Some not so guilty pleasures

Mango "gelato"

 When I wasn't feeling well, I was trying to stick to the B.R.A.T. plan, so that I'd only be taking in gentle food. My friend Michelle suggested I take a frozen banana and blend it up to make a kind of banana soft serve. Well, it was delicious. All of the delight of eating ice cream, but I was still being kind to my stomach. Then, things got real. Why, you ask?

Listen, you start freezing some fruit to make soft serve, and you wonder what other fruit would be good. We keep frozen mango on hand because I like it for my smoothies (and frozen adult beverages, because sometimes you need a vessel for a paper umbrella straw!). So, I just blended it up with a little bit of mint and popped some mint leaves and raspberries on top. We had some red wine reduction sauce in the fridge, so I mixed a little of that in also. I have no idea where that wine reduction was from, but is that something that really goes bad? It was delicious, so I hope A is prepared for our freezer to be filled with all manner of frozen fruit this summer. Next idea: frozen, pitted bing cherries. And then raspberries. Then pinapple. How about lemons with a little honey? You haven't heard the last of this!

Today! Yes!

Next, the Sookie books are a guilty pleasure/beach read favorite. I say beach read, but for that to happen I'd need to be at a beach as soon as this is delivered to my Kindle. I won't be. I'll actually be working, and since I feel like I can't really read this aloud to a sweet two year old, I'll be waiting until I get home to kick back and read it. All in one sitting. Maybe. I don't know how long it is. Or how tired I'll be. The point is this: I don't care how cheesy, predictable or overly mushy these books are. A very kind guy I dated in high school bought me the first one and I've been hooked ever since. "Sookeh"!