I'm It! Here's My Six-Word Memoir.

Grace of Grace Today tagged me so I'm it and I'm running after you!This is the very first tag on Joy Of Desserts. Thank you so much Grace! Thank you for also adding me to your blogroll. :-) I so appreciate being on blogrolls and being tagged.Grace invites you to her blog, saying, “My eyes view the world just a little bit differently. Let's see what we can smile about or ponder while we enjoy

Thirteen Favorite Ingredients For Desserts

In France, thirteen is a very lucky number. People will buy lottery tickets, especially on a Friday the thirteenth!! So, I have no fear or phobia about the carnival. If you don't either, go visit Thursday 13 and their participants.

Vanilla; especially the beans. They come from beautiful orchids too. When using extract, these days we need to be careful that there isn't any corn syrup added

The Fruit Of Happiness

This is a fruit seller in India. I found the picture in Flickr's public files.For more participants in Word-Filled Wednesday,visit Amy at The 160 Acre Woods.God Bless.

Over Ripe Bananas Make Wonderful Jams

Here's the SeCond banana recipe as a gift to those who are honoring this blog with awards. Today, it's an authentic French recipe for Banana Jam. It's for Kathryn at 4urpets and every one else who already loves this new blog after just two short weeks. Just scroll down or click on the link if you missed yesterday's super moist Banana Yogurt Cake with cream cheese icing. It was a yummy recipe

Banana Yogurt Cake To Celebrate The Royal Banana Blog Yumminess Award

Woo Hoo! I'm going bananas over my first blog award! Mercedes has honored Joy of Desserts with The Royal Banana Blog Yumminess Award and I'm celebrating with a Banana Yogurt Cake and participating in her cake edition of Scrumptious Sunday. I'm so excited to get an award and to get it so quickly. This blog is only a couple of weeks old. Thank you, Mercedes!!And to pass along the blog love, I

Happy Easter To All!!

Wishing you and yours a Happy and Blessed Easter!!France is a Catholic country, so the Bells From Rome scatter the Easter chocolate for the children to go egg hunting. The children wait for the television to broadcast the Bells' arrival and as soon as they hear them ring, they rush out to their Paris balconies or their suburban or country backyards to see what the Bells have brought them. The

Simple Sugar Syrup Replaces Corn Syrup

Stop using corn syrup! Your health and weight gain depend on it. I like to use the best, all-natural ingredients which are the least processed as possible. Corn syrup may be made from corn, but it is processed by man so much that it becomes bad for our health.Research even shows connections to infertility, abnormally high weight gain, anger and even death. It's very difficult to escape corn