There are some of recipes I love and use often:
Christmas Float
1 can coke or Dr Pepper
3 scoops of ice cream – chocalote or vanilla
4 cherries
2 red and green gum drops
red and green M&M’s
whipped cream topping

Put ice cream in cup. pour soda on it. then add the whipped cream, cherries and candy.

Christmas Party Mints
1 (lb) pkg powdered sugar
1/2 C margarine, softened
2 T evaporated milk
4 to 5 drops of peppermint flavoring
Few drops of desired food coloring

1.Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Beat at high speed until well blended; then knead until smooth.
2.Shape mints in rubber candy molds, and place on baking sheets.
3.Cover with a paper towel, and let stand overnight to harden.

Makes: 8 1/2 to 9 dozen mints.

Father Christmas Salad
In traditional Christmas colors of green, white and red, this is full of seasonal good cheer.

1 can (15 oz/ 425 g) lychees in heavy syrup
1 can (15 oz/ 425 g) stoneless red cherries in syrup
4 tablespoons of Cointreau or Kirsch
1/2 oz/ 15 g unsalted pistachio nuts
Boiling water

1. Tip both fruits, with syrup, into a large dish; glass for preference so that the colors can show through.
2. Add liquer and toss gently yo mix.
3. Blanch pistachios by covering with boiling water and leaving for 1 minute. Drain and rinse under cold water.
4. Slide off skins then finely chop. Sprinkle over top of salad. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours before serving.

Obuevisly diet is a great thing if you want to… you know what you want:-) but don’t be so serious keeping your diet!:-)

If you eat something, and no one else sees you eat it, it has no calories.
When drinking a diet soda while eating a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are canceled by the diet soda.
When you eat with someone else, calories don’t count as long as you don’t eat more than they do.

Foods used for medicinal purposes never count. Example: hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee cheesecake.
If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.
Movie-related foods do not have calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one’s personal fuel.
Example: Milk Duds, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints and Tootsie Rolls.
Cookie pieces contain no calories, because of the process of breaking the cookie causes calorie leakage.
If you are in the process of preparing something, foods licked off knives and spoons have no calories.
Foods of the same color have the same number of calories. Examples: green salad and Key Lime pie, mushrooms and white chocolate.
If you eat the food off someone else’s plate, it doesn’t count.
If you eat standing up the calories all go to your feet and get walked off.
Food eaten at Christmas parties has no calories, courtesy of Santa.
A diet is a weigh of life.
It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.
It’s something most of us do religiously: We eat what we want and pray we don’t gain weight.
The problem with curbing our appetites is that most of us do it at the drive in window of McDonalds.
The most fattening thing you can put in an ice cream sundae is a spoon.
The biggest drawback to fasting for seven days is that it makes one weak.
Sweets are the destiny that shapes our ends.
Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
The toughest part of a diet isn’t watching what you eat. It’s watching what other people eat.
Diets are for women who not only kept their girlish figure bit doubled it.
A diet is when you have to go to some length to change your width.
Many women reduce and reduce, yet still never manage to become a bargain.
The best way to lose weight is by skipping … snacks and desert.
Most people gain weight by having intimate dinners for two…alone.
People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens.
A diet is the modern-day meal in which a family counts its calories instead of its blessings.
A diet is what you go on when not only can’t you fit into the store’s dresses, you can’t fit into the dressing room.
One guideline applies to fat and thin people alike: If you’re thin, don’t eat fast. If you’re fat, don’t eat – FAST.

If you are chocolate lover there are great number Chocolate events around the world you have chance to injoy. Do you know that a new study found that the risk of death from heart disease is about three times lower in heart attack survivors who eat chocolate at least two or more times a week compared with those who do not. That’s truth, therefore

Chocolate Challenge
February 6-7, 2010; City Hall Atrium, 10455 Armstrong Street
Applications are due by December 15. Click here for 2010 Chocolate Challenge Rules and Regulations.
Sponsored by the Independence Day Celebration Committee. Click here for information.

Description: A gallery of art and cakes made entirely of chocolate created by professionals and amateurs alike. Both judges and visitors will have an opportunity to judge the entries in numerous categories. Donated cakes and other items will be open for silent auction bidding. Past celebrity judges for this event include Warren Brown of CakeLove, Love Café and the Food Network’s Sugar Rush; Norman R. Davis and Zane Beg of The Sweet Life in Annandale, Va., who have appeared on multiple Food Network challenges; and City of Fairfax Mayor Robert F. Lederer.

Taste of Chocolate
February 6-7, 2010; Old Town Hall, 3999 University Drive
Applications are due by October 31. Click here for 2010 Taste of Chocolate Rules and Regulations.

Description: Surround yourself with hundreds of the finest chocolate sensations area confectioners have to offer! Goodies to sample include cakes, candies, brownies, fudge, ice cream and other delicious concoctions.