It's National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day

Have you ever had Lemon Chiffon Cake?  I thought chiffon was a fabric, not to be eaten.  Lemon may be my favorite flavor, running just ahead of chocolate.  An older cousin, Linda, and I share a birthday and several years (at least 1 that I have pictures for) we had a combined party.  (And if it was only one, it made quite an impression on me.)  She always got a chocolate cake and I always got a lemon cake.

According to myblueprint.com here's the chiffon cake story:  "Chiffon cakes were invented in Los Angeles in the 1920s by a baker who wanted to create a dessert that was both lighter than a pound cake and moister than a sponge cake.  Chiffon cake was an overnight success, but the recipe was kept secret for 20 years until it was sold to General Mills and released to the public as one of Betty Crocker's signature desserts."  Myblueprint also has a Lemon Chiffon cake recipe.  Chiffon cakes are known for being very light, like angel food cake and it takes a lot of eggs to make one.  Honestly, it's way to complicated for me.  This one won't be on my calendar next year.

Instead today, as March is waning, we will celebrate National Celery Month.  Grandkids Aubrey, Tyler, and MJ had fun with this celebration.  Celery is a versatile healthy choice.  It's mostly water so it takes more calories to eat it than it generates.  It's a must in tuna salad and good with peanut butter, cream cheese, in dips and salads, or just by itself.  It's a very light food.

Speaking of light, today's meditation is Matthew 11:28-30  Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Happy National Chip and Dip Day

Do you like dip with your chips?  I don't usually eat dip except at Mexican restaurants.  Then I get cheese dip.  
What's your favorite dip?
What's your favorite chips to dip?
My mind keeps straying from chips to other things to dip - like donuts in coffee or chicken nuggets into buffalo sauce.  No, no, it's National Celery Month.  Celery and Ranch makes for good dipping buddies.  That's an almost healthy substitute for chips and dip.

Today's meditation - Judas didn't start out as a traitor.
Mark 14:20  "It is one of the Twelve," Jesus replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me."
2 Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.  Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you - unless, of course, you fail the test?

Happy National Cereal Day

If you don't like cereal, it's also National Celery Month, and National Peanut Month.

Cereal is another versatile food.  You can eat it dry straight out of the box or in a bowl with milk, hot or cold.  It's a great snack and easy to transport.  There are SO many cereal types.  Remember when Wheaties had different people's pictures on the box?  I guess they still do, I don't buy Wheaties and haven't noticed.  Another perk of cereal back in the day was the free and cheap toy offers on the back of the boxes.  I remember my mom sent away for a doll that had black hair just like mine (used to be).  Then there were the cereals with the prize hidden in the box.  Those created a scramble to find and snag the prize!  On a cold day, you could have oatmeal or cream of wheat.  We used to eat Kellogg's Corn Flakes with the big rooster on the box.  And when my kids came along Kellogg's was making Frosted Mini-Wheats with fruit in the middle.  Yum!  How many households feed their babies General Mills' Cheerios?  That cereal seems to be everywhere you go and it comes in so many different flavors now.  Remember Mikey who wouldn't eat anything?  What cereal was that?

What's your favorite cereal?  Do you eat it as a snack, in a bowl, as a coating or topping for another food?  Do you add fruit to your cereal?

Remember to move your clocks back an hour before you go to bed.  If it's 10 pm, the new time will be 11 pm.

Psalm 78:24 He (God) rained down manna for the people to eat, He gave them the grain of heaven.

Happy National Cheese Doodle Day

If you don't like cheese doodles, it's also National Frozen Food Month, National Peanut Month, and National Celery Month.  You can be as healthy or non-healthy as you choose.

Personally, I do like cheese doodles - puffed, crunchy, baked, round.  I think it's the cheese that's the draw.  National Day Calendar has these recipe suggestions for cheese doodle embellishments: "crush them up and use them as breading for fried fish" (how about chicken or topping a casserole?); "top homemade mac and cheese with crushed cheese doodles for added crunchy flavor."

What's your favorite cheesy snack?  I'll be munching cheese doodles today.