Even I Can Make Ambrosia--Easy and Yummy

At my Sunday morning Bible study, one of the ladies brought a delicious concoction that she called Ambrosia and shared with me how to make it. She said it really easy to make and that I could do it. I seldom make anything but even I thought I could actually do this since it is so good. Here is the video of me making this which took me a little over five minutes.


I suppose you could use different flavored pudding and just mix in anything that would go well. I may play around some with this. Although it has some fruit, I wouldn't consider it a "healthy" recipe considering I used a whole tub of cool whip and marshmallows, but it sure tastes good!

Have you ever made this?  What flavor do you use?  

Joining up with Mama Kat's Vlogging Workshop today in response to the prompt:  Share a healthy recipe.

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A Good Object Lesson: Resurrection Buns

Our 5th and 6th grade Sunday School classes liked making resurrection buns last Sunday. They were easy, fun to make and tasted yummy! After washing their hands, each got one or two chunks of the frozen ready-made dough (Pillsbury brand Grands Biscuits) and made resurrection buns.

Here are the instructions:

Flatten dough out to 5" diameter circle.

Brush some melted butter on it, sprinkle on some cinnamon, (the butter & cinnamon represented the spices for Jesus' burial)

Wrap a marshmallow up in it and pinch close completely.

Brush or poor on some melted butter for the outside and sprinkle some cinnamon on the outside;

Place on cookie sheet face down to help prevent them from opening.

Bake for 13 minutes.

When done, the marshmallow disappeared just like Jesus' body disappeared from the tomb when he rose from the dead! The boys were surprised the marshmallow was gone!

7 Things I Learned This Week #95 (elevators, recipe, food, history, Kindness, Amazon)

Do You Know What Tomorrow Is?

Over at The Prairie Maid I learned from a badge on her sidebar that November 13 is World Kindness Day. This is the fist I've heard about it. We should all be a little kinder than usual!

Elevators

Did you know some elevators don't have any buttons for the floors on the inside? I just came across some like that this week. The buttons for the floors are on the wall next to the elevator on the outside! The security guy asked me if I needed help when he saw me standing there, gawking at it getting ready to take this picture and told me they are common in New York, but were just installed in this building about six months ago.

Sawdust Pie

I just found a recipe for Sawdust Pie at Charm of The Carolines! Never heard of this before but it sure looks good. I think I could even make it except for separating egg whites--don't know how to do that. (The recipe is at the bottom of the post.)

Bread Pudding

Last week when we went out for breakfast to Hometown Buffet, I was disappointed to learn that they didn't have any bread pudding. That's my favorite thing to get there at the breakfast buffet. Apparently, at least the one by us is discontinuing it. Boo hoo.

History--cool site

Over at Comedy Plus this week I found a link to a cool site that tells you what happened the year you were born. All you do is plug in a year and it prints a bunch of things that happened then. It's pretty cool. In 1953, the top selling movie was Peter Pan (my hero--I never wanted to grow up either).

Amazon's Listmania

Amazon deleted all my lists except one because I included "My Funny Dad, Harry" (the book I wrote) in them. It took me 35 minutes this morning to re-create just one of them! ARRGH! Why couldn't they have just told me? Why couldn't they have just removed my book? I will be doing a post about this a some point.  (I was just following the advice I read in Sell Your Book On Amazon by Brent Sampson.)

Bulldogs

Yesterday one of my attorneys shared that he took his dog to the vet for surgery. It has skin cancer that keeps returning. He said bulldogs are prone to skin cancer. Very sad the dog and his family.

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The Worst Pancakes Ever! (Writer's Workshop)

Since I don't bake or cook, I had to go way back in time to my Jr. High school days to share about my mistake in the kitchen. During our foods class, I still remember making pancakes. I was so happy because usually we had to make some goofy thing I didn't even like and finally we got to make something actually good that I might even want to make some day. I do not accept the full blame for this disaster because there were four of us working together on this assignment.

