Frozen Fridays #10

It's classic, and it had to be done. Orange creamsickles!
I was given the interesting idea of using orange creamsicle soda pop mixed with half and half for these. The orange soda was cheaper than buying oranges or orange juice, although probably not as healthy. Sure tasted yummy, though!

 

Ingredients: 

Half & Half

Orange cream soda

Frozen Fridays #9

Out of all my popsicles, I've been the happiest with the texture of this one. A deliciously soft combination of blueberries, greek yogurt, and vanilla, inspired by a bowl of leftover blueberries that I found sitting out on the counter.

 

Ingredients:

1 personal sized container of greek yogurt

1/2 cup fresh blueberries

Milk

Vanilla creamer

Throw everything together in the blender, add enough milk to make it a smoothie consistency, and put in four vanilla flavored coffee creamers. Yum!

Frozen Fridays #8

Odd as it sounds, this week's popsicle was inspired by a candle. Yes, a candle.

My boyfriend bought me a watermelon-lemonade Bath & Body Works candle a little ways back. It smells FANASTIC. So, I got to thinking, how would this taste in a popsicle? Well, to answer my own question, it tastes quite nice. It's a delicious and refreshing blend! Interestingly, you get more of the flavor when you suck on it than when you bite it. I guess it's sort of like how Otter Pops work.

Anyhow, this one is certainly worth a try in this hot July weather!

Ingedients:
Water

Lemon Juice

Sugar

Watermelon

First make the lemonade. I squirted lemon juice into a cup of water and kept taste testing (with a spoon) until it seemed lemon-y enough, then added sugar. After this I cut up several good sized chunks of watermelon (no rind) and put it in the blender with the lemonade. Then it went into the popsicle mold and into the freezer!

For those of you who may be too impatient to wait for the popsicles to freeze, I suggest making some cups of this just for drinking. It's really quite delicious :)

Frozen Fridays #7

Oddly, the ingredients seemed slightly more flavorful before I froze them. Not sure what's up with that. At any rate, while not being extremely outstanding compared to some of my other experiments, this was nevertheless good: Strawberry Iced Tea.

Interestingly, the ingredients decided to separate themselves as they sat, so the strawberry flavor is more noticeable once you reach the bottom of this.

 

Ingredients:

Lipton iced tea

Water

Milk

Sugar

Pureed strawberries.

Blend all ingredients together, skim the foam off the top (eat it! it's yummy!), and pour into your molds and freeze it until hard.

Enjoy, and have a happy Independence Day!

Fozen Fridays #6

One word: REFRESHING.

My friends and I enjoyed these (yep, this batch got shared!). Best part of it is that it gets yummier as you eat it, because the fruits are arranged from tartest to sweetest.

Top layer: kiwi

Middle layer: strawberry

Bottom layer: peach

Puree your fruits in the blender with your desired amount of sweetener and a little bit of water. Freeze each layer before adding the next fruit to it.

Tag- You're It.

I came in to work today to discover we've all been given spiffy new name tags.
Wow, I feel so official! I thought to myself.

What would it be like, being tagged? I'd never been tagged in the library before. The librarians all had name tags, but never the pages.
Goodbye, anonymous existence. I stuck the magnet-held tag to my shrug (or, basically, a short sleeved sweater, for those who do not know what a shrug is).

I figured I would instantly get along with my new tag. Why wouldn't I?

As it turns out, the tag had other ideas.

It behaved for the first few minutes. Then as I reached to put some books to the top shelf, it decided it would play hide and seek in my armpit. After that it decided it would be fun to poke me on numerous occasions.

Enough with this! I thought to myself, and inched my tag closer to the edge of my shrug. It helped, for a little while, until the tag came up with a counter move to my little solution. I picked up a big stack of books and it jumped off of my clothes and sprawled out on the floor.

You aren't getting away that easy, tag! After putting away the stack of books, I picked the tag back up from the floor. What am I to do with you, little tag? I wondered, trying it out in different locations.

Putting it at the bottom of my shirt or on my jeans would not be acceptable, I was pretty sure. It didn't want to ride on my shrug, for sure. Finally, I decided to try pinning it on the upper left-hand portion of my shirt. Low enough that my hair wouldn't cover it, high enough to look professional, and on a stable enough piece of clothing that it wouldn't try hiding or poking me in the armpits again. Perfect.

Perhaps the tag was just uncomfortable. We got along well after it's little move. I am happy, the tag is happy, and we both can do our jobs as we should. At last, we came to an agreement.

I think we will get along.

Frozen Fridays #5

Oops... I just learned that Nesquik syrup does not freeze. At all. After I discovered what a mess this was, I let the entire batch melt, mixed all the ingredients together, then refroze it. Didn't have a cool looking ring around the center like I had initially planned, however for some strange reason all the Nesquick migrated to the outside of each popsicle, so I ended up with a soft chocolate coating over a batch of strawberry popsicles. I failed to get a photograph of the second version of these, but I can assure you they tasted rather nice. In the future, I should probably find some sort of chocolate that I know will harden when froze.

Ingredients: Nesquik syrup, pureed strawberries, water, sugar, and milk.