Spindles Designs by Mary and Mags
Mom taught us how ... now we create together
Many years ago my sister-in-law introduced Iowa Salad to our family and it quickly became a favorite. After I was married and started my own family it got forgotten. (My husband was not a big jello fan). Just a few years ago, maybe five it was rediscovered.
As summer approaches I am aching to be eating summer food like BBQ anything, fresh fruit, and popsicles. We tend to eat so much better during the summer than any other time of the year. I think it is in part because I do not like to heat the house by using the oven, so our desserts tend to be fruit, pudding, or ice cream. I think the other part is that we tend to be outside more and playing more and just eat less over all.
For the most part, fruit is all that we need to satisfy our sweet tooth after spending a day outside, however, every now and then it is fun to dress it up and have fruit dip. It is a little boring to look at, but it is full of flavor and compliments all fruit. We made the kabobs for a family party, we tried to incorporate favorites from most everyone in the family and still have it look pretty. We used wooden skewers and bit sized bits of strawberries, pineapple, grapes and “big” blueberries. I filled the skewers and put them on a platter. The fruit dip was of course optional for people to eat, but we did not bring any of it home. Which makes complete sense as it has yogurt and cream cheese in it, so it is a little cheese cake like, but dip like at the same time.
Orange Rolls became a family dinner tradition more than 40 years ago. My mother found them at a local bakery when I was growing up. They were purchased only on special occasions and holidays. When my husband and I moved our family away we were too far away to attend most of those family dinners. A few years ago we took our family and Thanksgiving dinner to my mother’s house. We purchased the orange rolls from the same bakery and somehow they were not as good.
