{"id":825,"date":"2012-11-21T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=825"},"modified":"2012-11-21T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:59:42","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a060 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is a tradition in our family for special occasions such as Thanksgiving and Christmas~that is Dessert. \u00a0Not that we have Dessert, that is a given. \u00a0But a specific Dessert. \u00a0Cherry Dessert. \u00a0It is a staple~and it is usually my responsibility to make it (I like to make cherry dessert by the way).<\/p>\n<p>I love Cherry Dessert but had never had it until I was married. \u00a0It was a favorite of my husband&#8217;s family and I was taught how to make it by my mother-in-law. \u00a0My husband and I introduced it to my family and it was an instant success, too. \u00a0So, it is now tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the day to make the Cherry Dessert. \u00a0First off is the graham cracker crust. \u00a0Yummy! (Today I used my food processor to make the graham cracker crumbs!) \u00a0Then you mix the cream cheese with the whipped cream and top the whole thing of with canned cherries. \u00a0Decadent!<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing was my helpers.<\/p>\n<p>When my kids were little they would fight over who got to lick the bowl, the spatula, the beaters&#8230;but the kids are grown and on their own now&#8230;so, enter Paxton. \u00a0Paxton was more than happy to take the kids&#8217; place! \u00a0He begged, he pleaded, he drooled, he groveled&#8230;and he was successful.<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-826\" title=\"Paxton helping clean up\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-002-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cherry dessert looks great and tomorrow will be the true test~the taste test. \u00a0It is a nasty job but someone has to do it!<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-827\" title=\"cherry dessert \" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cherry-dessert-003-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a060 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221; There is a tradition in our family for special occasions such as Thanksgiving and Christmas~that is Dessert. \u00a0Not that we have Dessert, that is a given. \u00a0But a specific Dessert. \u00a0Cherry Dessert. \u00a0It is a staple~and it is usually my responsibility to make it (I like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}