IMPORTANT NOTE: at the bottom of this post I'll be introducing a new feature and need your input! Don't miss it!)
Happy Friday, all! Can you believe it's December already!? Oh goodness! (just between you and me, I have 12 gifts I'm MAKING this year and now that we're in December I'm beginning to feel the pressure... hmmm, if I can average at 1 gift every 1.83 days i SHOULD be okay... oh dear)
But gifts aside, let's talk about one of my OTHER favorite holiday past-times... entertaining! And what does every American host need for a successful Christmas party?
That's right... COFFEE!
We've highlighted Gobena Coffee before, but do you know just where the money used to purchase this coffee goes?
Straight to Ziway, Ethiopia where Gobena and Lifesong have partnered to...
1. Implement a Feeding Program (breakfast and lunch for over 300 students)
2. Develop a Christian School, adding two addition classes per year (after 5 years, that 1,050 students!)
3. Complete construction on a local church
4. Build and operate a group Home (providing a Christian home environment for 12 double orphans withEthiopian "houseparents")
5. Create a sustainable business for vocational/entrepreneurship training, to help break the cycle ofextreme poverty for these children.
These are the goals. Every bag of coffee(or t-shirt, or tote bag, or mug) helps!
Now you can't have a good cup of coffee without a yummy piece of dessert, right? So here's
what we're going to do...
(this is where i tell you about the exciting new feature)
Remember that cool little cookbook we introduced last week?
Well, starting next Thursday we're going to highlight one of its recipes every week... make it, taste it, review it... and there may even be some video and picture documentation of all the fun! We're calling it:
And for our first recipe we'll be doing a dessert! But I need to hear from you?
What recipe would you like us to feature?
Here are your options:
1. Oreo cheesecake (I have never made a cheesecake in my life so this could be interesting)
2. Honey cookies (My favorite Christmas cookie... a German tradition)
3. Apple Scrumptious (this makes the song "Truly Scrumptious" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang play in my head... which makes me "truly" happy)
or...
4. Baked Custard (no commentary here... other than I LOVE me some custard)
Let me know your vote... and the dessert that gets the most comments will be our very first Tasty Thursday Treats feature!
Have a beautiful (and maybe snowy?) weekend!