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6 Things I Learned This Week--Part 50

Paddle Tennis

Ever hear of paddle tennis. One of the attorneys where I work was limping along with a cane so I asked him what happened. He said he tore a muscle playing paddle tennis. It's like tennis but with these variations: the court is about 2/3 the size of a tennis court, the ball is harder and a paddle with holes is used instead of a racquet. The court is gritty to give players traction. I never heard of this game before, have you?

Protect the Paws

Over at Modern Mom, I learned that medicated lip balm applied to the dog's paws acts as a barrier between its paws and the ice and snow and helps heals any minor cuts or scrapes.

Blogger vs. Wordpress

Over at Mama Kat's this week she made the switch to Wordpress and posted a detailed post about the benefits with some helpful links to other posts. The seed has been planted. If you're thinking about possibly switching, check out Tutorial Time: Wordpress vs. Blogger.

Turtle Pretzels

Thanks to Sweet Simplicity I found a recipe that looks really, really yummy over at Our Best Bites--Easy Pretzel Turtles made with rolos, nuts and small pretzels.

Joshua Cribbs

Joshua Cribbs (my favorite Browns player) has been named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his efforts in the Browns' win over the Steelers last Thursday.

Harley Won!

Harley (Daisy the Curly Cat's brother) WON Catster's World's Coolest Cat competition in the Stretch & Yawn category! Stop by to see his winning photo and congratulate him at his "How Does THAT Work."

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I Cooked! (This Is My 500th Post By The Way!)

Anyone who knows me knows I am not a cook. I do not spend more than 20 minutes a day in the kitchen and most of that time is spent feeding the cats, the dog and preparing Abby's Kong toy for when we leave. Lately though, I've had a taste for scrambled eggs and kept thinking that we'd be going out for breakfast soon and I'd get some then. It seems though, we never went out for breakfast yet and I still wanted some. I asked my friend, Tim, from our puppet team who really likes to cook for a simple recipe for scrambled eggs that I could make in the microwave.

Even then I didn't have any eggs so had to buy some. I chickened out the first trip to the store but the second time, I decided to give it a try Friday morning. I felt so good that they turned out that I made a couple more right away. Sorry you can't see my excitement in the picture but Gerard was out walking Abby at the time.

Here it is for anyone else who is kitchen challenged like me and still doesn't know how to make scrambled eggs:

2 eggs
1 Tablespoon of milk
Mix with a fork
Cook in microwave for 1 1/2 minutes (that's what mine took) May want to start with 30 seconds and just add time until they are the right consistency
Mash around with fork and done!

Linking this post up with Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop prompt:  Write a post inspired by the word "eggs."

I Made An Ice Cream Cake!

Someone told me how to make an ice cream cake and I'm actually giving it a try. It sounded easy enough that even I could do it.

All you need is Klondike bars and Cool Whip!


Put a layer of cool whip in the bottom of a pan.
Then some Klondike bars (I just used two here).
A second layer of Cool Whip.
A second layer of Klondike bars.
A third layer of Cool Whip.
Freeze it.

Since there are only two of us to eat this, I just used a small container but you could use a regular cake pan and just make larger layers.

It cut easily the next day and came out nicely! It tasted delicious too! Gerard liked it too!


I had this for my supper last night. Of course, you can fancy up the top too with, sprinkles, nuts, cherries, strawberries, or whatever else you think would be good. I still have some cool whip left so maybe next time I'll add some kind of topping. I'm just thrilled it turned out!

Nine Things I Learned This Week! -Part 13

This has been one very educational week for me. This is the most I learned in a week since I've started doing these every Friday.

