Chocolate Sorbet

When I was growing up my grandmother made this dessert faithfully every summer. She called it chocolate snowball, which only people from Baltimore can truly understand, so I renamed it for the purpose of making it appeal to the masses. Because it should. It's easy to make, requires only two ingredients, and is FAT FREE. That's right, a fat free chocolate dessert. Here's how to make it:

1 can of Hershey's syrup (the regular is fat free, but I use light anyway)
2 cans of skim milk (use the can from the syrup)

*If you can't find cans of chocolate syrup just use a 1 cup measuring cup.

My Aunt Chotts makes this using a can of water and a can of milk for even less calories.

Step 1:Mix the syrup and the milk together in a shallow, freezer safe dish. I use my 9x9 cake pan.

Step 2: Freeze it until it's, well, frozen. This part takes several hours so I do it the night before

Step 3: Scrape the frozen chocolate out of the pan and into a cute cup.

My grandmother loved to serve it with vanilla ice cream. However, if you choose to do that (and who could blame you-it's delicious) it will no longer be a fat-free dessert.

Who doesn't love chocolate you don't have to feel guilty about eating?

Time-Crunched Moms

When I became a stay-at-home mom after a four year career as an elementary school teacher I thought it was going to mean having a lot more time to do things around the house, like organize closets, make homemade dinners, etc. Then reality set in and I realized that taking care of an infant and a toddler is actually much more demanding time-wise than having a full-time job that involved being the only adult in a room with 20+ children at a time.

I found myself feeling like a slacker for not baking homemade bread and making my own playdough and all of those other things I fantasized about having the time to do as a SAHM. Last weekend, when we could barely make it out the door on time with everyone showered to go to a cookout being hosted by my husband's family, I was kicking myself for not finding the time to whip up some coleslaw or eclairs or something else delicious and homemade. But the truth is that I could barely find five minutes that morning or the night before, which would obviously not have been enough time to make anything of the sort.

So I got to thinking that there should be a place where moms can go (and dads too, should they find the need) where they can find 5 minute solutions to everyday issues, like what to bring to a cookout as in my case, or birthday treats for Susie to take to the classroom and so on. My intention with this blog is to create such a space and help some of my fellow moms in the process.