Allison Cafe

Ok, so it’s a cheesy title for this post, but I couldn’t resist. One of my passions in life is making tasty smoothies. This is one of my favorite ways to get several servings of fruit and some protein each day.

Tasty and healthy

Smoothies can be made with just about any fruit. This is a great way to use fruit that is ripe and you aren’t sure if you can eat it all before it goes bad. Just chop it up, put it in a Ziploc bag and toss it in the freezer. When it’s time to make a smoothie, you’ll have fresh fruit. (See some fun facts below about strawberries to learn about this power fruit.)

Tip: I always freeze my fruit for smoothies because it gives a thicker consistency to the smoothie; think milkshake instead of juice. Yum! Cutting and freezing the fruit ahead of time is a great time saving tip too.

Here is one of my favorite smoothies below. (more…)

For those of you using WordPress to power your blog, I thought I would answer a great question I received recently.

How do you add images to your sidebar to create a “currently reading” section?

WordPress offers several widgets that you can install to meet your image needs, however, if you are looking to do something very simple I will share a quick tip with you. You’ll notice on the sidebar of this blog that there is a simple image of a book cover with the heading “I’m Reading Now”.  Using the already built in “Text” widget for my sidebar I was able to insert some simple HTML code into the text widget to create this image. (more…)