Peaches & Cream Recipe by Gina Meyers

 

Peaches N’ Cream

1 cup of coconut whip or 1 cup of heavy whipping cream

½ teaspoon of vanilla

4 medium peaches, halved and pitted

1 cup of sliced fresh strawberries

1 large banana, peeled and sliced

¼ cup of packed brown sugar, light or dark. Dash of cinnamon

Directions: In a small bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken or just use coconut whip. Add vanilla; beat until soft peaks form, arrange fruit on a platter and top with the whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar. May also want to add a little lemon juice.

This 4th of July, celebrate in style with Papagni Sangria.

 This 4th of July, celebrate in style with Papagni Sangria. 

1 bottle of Papagni Red Sangria

1 bottle Spanish cava, chilled (or sparkling apple juice)

Ice cubes, for serving

1/4 cup sliced strawberries

¼ cup of sliced oranges

⅛ cup of blueberries

¼ cup of sliced red and green apples (any variety)

8 mint leaves (optional)

2 Tablespoons of brandy (optional)

Directions: In a glass container, combine all ingredients except for the cava. Refrigerate a minimum of 1 hour, but at least 4 hours is recommended. To serve, pour sangria and a scoop of fruit into an ice-filled glass. Top with sparkling apple juice or cava, depending on preference.

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Thoughts on Reading Books by Gina Meyers

 

If there is a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.-Toni Morrison

Like what you eat, what you digest in the way of books plays a critical role in your emotional and mental health. I recently reread my cousin's small book, An Invitation to Change, and  borrowed a friend's The Four Agreements Book. Then I picked up and read a few pages of The Millionaire at Lunchtime, Suzanne Somers' Menopause Manual and then went onto the Millionaire Next Door and a fellow authors' book, the late Richard Parenti's Emotional Sobriety. So how do these things we read and digest help us navigate life? Thousands of people have lived before us and faced similar predicaments. We won't be the last and we certainly won't be the first, but we can BE the last person in our family to break the cycle of poverty, or the cycle of abuse. We can be the first to get a doctorate, or the first to learn the piano or the first to learn that life lessons aren't meant to hurt us, they are meant to teach us.