Today the A to Z Food Challenge almost got my stumped! It after doing some research I found a few “X” foods and the first one sounds delicious. Xi gua lao is a dish from Beijing and also knows as watermelon jelly. The ingredients used are watermelon, cherries, agar, sugar and vanilla powder. Water is mixed with agar, vanilla powder and sugar and boiled into syrup. The cherries are cut into small slices and the watermelon is crushed to get watermelon juice, and mixed with the syrup and then cooled.
Lia has so many butterflies in her garden, watching the Fluttering Butterflies for Wordless Wednesday is so relaxing. Lia hopes you enjoyed her Fluttering Butterflies for Wordless Wednesday. What does seeing a yellow butterfly mean? http://themarthareview.com/yellow-butterflies/ Here is another video in this blog from my Mom’s Garden I took last July. I think the photos are awesome. http://themarthareview.com/moms-yellow-butterfly/
As I mentioned in a previous blog, some of the letters for food in this challenge is a challenge in itself but I did good today! The A to Z Food Challenge – W will hydrate you! During the summer there is nothing better on a hot day than to eat Watermelon! Watermelon not only hydrates you but it fills you up. Watermelon is a healthy fruit, it has a high water content and also has many other important nutrients and vitamin C. So watermelon isn’t only a tasty low
What foods can you come up with for the A to Z Food Challenge – V? The first three that come to mind for me are vegetable oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Do you know what these three “V” foods have in common? Well they aren’t actually food but they are ingredients that will make food! They are all ingredients on my delicious chocolate tea cake! This cake is so simple to make and if you have an egg allergy you don’t have to worry, there aren’t any eggs in the
For the A to Z Food Challenge – U I have another food that brought back memories. Unpasteurized milk is my food for today. When I was young my aunt and uncle had a large dairy farm in upstate New York. My parents would load my grandparents, my sisters and me in the car and we would go visit the farm. They had three children, 2 boys about 4 and 5 years older than me and one girl that was just a few month younger that me. I remember us