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Amaretto Chocolate Mousse

Makes 8 servings at 127 calories each.

Tip: If calorie counting isn't important, use whipping cream rather than milk.

Ingredients
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 cups skim milk
2 separated eggs plus two extra egg whites
1/4 cup of sugar
1/3 cup of Dutch process cocoa (or any good cocoa)
1 tablespoons of Amaretto
1/3 cup of sugar
Strawberries

Recipe
Using a saucepan, mix together the gelatin and 1/2 cup of the skim milk (or whipping cream). Stir and leave it for a minute so the gelatin can soften. Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir for another minute or until the gelatin dissolves.
Combine the rest of the skim milk (or whipping cream) with the two egg yolks and beat. Add this mixture to the ingredients in the sauce pan. Also add 1/4 cup of sugar and the cocoa then stir.

Stirring constantly, cook this over medium heat until thickened. This takes about eight minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the Amaretto. Refrigerate for about twenty minutes.

Bring the egg whites to room temperature then beat until foamy, using a good electric mixer. Add the remaining 1/3 cup of sugar one tablespoon at a time. Beat until you have stiff peaks. Slowly add the chilled chocolate mixture to the beaten egg whites. Fold this in gently.

Carefully spoon the mousse into individual dessert dishes, or into a 1 1/2 quart serving bowl. Chill the Amaretto Chocolate Mousse Recipe for two hours or more. Garnish with halved or sliced strawberries. You can also add chocolate shavings if you desire.

Ramblings of an old woman............

Ok......this is my first time to even try to do a blog! I think I have alot to say....LOL! What prompted me to do this blog is LIFE.....It is so true about the above statement. Each day is like trying a new piece of candy in a box of chocolates. Each one is different. They can be sweet, sour, unusual or refreshing. We don't know what it is until we bite into it! Like life, it is a total surprise.

And one day, life bit me in the butt! I came down with cancer. I say it that way, because I sure did take plenty of medicine to get rid of it. But like the saying, "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" the same is true for cancer. You are always a cancer patient.

Originally, when I found out I had cancer, I thought life had dealt me a really bad hand. And, I blamed God for giving me cancer! What a joke! God no more gave me cancer than life and I were in a card game.

I finally came to the realization that life was wonderful! That each day was truly a blessing from God, and it was up to me as to how I wanted to experience it!

So.........I have decided to keep my eyes open to the world, look around me, and just talk about what I see, or what I think, or how I feel. And while I might just be talking to myself, that's ok too! I can promise you, chemo brain is a real thing. So, if I forget what I did today, then hey.......I can just go back and read it in my blog! LOL!

Also, I am going to periodically put scrumptious chocolate recipes on my site! Why? It's CHOCOLATE, SO YOU HAVE TO ASK?

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Whatever happened to.................

One woman's junk is another woman's treasure? Is my junk not treasure worthy? Is there just too much junk out there? Does my junk not fit in your trunk? (Sorry, always thought "junk in the trunk" was cute!)

I know, I know! What up with all the junk metaphors? Well, to put it mildly.......I HAVE TOO MUCH JUNK! Junk in the closets, junk in storage, junk in the attic (no not my brain), junk in the RV, junk, junk, junk!!!! And I'm hoping that if I say the word junk enough times, the word will no longer have meaning and everything will just miraculously disappear! Junk, junk, junk, junk, junk............................wait for it.................................wait for it............................waiting........................................ NOPE!!!!!! It's all still here! Darn! So now what do I do?

Oh.........well so.........I started gathering some of it......lined it up.........took pictures of it.........downloaded to the computer...........and spent a whole day setting up online yard sales on kingwoodyardsales. com and rummagethewoodlands.com! It's been 3 days now, and I've sold one Marie Osmond Doll and a tiny, little flower arrangement!!!! So far, there's 50 items listed and only 2 things have been gotten rid of. And, I have 1000's more items to post!!!!

Oh, but wait.........people have e-mailed about lots of my goodies! (If I call it goodies, does that make it better?) They have even said they wanted to buy it! But do they show up? NO!!! It seems I'm wasting more time waiting on people than participating in more real life situations! Like last

night, "sorry honey...can't go out to dinner because someone's coming to get......" and "no Joyce, can't go next door to meet the new neighbor because someone's coming to pick up......." I knew all this junk was trouble!!!! (There's that word again!)

So, what about garage sales/yard sales? I hate garage sales/yard sales? Putting price labels on everything, making sure you have enough change, dealing with every Tom, Dick and Mary that walks up, praying for good weather and then cursing the heat; not to mention figuring out what

to do with all the leftovers....(sorry, did I just mention that?) IS NOT MY IDEA OF FUN! Well it twue, it's twue............(for those Princess Bride fans..LOL - you know who you are.........).

So what to do. What to Do? Three days and I'm already tired of this! Three days and I'm frustrated...........Three days and I'm without a life.................So what now?............................ thinking.......................................thinking......................................thinking........................... still thinking .................................................

Thinking some more............................................................. hmmmmmmmmm.................................. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww............................................... I wonder when that burn ban is gonna be lifted?!?

Life was meant to be good! Let's ban junk and garage sales!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!

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