Rainbow in a Glass

"A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing"

Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY 
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• GARDEN UPDATE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GOODIES~# 0042 RAINBOW IN A GLASS
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY~  

Mum

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across. 

Hope it says somewhere in my biography that I "totally could have wrestled a puma but chose a higher moral path"     @IamEnidColeslaw

DID YOU KNOW...?

The world's smallest flower is the wolffia. A bouquet of a dozen Wolffia blooms would comfortably fit on the head of a pin. Not only is it the world's smallest flower it produces the world's tiniest fruit! 

GARDEN UPDATE
Hope you had a happy 4th! We did, having the sisters over for a fun lunch where we had rainbow in a glass for dessert! We also tried grilling watermelon and melon, with tasty results!


After yesterday's exhausting efforts, I managed to finsh 30 jars of apricot jams, including some versions with melon, kiwi and such.


It was very humid today, unusual here and not appreciated. I feel for those poor people in the Midwest, where their a/c is out and it is 90% humidity and 100 degrees!

GARDEN GIGGLE

What do you give a sick pig?

Oinkment!

What do you get when you cross a steer with a tadpole?

A bull-frog!

What do you get when a sheep walks under a cloud?

A sheep that is under the weather!

FAUNA

GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0042 RAINBOW IN A GLASS 
If you ever wanted a show stopper dessert with little work and big results, this is it!

You Will Need:
Red Jello
Yellow Jello
Blue Jello
Maraschino Cherries with a stem
CLEAR small wine demi-glass or individual dessert bowl, large shot glasses or small martini glass

Instructions:

(Editor's Note: To maximize ease, we used pre-made jello. For four servings in a small size serving dish, you will need one small individual container of jello ( like the type you would put in a lunchbag). To make this dessert sugar-free, you will need to make the boxed jello, as we could not find all the colors sugar-free we needed in a tub)

First we will be using only three colors. The coolest thing about this dessert is that the light refracts against the clear glass to make the rainbow. So although you SEE red, orange, yellow, green and blue, there are only the primary colors-red, yellow and blue.

Start with the blue and spoon, carefully into the bottom of the glass the blue layer, keeping in mind you have two other layers to go.You want the jello to be flat. Let this set up in the refrigerator about 30 minutes.

  

Next add the yellow layer, spooning carefully over the blue layer. Your goal is to have it sit smoothly on top of the blue layer without blending into the blue. Surprisingly, you will see the green layer right away if you have done it right. Add your maraschino cherry with the stem straight up. You can cut the bottom of the cherry so that it sits flat and stands up straight. Let these two layers set up for about an hour.

Last, add the red layer. Spoon the jello (it is helpful if you let it slide in in a big glop all at once). It should slide around the cherry and cover it, with the stem standing straight up. Let the dessert sit overnight in the fridge. Serve your amazing creation to great delight of your guests!

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