Last Wednesday, we had our grandparents here for dinner, and made them homemade pizza. Not much to tell there, as I’ve already done a post on pizza. <grin> Then, on Thursday, we went to a family birthday party. Our mom made an amazing Chicken & Wild Rice Soup but…that wasn’t us. So no new posts for last week’s cooking.
Tonight, we’re headed out to a (hopefully) delicious dinner at Arooji’s Wine Room. This is a first for me. 
So I thought I’d tell you about the incredible dessert parfait my sister and I put together earlier this week. As Adrian Monk would say, here’s what happened:
I had this really horrible mouth sore, and we all know the worst thing to do is eat ice cream or have a high liquid-sugar intake when you have a mouth sore. However, my mother taught me that one of the *best* things you can do for a mouth sore is eat plain yogurt that has live cultures and stuff in it. So my dessert parfait was layered like this: Honey Rice Puffins (gluten-free and really good cereal), a big spoonful of crunchy, salted, organic peanut butter from Trader Joe’s, a small squirt of caramel ice cream topping, more Honey Rice Puffins, two spoonfuls of plain yogurt, a sprinkling of heath bits, a few Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips, a douse of pure maple syrup for good measure.
I have one word for you: heaven. You should try it. My sister Christine is big on pairing unlikely flavors. A favorite joke between us is freshly cracked black pepper and raisins. 
P.S. – my mouth sore was healed the next day.
