab great pictures of the punch when it was first made as I was entertaining, but the ice mold was first put into the bowl, it was beautiful. It was made  out of blended crushed pineapple and a tiny bit of the lemonade mixture, and then I put blended strawberries into the mixture,so the pop of pinkish-red and yellow was so pretty. What you see in the pictures is how the sherbet and the melted ice ring has turned the punch pink, which is great for a spring punch!

Here is how you make Berry Lemonade Punch:

  • How to make the frozen molds for Berry Lemonade PunchMake the lemonade mixture. I made enough for 2 punch bowls, but for one punch bowl, you would:
    • Mix 2 small packets of lemonade Kool-Aid with 1½ cups of sugar. Put both in a 1 gallon jug and fill only half full with water. Shake it until sugar the dissolves and refrigerated overnight.
  • Make your ice mold. I have jello molds I used, but you could also use a Bundt pan. My mixture was enough for 2 molds.
    • Blend up one can of crushed pineapple including it’s juice. Pour in a just a tiny bit of the lemonade mixture and mix well so that the blended pineapple is not so thick. Pour this mixture into your molds. (I divided it into 2 jello molds.
    • Blend up some strawberries. Mine were frozen, and I just poured about a cup and a half into my blender, but I did not measure. I also had to add some lemonade to the strawberries so that they would blend up. I don’t have a super fancy blender.
    • Spoon strawberries on top of pineapple mixture and slightly stir or swirl through the pineapple mixture. Freeze overnight.
    • If you only wanted to do one punch bowl, you could do this step another way:
      • Blend 1/2 can of crushed pineapple with all of it’s juice.
      • Freeze pineapple in ice cube trays.
      • Place frozen pineapple mixture and sliced frozen strawberries in the punch bowl the next day to help keep the punch cold.
    • Ginger ale — about ¾ of the 2 liter will be used for one punch bowl
    • 1 liter of club soda
    • Raspberry sherbet  — will be just spooned on top as desired

There was a little bit of prep work to do for this punch the night before, but making the punch on Sunday was super easy.

I poured the lemonade mixture into the punch bowl. Then I added the frozen mold mixture. Next I added in about 2/3 of the ginger ale and almost the entire liter of the club soda. The last thing I added was some scoops of the raspberry sherbet, and it was made! If you add more ginger ale or more club soda, it really doesn’t matter. The measurements don’t have to be exact. It will turn out!

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Tasty Tuesdays: Easter Fixin’s

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Normally, I try to add a new recipe every week, but sometimes I get too busy with life. Last night I decided to update my menu pages as I hadn’t added new recipes for months! It’s much easier for me to add recipes to my menu now that I use the FooGallery Plugin. I shared a few months ago how to use the FooGallery Plugin and why I switched to using the FooGallery Plugin compared to the what I used to do for my menu pages.

Since I have the FooGallery Plugin, It is easy for to share some of my favorite Easter recipes along with a picture.

I could use my Inlinkz subscription to do a gallery of pictures as well, but the FooGallery Plugin lets me search within my media for the picture so it’s one less step.

Here are some of the recipes that I am looking at as possible candidates for Easter dinner:

Favorite Recipes for Easter

  • I have a friend that is coming who will make the bread, but often in the past, I have made Angel Biscuits. They are always a favorite.
  • As side dishes, I may make Homemade Macaroni and Cheese. Sometimes I have made a Hashbrown Casserole, and sometimes I have made Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes.
  • For vegetables, I sometimes just make do some fresh green beans or a green bean casserole. Our Broccoli Casserole is always a good choice as well.
  • I am going to ask another friend to bring a jello salad, but a seven layer salad also always goes well with our Easter meal.
  • Then there are a million choices for dessert. I have someone bring one dessert, so I will either make a couple of the pies below as other choices or I will make a couple of the bar recipes that I show below. Something lemony is always great for Easter! If  I was the only one making dessert, I might go with the Chocolate Eclair Cake which is a personal favorite. Carrot Cake is an Easter favorite as well.
  • Our main meat will be ham, which is super easy to make!

If you do more of a brunch option, Neilson Massey sent me an email with a couple of recipes that look delicious. I also like my own Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake.

What do you prepare for Easter? I pray you have a great day with family and friends celebrating Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf!

 

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