Word of Mouth
With spring here and warmer weather on the way, what are your favorite cool treats or recipes?
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My absolute favorite is the Dairy Queen Pecan Praline Parfait, but since it packs 720 calories per serving, with 260 from fat, I cannot recommend it in good conscience. I only have it for a very special occasion, such as when I get a new grant or a big paper! For daily refreshment, here’s my guilt free favorite:
Strawberry Coconut Smoothie
6 servings, 120 cal per serving
1 cup frozen strawberries, unsweetened
2 bananas, fresh
2 tablespoons coconut flakes
2 small Wegmans fat-free yogurt (any flavor)
1/2 cup milk (or orange juice)
Blend strawberries, bananas, coconut flakes and yogurt. Add milk or juice to achieve desired consistency. Enjoy!
Gabriela Popescu
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry -
My favorite cool treat, honestly, is peanut butter cup ice cream. A healthier treat that I can enjoy every day without guilt and with lots of feeling of goodness (fiber, antioxidants, fruit intake) is a homemade smoothie: Frozen strawberries, bananas, sometimes cooked beets or blackberries for a beautiful color, yogurt and a splash of apple juice. A whirl in the Bullet and I’m in fruit-lover’s heaven. Last summer, my husband and I also discovered a fantastic and unexpected recipe involving watermelon, feta and Tabasco sauce. The recipe is at http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/watermelon-salad-with-feta-and-mint. It was the favored item at a Father's Day event.
Pavani Ram
Assistant Professor
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine -
When the weather warms up, I like to freeze seedless green grapes as a snack. I also like to create unusual salads from whatever comes in our grocery bag from the Porter Farms Community Supported Agriculture program. I've learned how to use kohlrabi and tomatillos!
Jennifer Morrison
Director
Student Support Services
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Reader Comments
Rijiin Murad says:
I really dig cold soups...gazpacho is delish but so are others cucumber- yogurt and watermelon are a few good ones. I do not have any recipes but check out web sites like cooks.com, Betty Crocker, If you like them as well. Do you have a recipe for your favorite one? I know usually you have to have a food processor of some type to really get them right.
Posted by Rijiin Murad, History graduate 2010, 04/29/10