Cassie's Banana-Cherry Smoothie

Banana-Cherry Smoothie - Yes!!!!

Ingredients: 1/2 cup milk, 1 banana, 2 cherries, and 2 tablespoons cherry juice.

Mix the ingredients in a large cup then place in a blender set to puree. Makes one delicious banana-cherry smoothie. Enjoy!!!

Hot

According to Yahoo!, these are the ten hottest (spiciest) dishes out there. They will scorch your tongue and the taste will linger in your mouth for a couple of days after you’ve eaten: Phaal Curry (India), Pork Vindaloo (India), Ball of Fire Pepper Steak (made with Red Jabanero Pepper - USA), Caribbean Chicken (Jamaica), Devil Pork Curry (Malaysia), Thai Pepper Steak (Thailand), Sichuan Flower Pepper Hot Pot (China), Chicken Peri-Peri (Angola), Papas a la Huancaina (Peru), and Kimchi Pork (South Korea). The story was tied to some travel website so maybe; just maybe, all they were trying to do was grab our attention? Anyway, I won’t try any of these dishes because I dislike peppers. I always have.

Long time no see

I haven't been by here since February. I know that cannot possibly make any difference one way or the other to anyone so there is no harm done. If I'm lucky, I get one visitor per day at this blog and seldom a return visitor. Imagine that! The blog is probably boring but the music is good, no?

What odor????

It seems a company has come out with a terrific new product. You will first hear about it here. Isn't that nice? Be the first on your block to have it. It will not be advertised until two weeks from now. What is it you ask?????? An odor killer!!!!!! Who among us cannot use some of that???? In the kitchen, in the bathrooms, in the bedrooms, in the living room, in the car, on the porch, in the garage, in the closets, and just everywhere. Here is the link to watch the thing in action... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m40Oa2VzIVs

Chocolate Chips

According to some women on Yahoo! Food: "The best chocolate chip cookies are the following: #1 Brent & Sam's #2 Health Valley Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies #3 Newman's Own Organics Champion Chip Cookies (in Chocolate Chip) #4 Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Chunky Dark Chocolate #5 Chips Ahoy White Fudge Chunky #6 Mrs Field's Semi Sweet Chocolate Chip #7 Kashi TLC Oatmeal Dark Chocolate #8 Keebler Chips Deluxe Soft & Chewy." I actually do not really care. I neither like chocolate nor chocolate chip cookies. Maybe you do. There’s nothing wrong with that. Enjoy.

Coffee 2

From a Yahoo News story: “Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks are America's best-selling ground coffees. but all three were iced by Eight O'Clock Colombian coffee in our taste tests. As for Starbucks, it didn't even place among the top regular coffees and trailed among decafs.” This deal is from Consumer Reports. Who are they? As far as I’m concerned, Starbucks is the best, followed closely by Mickey D’s. I might not know anything about coffee, but I know what I like.

KIWI

Take a guess as to what this might describe and GOOD LUCK: Kingdom: Plantae - Division: Magnoliophyta - Class: Magnolipsida - Order: Ericales - Family: Actinidiaceae - Genus: Actinidia - Species: A. Deliciosa. That is, of course, the scientific nomenclature for a kiwi. I guess the picture gave the game away, no? It just goes to show how something that looks so simple can get complicated. Anyway, even though the actinidia plant is native to China, Italy is the biggest producer of kiwifruit. It used to be called a Chinese gooseberry but I think Kiwi sounds a lot better.