My husband recently got a smoker and he is making the best, most delicious smoked chicken wings and pork ribs (as pictured below). I am in “hog” heaven. tee hee. smoked ribs!
Smoked Ribs on Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday – Smoked Ribs
July 11, 2012 By
I Scream for Ice Cream
July 10, 2012 By
Ice Cream
I can not resist a good ice cream. No matter how hard I try to eat healthy and “real” food, I always have room for ice cream. My husband is the same way. It is truly our downfall. We have different tastes in ice cream as he likes flavors like banana and butter pecan and I’m more of a cookie dough and mint chocolate chip girl, but we both fell in love with the MAGNUM Double Caramel premium ice cream bars. They are made with scrumptious vanilla ice cream covered in chocolatey coating, caramel and Belgian milk chocolate. They were so good that I only got one from the box! The caramel is soft and rich and made the bar really a treat for adults, although I’m sure kids would love it too(they never got one!). MAGNUM also has Double Chocolate, Classic, Almond, White, Mochaccino, Mint and Dark. I don’t think I could choose which to try next, maybe Dark, no maybe White, argh I don’t know they all look so good. Mint, yeah, Mint!
My husband also has a weakness for Klondike bars. He has had this weakness for as long as I can remember. His favorite has to be the Heath bar, which he promptly bought without giving me a choice. That is OK, I like Heath too. But I think I may have chosen the Caramel Pretzel if given the chance. I love the sweet and salty combination. Klondike also has Rocky Road, Neapolitan (a favorite of the kids), Double Chocolate, Oreo, Reese’s, Dark Chocolate, Krunch, Mint Chocolate Chip and of course Original.
And what blog post about ice cream could be complete without discussing Breyers. Breyers was our ice cream of choice in my home growing up. My father loved their peach during the summer and butter pecan the rest of the year. My mother would make me ice cream sandwiches using their chocolate between two homemade waffles. This was the quintessential summer dessert. Oh the memories! When Matthew’s diet changed and he was allowed ice cream he would choose Breyers Vanilla. I liked that it didn’t have a ton of weird stuff in it.
For a cold treat on the Fourth of July, we decided to let the boys try Dora the Explorer Slow Melt Popsicle treats. I was kind of excited when I read they didn’t have artificial color in them so I grabbed a box even though it contained HFCS. But then I started reading the ingredients and wondered what they meant by “slow melt”. I found they had ice structuring protein, so I did a little research. I found a paper discussing Ice Structuring Protein in Unilever products. It spoke of a genetically modified yeast that is fermented and produces the Ice Structuring Protein. I do not endorse GMO’s and so I opted to not allow the boys to try this product.
The last product we got to try was the Good Humor Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup. They were really yummy. They tasted just like frozen Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which is a good thing. My middle son saw my husband eating one and has been begging for one non-stop ever since. The magic of chocolate and peanut butter!
I was provided with free boxes of each product for review. All opinions are my own.
Coupon Code for Oxylent
July 6, 2012 By
I was just informed that if you wish to order Oxylent MultiVitamin Drink you can take 20% off the entire order plus FREE SHIPPING (just like going to the store and getting it yourself!) if you order 2 boxes or more, by using the code: TOPOXYLENT. This code should be good through 7/31/12. To read more about Oxylent stop here.
Snow Capped Bananas – Banana Meringues
July 6, 2012 By
My boys adore bananas and since Matthew is now on an even more restricted diet I’m always searching for delicious treats that aren’t terrible for you. Enter the meringue. Meringues are naturally gluten free and dairy free. They are fairly low in sugar and are very simple to make, yet they turn out an extremely elegant finished product. So the Snow Capped Banana was born (AKA Banana Meringues)
Snow Capped Bananas - Banana Meringues
Author: Matthew's Puzzle
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Serves: 4
Fresh Bananas topped with broiler browned Meringue
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ⅛ tsp cream of tartar
- ½ tsp of vanilla extract
- 2 bananas, peeled and cut into large chunks (approx. 5 pieces per banana)
Instructions
- In a clean bowl mix egg whites, sugar, salt and cream of tartar.
- Beat on medium-high until medium stiff peaks form
- Add vanilla and beat to combine.
- Be careful not to over beat.
- Spoon meringue mixture over tops of banana chunks and place bananas flat side down on baking sheet.
- Place under broiler and broil until tops of meringue brown.
- Be careful not to burn
