Most of us grew up hearing, "If you don't clean your plate, you can't have any dessert." Now we know if portions are too large, we may be wise to save some for another meal. So where does that leave dessert?
A dessert typically is defined as a dish or course served at the end of a meal. Many definitions say it is usually, although not always, a sweet dish. Using the Dietary Guideline's recommendation, Welcome Home has found how to get the most nutrition out of our calories, that way we can we have our dessert and eat it,
too? Baseball legend Yogi Berra is noted for saying, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Even when it come to desserts, "moderation in all things" is a safe place to eat.
Do you like homemade Pecan Pie? You can bake a perfect pie every time right in your own kitchen. We recently found the Great San Saba River Pecan Company at the International Housewares show in Chicago. They do things the old fashion way, you can't huury good taste so they make sure quality goes into each and every product. Halogen cooking is the latest in saving us calories when we cook. Check out the Morningware Cooking System from Welcome Home that was shot on-location at the International Housewares Show in Chicago. Click on the TV to the left to view the segment.
After a nice home cooked meal, you might have a sweet tooth. How about a Jelly Bean. The great-great jelly bean ancestor first appeared in the 1800s, but jelly candies of one kind or another have been around for thousands of years. "Turkish delight," a citrus, honey and rose water jell, has been putting smiles on kids' faces since biblical times.
When the penny candy craze came along in America during the late 1800's, candy makers began experimenting with tricky sugar candies. The jelly candy inspired by Turkish delight was shaped into a bean and given a soft shell using a French process called "panning". The first jelly bean was created by an American candymaker whose name has since been lost in time.
Although the penny candy boom waned a bit when America fell in love with chocolate in the early 1900's, there was a real chocolate shortage when most chocolate went to overseas troops during World War II. So, patriotic Americans once again discovered their urge for non-chocolate sweet treats like the common candy store jelly beans. A furor arose when people tasted Jelly Belly beans for the first time. Wow, what flavor! Soon Jelly Belly became the favorite candy of Ronald Reagan, who eventually made the beans a staple in the Oval Office and on Air Force One after he was elected president. President Reagan's passion for jelly beans inspired Blueberry flavor, which was cooked up so he could serve red, white, and blue beans at his inaugural parties. Diplomats and world leaders clamored to have Jelly Belly beans. And guess what? Jelly Belly was also the first jelly bean in outer space. Free floating, weightless Jelly Belly beans were sent on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 as a presidential surprise for the astronauts. Coincidentally it was the same mission that boasted another bit of history -- the first American female astronaut, Sally Ride. Today, Jelly Belly is the world's #1 gourmet jelly bean, the bean of choice for all those with the most discerning taste, and made in 50 amazing and tasty flavors.