Thanks to Fenced In Family's Loss of Information post I finally backed up some of my more important files on a CD but still wondered how to back up my blogs. I found the answer at Blogger Tips and Tricks and also at Quick Online Tips. Unfortunately, there's no easy way so I guess I'll just select my more popular posts to copy the HTML code for it to my "notepad" on my computer as suggested at Blogger Tips and Tricks. To back up comments, by selecting the email notification you can save them that way. One of the commenters mentioned a free online service that might be easier: https://blogbackupr.com. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks to Kathy at The Junk Drawer, I learned that once you publish a post, it immediately goes to feed burner sending to google readers and if you delete it, anyone trying to read it will get an error, not found. To fix this, the best thing to do is change the post content.


View my page on Author and Book Event Center

When chatting at Author and Book Event CenterI learned a new word: "lookiloos." I never heard this word before, but it means people who look at a site without signing in to join or participating by leaving a comment. Are you a lookiloo? Have you ever heard that word before? (If you'd like to chat with me, join me there at 7:30 Eastern time on Tuesdays.) In chatting with some other authors, I learned that newspaper ads are pretty much a waste of money, AFTER I already spent mega bucks for a 2" x2" black and white ad in a section with many other bigger, colorful book ads in the NEW YORK TIMES!


I found this very creative brownie recipe when visiting a new blog to me at Purr Prints. Before baking, you press in peppermint patties. Don't they look yummy! I sure would like some in my tummy!



Did you know you can buy special marshmallows for cereal? You can! I learned about this at I Do Things So You Don't Have To. Here is the link to Cereal Marshmallows where you can order some. They actually care about customer satisfaction even. There are also other things available too. I'm really beginning to think there is a site for anything!

Here's an easy way to add a search widget for your blog if you want to that Alan from Alan Gay and Straight left in the comments on my "Help, I'm Losing It" post:
http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/07/search-widget-for-your-blog.html (just make sure your logged in to the blog you want it on)
click "Add Blog Search Widget" or there is also a code you can copy if you prefer. I put this one on "My Funny Dad, Harry" blog although I like the looks of the one on this blog better. Still don't know where I got it from though.

Last Saturday I attended a drama workshop that our church had for anyone interested on the drama team or interested in acting. I learned that actors actually do warm up exercises before going on stage! This was new to me. I will share these with you in a single post.

I learned from Bumpy Path that when commenting on Blogger blogs, I should choose the "Name/URL" option instead of accepting the default Google ID because the link for the Google ID goes to the profile page instead of my blog! All those comments then that I left using that, don't even help my page rank any. The name you leave will be what shows up as the linked text. The URL you leave is the address to your blog, and it needs to be a complete URL with the http in front. I sure wish I knew this sooner!

See my new "Top Commenters Widget" on the sidebar? Thanks to Corpse of Attic I found an easy way to install it! Hope you enjoy it. It shows the top commenters over the last 30 days.

5 Things I Learned This Week-Part 10

I found the recipe for these cute "no-bake" turkey cookies at
Heart of Wisdom-Heart at Home-click this link to go there and Robin gave me permission to post about it here. I bet I could even make these!

At SpicyBugz World I learned about a nice gift basket site called www.bookbouquet.com. It sounds like a very nice gift with some food and a book that you can choose to be included in it and have it shipped for free! These gift baskets are a really nice idea. The ladies at our church usually get together around Thanksgiving time to make similar gift baskets for some people in the church that are having a tough time. We have a potluck supper, some worship time and then we make gift baskets with items everyone brought to donate. It's one of the most fun things to do. Everyone really enjoys this evening and basket recipients are always surprised and pleased.

For a humorous look at Identity Theft check out laugh at Jodi's Journey. This post made me actually laugh out loud and share it with my husband.



When a cat's tail is up but curved at the end like a question mark, it's a sign they are ready to play. I learned this playing the cat trivia on my blog this week and find this fact very helpful in relating with my cats.

At the the cat/dog blog I learned that All you have to do is visit www.GiveBackAmerica.org before you shop at a major online retailer (such as Amazon, Ebay, Zappos, etc.) and a percentage of each sale goes directly to the organization of your choice.