Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 9th August 2024, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

Easy listening music and chat, Friday 9th August 2024, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush, it's your free choice so please post any of your favorite music of all genres!

It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler (by Beatrice Florea)

Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song 

Natalie & Nat King Cole Unforgettable

The Merseybeats - Wishin' And Hopin'

Gentle On My Mind - The Petersens

Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song

Elvis Presley-It's now or Never Take 

Summer Nights- Grease

Marianne Faithfull-This Little Bird

Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: LOTUS ICE-CREAM POPSICLES

    LOTUS ICE-CREAM POPSICLES

By Lisa Starr

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Stumbling on the secret to making homemade condensed milk has inspired a whole host of new desserts and sweet treats.

Reluctant to use preservative-packed, store-bought condensed milk, I rarely attempted dishes that called for this essential ingredient, until this recent discovery.

Making homemade condensed milk is as easy as stirring sugar into milk until it dissolves, then simmering undisturbed for approximately 40 minutes.

Voila!

My latest batch of condensed milk was put to decadently delicious use in these homemade Lotus ice-cream popsicles.

A fabulously fun, summer treat and so much easier to make than you might think.

The homemade vanilla ice-cream can be flavored with anything from Lotus spread to crushed Oreos, halva threads, toasted almonds with crystalized ginger, strawberries and meringues, coffee, and pretty much everything in-between.

And if you use commercial condensed milk to make your ice-cream then that's just fine too.

I'll never know!

Ingredients

500 ml 38% cream

1 can cold condensed milk (see notes)

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pinch salt

Creamy Lotus spread

Lotus biscuits

Dark or white chocolate to drizzle

Popsicle sticks

Directions

1: Beat cream till thick then beat in cold condensed milk till peaks form, and stir in vanilla and salt.

2: Add (optional) Lotus spread melted in the microwave till liquid - add as much or little as you like - and then pour into a container to freeze. See other flavor suggestions or keep ice-cream vanilla flavored.

3: When frozen - or nearly frozen - spread a thick layer of ice-cream over Lotus biscuits, place a wooden popsicle stick at the base, then add extra ice-cream and sandwich together with a second Lotus biscuit.

4: Dip into melted Lotus spread - or melted chocolate - and decorate with chocolate squiggles if desired and freeze till ready to serve.

COOK'S NOTES: Stir ⅔ cup white sugar into 2 ¼ cups  of 3% milk till dissolved then simmer over medium heat without stirring for approximately 40 minutes till creamy-colored and thickened. It will thicken further as it cools. Condensed milk can now be stored in the refrigerator for up to 6 months. This quantity produces the equivalent of 1 can of condensed milk. This method works for coconut milk and other non-dairy milks too and enables you to produce vegan/parve condensed milk. Popsicle sticks are easily available at craft shops, art shops, and in the craft department at Max Stock. 

Enjoy 

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Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 2nd August 2024, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

  Easy listening music and chat, Friday 2nd August 2024, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush, it's your free choice so please post any of your favorite music of all genres!

Sunshine (Irving Berlin) – Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band

Tom Jones - What s new pussycat

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman 

The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789

I Saw the Light - Hillary Klug and Friends

Paul Anka - You Are My Destiny 

Mary Hopkin "Those Were The Days" 

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 

La Vie En Rose - Lucy Thomas

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World 

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Welcome August, Summer's On

  

Ah, after the festivities with summer we continue our summer!

Olaf doesn't realize he's being separated, not impaled 

this time!

So hot even a bear will go to every length to stay cool 

and refreshed.  He can have the horse trough or any pool.

As summer is in full swing,  something in the back of our minds

knows the days grow shorter after Midsummer's Day.

One more road trip coming up, see the sights and places on your list.

Grab a coffee or more on the way. A caffienated driver is better

than a sleepy one.

If you have no place to go, have unlimited cheer and coffee or tea with 

us!  This is the place, the same site always open 24/7. What happens here

stays here!

As a creative person would say,

Bring your journal or sketchpad.  Draw that first flower, 

or write about it. Is it lonely, or with many other flowers?

Is it in the forest or in a meadow?

My story is nearing the finish.  Finally at the Epilogue, or the final thought, speech of my main character.  His task was complete, but there is another to move on to the next trilogy. I have the 4th book outlined so far.

Research is essential, or readers will pick up on that.

Wizard of Oz...nostalgic and takes us away

No matter where you go....

Keep on with your projects, stay busy and focused 

no matter what.  Be calm in the storm, be focused

and live, live well in health and wellness and spirit!