Coconut Cream Fruit Dip

 Together as a Family

Serve with- watermelon, cantaloupe, kiwi, grapes, bananas(cut right before you serve), blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and fresh pineapple

Ingredients

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
• 1¼ cups cream of coconut (Brand "Coco", found it at Smiths grocery right by the liquor and margerita mixers)
• 1 bar (8 oz) cream cheese softened

Instructions

• Add heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar into a mixing bowl. Beat with a handheld mixer, or use a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, until stiff peaks form. This will take about 3-4 minutes.
• In a seperate bowl, add the cream of coconut and softened cream cheese. Blend together until combined, smooth, and mixed well.
• Gently fold the whipped cream, with a wooden spoon or spatula, into the cream cheese and coconut mixture. Stir together until combined.
• You can serve this fruit dip right away OR for best taste and texture refrigerate the fruit dip for 2-3 hours before serving.
• Store leftovers, in a covered container, for up to 3 days.

Notes

Cream of Coconut : Refer to the picture in the post for a picture of what this looks like. You will find it in the drink mix aisle. Sometimes the same aisle as alcoholic beverages and/or flavored water packets. This does NOT contain alcohol. It is just normally used to make mixed drinks. It's not the same thing as a can of coconut milk. Look for it specifically by the brand name of Coco Real. 

Fridge Time : The flavors come together so perfectly and the fruit dip gets this creamy texture once it has refrigerated for at least 2-3 hours. I always make it ahead of time so it can hang out in the fridge before serving. 

Nutrition

Calories: 206kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 63mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 409IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1mg

General Conference

I love conference and love to make it special with food and activities. Its so nice to be home, relaxed and listening.

We like to set up a small tent like King benjamin, faced their tents to him and lots of blankets for a fort. Lots of random coloring pages, cross word puzzles, a possible quilt to tie, 

printables for small kids,  #1 teenager notebook, #2 teenager notebook. 

More challenging wordsearches   

Learn to paint Watercolor beaches/ocean

One time the girls tallied up specific words (Jesus, testimony, church, scriptures, etc...) that were spoken, that really got them listening to the words the speakers were saying, I think we even gave them a penny for each time they recorded it.  They were really motivated.

A week before - buy the groceries for everything

                        - make the chex mix, fruit and veggie dip the week before conference.

Thursday or friday  - assemble the breakfast french toast and let sit in fridge 

                                - cut fruit and veggies

                                - cut carrots, potatoes, onions for beef roast

 I like to have mostly healthy snacks-

Veggies

1. red and orange peppers
2. celery
3. carrots
4. baby tomatoes
5. cucumbers
6. with veggie ranch dip

Fruit

1. strawberries
2. grapes
3. oranges
4. bananas

5. kiwis
6. apples- prepare a few days before- I like to cut 5-10 apples in advance and let them sit in a ziplock bag with lemon juice, then they don't go brown.
7. any type of berries- raspberries, black berries
8. caramel to dip apples in

9.  Coconut Fruit Dip ((added 9/28/21))

Snacks

1.  Chips and guacamole- 1 avocado, dash lemon juice, salt and pepper, 1/4t diced tomatoes, cilantro,
garlic

2. crackers, beef log, and cheese

3. chex mix (added 9/28/21)

and with some treats and some BREAKFAST
1. Pumpkin Muffins
2. Baked Whole Apples
3 .Baked sliced apples
4. Baked Apple Oatmeal or the other Best Baked Choco Chip Oatmeal

5. I've made whole wheat cinnamon rolls,

6. Alli Baked french Toast


Dinner
Pumpkin Chili
Beef Roast

10/6/24

This was the first time Katie was gone at college and lily went with a friend (Anne Marie Fry) to Idaho. So it was chloe, luke, dad and i. 

Chloe wanted- fruit platter, fun pages to color, deviled eggs
Lily likes to have- neef roast, cinnamon rolls, strawberries and fruit dip, beef stick and crackers, smoothie bowls, roasted potatoes

Sweet & Savory Almond Cream Cheese

Zerbert

Elephantastic

VeganHuggs

• 1/2 cup blanched almonds(soaked overnight; see step 1)
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons water (I used the water from the soaked almonds)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 t sugar (omit if you want a more savory cheese)
• 1/2t cornstarch (I wanted to mixture to be a little thicker)

1. Soak the blanched almonds in water overnight. ( I actually did soak them overnite, but didn't have time the next day to make the cream cheese. So I put the bowl of soaked almonds in the fridge for 3-4 days b/c I couldn't make it. I finally made it and it turned out so delicious. It was fine to soak it for multiple days.
2. Place all the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until creamy. I used a blender and would blend it for 1 min the scrape down sides and repeated for 5-7 minutes.
3. Transfer the cream cheese to a bowl and let the cheese chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour before using it to allow it to thicken a bit. Then smear it on your bagel or bread slices! :) 

I did make two different batches from the recipe above. One was sweet to put on top of my baked oatmeal or a fruit dip and the other was savory for a veggie dip or salad dressing. Both are the same recipe except the savory one leave out the sugar.

I added 1/8-1/4c of almond cheese to Ranch Dressing
It turned out great!