This is a fun project for kids in the summertime. (If you are in Missouri you can have Easter Lillies and an ice storm at the same time, like we are having now.) Take some blooming flowers and with parental supervision, take a knife and carefully split the stem lengthwise at least halfway up. Place the flower in a glass or vase. You want the water to be just a little higher than the split. Pick a color from your food coloring pack that you think will contrast well against your flower’s color. We used a yellow easter lily and blue food coloring. Add at least thirty drops to the water in your glass or vase. (The more color the better!). After approximately 24 hours, the color will slowly move up the stem and spread into the bloom. Every flower is different so each flower will look unique. You can create a beautiful bouquet for a table centerpiece by using different types of flowers and different colors of food coloring and then combining the flowers into a single arrangement.
and place 2-3 layers inside the strainer. Leave enough cheese cloth so that it will drape over the edges just a bit. As it strains, it will pull the cheese cloth down so you want to have some extra to keep it from collapsing in on itself. If you have any extra on the sides you can lay it over the top of the yogurt to protect it while it’s straining.
(more on that in a later post). The yogurt cheese will keep for approximately one week in the refrigerator.
. It’s a copycat “raw” recipe for donuts. If you are on a low sugar diet or are avoiding processed foods, this is a great recipe to try. I love what Ani says about processed foods all tasting the same. She states that if you buy an Oreo or some Doritos, every cookie and every chip will taste exactly the same when you bite into it. No matter where you bought it or what time of year it was packaged an Oreo or a Dorito will always taste exactly like an Oreo or Dorito. Real food is not like that, however. Nature puts natural variants into the taste of things–depending on the season, the quality of the harvest or the location it was purchased, a piece of fruit may be very sweet, sour or somewhere in-between. Our taste buds have gotten so accustomed to packaged and processed foods that we don’t even notice that there is NO difference anymore when we eat something. As a matter of fact, when a tomato or a piece of fruit doesn’t taste like we expect, we automatically assume that there is something wrong with it.
