FRUIT KABOBS

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Making fruit kabobs was relatively simple. Using 10 inch skewers I started with the 2 blueberries, 2 purple grapes, a strawberry with the green removed, cantaloupe (instead of orange segments) pineapple and 2 green grapes. I found having the kabobs were not only fun but helped everyone want to start with something healthy. I know, I know, pizza is a healthy food.

One day I might have a rainbow party and use the fruit with the orange segments I made at Christmas. It is amazing how quickly I forgot how much work they were.

JELLO SAILS

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I love family time. Having the children and grandchildren (grandpuppy) over is the best of times. Last night was one of those times. We were celebrating Kent’s and Becca’s birthdays. When the grandchildren were young we would go to a favorite restaurant to eat but now that the children are older it isn’t all that fun at a restaurant i.e. Red Robin.

For dinner I fixed inside outside pizza, jello sails, toss salad and fruit kabobs. Dinner was colorful, delicious, fun but most of all the entertainment was out of this world. At the end, puppies and kids cried when it was time to go home. Grandma was exhausted but happy. Today I will talk about the jello sails. They were easy to fix and fun to eat. The only criticism I received was the orange wasn’t a good flavor with the blue berry jello. My thought was eat the orange when you take the sail off and then eat the jello.

TERIYAKI CHICKENT AND RICE

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This looked like a quick dinner and that's what I needed tonight. It was a quick but not flavorful meal and to be honest, adding ketchup to soy sauce is just wrong. If I made it again I would leave out the ketchup and add other flavors such as pineapple or ginger. I also would use the sauce to marinate the chicken (using raw instead of precooked chicken) before adding to the uncooked rice. Well, so much for the quick dinner.

BEEF FAJITAS

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I haven’t had much to blog. I live a rather boring life when Kent is out of town. Now he is back in town and life is good.

We had a Cinco de Mayo party to attend Saturday and I needed to bring a main dish. I chose Beef Fajitas. Since I was going to make enough for a crowd I decided to use the recipe that used the crockpot. I liked the flavors of the fajitas as did people who commented on them. I think the only think I didn’t like was just a personal preference. I just don’t like meet cooked in a crockpot. It doesn’t have the same flavor as grilled, fried or baked meat. I knew that I didn’t have time to fry the meat so this was my only choice. I think I might make these again but I will use olive oil in a sauce pan instead or a crockpot.