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// Where All Our Days Merge Together...

{as heavy-duty as our frozen flavours got this month; no kidding here; my gram's after school friday treat with dinner - the fizzy mixed drink!; our three ingredient 'peach kola slushy'}

 

... and we can never get to bed early enough during the week. Can you relate? August has been super-busy for most getting all the necessaries in place for a smooth(er) year ahead. In some ways, it feels like getting ready for a new year (as in January), throwing out this and restocking that, wishing there was a safe bonfire happily waiting over the railings instead of having to relate to one item at a time, and becoming perplexed as to why it's taking an hour longer to slip into bed. We're blaming it on our crave for some light nighttime entertainment. It's an anxious and maddening world out there, understandably, and I've had many unraveling moments too. We need our calm, refueling things! These too have been the days of August. More of the month that was after the jump. Have a relaxing weekend everybody. ~xx

// Whipped No-Churn Orange Ice Cream

'Light and mousse-y with a definite above the clouds silver lining and all that summer jazz is how I'd describe this Whipped No-Churn Orange Ice Cream dessert. Two months ago while browsing through one of my favourite food blogs: Nigella, for a holiday pudding recipe actually, I stumbled upon this lovely! It was, of course, irresistible, with its four ingredients, no heat, no eggs, and no-churn layout. That weekend I got to it and well, it's become quite a luxurious thing. It's National Ice Cream Day this Sunday. Please don't miss it. We all need a little bit of it. I've been thinking and praying for our moms and dads with young children and having to balance so much extra in the right now and with looking ahead to our new school year and new supports being put in place to lighten the journey forward. Good things are in progress... Have a very very restful and loving weekend. ~xx

// Piña Colada Sherbet

Early last month, I started thinking about a frozen summer treat for our upcoming warmer weekends. We'd been hearing all sorts of wonderful thing about warmer weather and what it 'magically' could do to our current state of 'what on earth just happened in the world', and I'm hoping just as much too, that this sort of hot magic will give us the reprieve we've been desiring so — more okey dokey outdoors with our younger kids, and not just our backyards. But I do agree, and I'm sure you do too, our quiet backyards are a great start and a blessing. And because I wanted our little ones to have as much fun and refreshing celebration too, I went with a favourite non-alcoholic blend as we make a splash or two out back: 'The Classic Piña Colada', now slushed, to add some tropical beachy-ness to wherever our mood-sails take us, including right on our now green front lawns, sunscreen-slathered of course. Another weekend is on our heels and this time we get to say, "Hello Summer!", (Saturday, June 20th at 5:44 pm EDT). Here's to a little more ex-haling.

 

And a very happy Father's Day to our loving dads out there doing it and doing it, through the thicker and thinner things of it. We love you and appreciate every bit of you for always being there for us through the everydays and crazies of this world. :) ~xo

// Strawberry Moscato Frosé

If we're being honest, right around now, and even if you're reading this before 12 noon, all moms (empty-nesters included, #thisistrue) would welcome a fizzy! sip to thaw out and chill-lax for a few with balancing the kids: monitoring online school modules and indoor activities, work from home adjustments on all levels, and of course... the housework, always an ongoing of some kind. I thought about this — I really did — and decided on a refreshing and playful frozen rosé blend (very Dad-doable) to embrace our succulent spring-season strawberries, a soft pink booze to celebrate Mom, and desired fuss-free prep, for a laid-back afternoon or evening with or without the homemade pizza, but I'd say, make the pizza or other homemade favourite too, keeping it light and fun. Happy Mother's Day to all our moms: current, expecting, and moms-in-spirit...  ~xo

// Naked Mocaccino Ice Cream

Hello April!~ It feels like our uninhibited morning espresso or coffee moment, meeting that tempting square of after-lunch dark chocolate, for dessert. And the poetry behind it makes it that more inviting... For weeks now I've been enjoying little nibbles of a vanilla-infused dark chocolate (which I keep in the refrigerator), and so in demand these days that our grocery store is now out of stock! for the first time ever since I began shopping there six years ago. 'Out of stock' is another new norm these days and evidently I'm not the only one soothing thyself avec le chocolat...