National Creamsicle Day

In case you don't know what a Creamsicle is: it is like an ice cream bar, but it is made with vanilla ice cream and coated with orange sherbet.  In case you've never had anything like that: it is something to put on your "Bucket List"!

I love eating a Creamsicle and have since I was but a young boy!  But, now that I'm older and wiser, (I hope wiser!) I have turned to making my own Creamsicle (well, sort of) by making this recipe:

Farmer Boy Orange Dream Float

Ingredients:

• Orange soda (I prefer Orange Crush*)
• Vanilla ice cream

Directions: Fill a large tumbler half way with the soda.  Scoop a large scoop or two of ice cream and drop it gently into the soda.  Then fill the remaining space with more soda.  Insert a straw and a long spoon.  Dive into the tumble anyway you see fit!  (I like to eat half the ice cream, then drink half the soda.  Then I like to stir the rest up and drink it.)

I hope you'll try this recipe and then leave a comment here, to let us all know what you thought of it.  Thanks.

"We can work our dreams into realities if we try, but we must be willing to make the effort." Laura Ingalls Wilder

* Note: Orange Crush was once bottled in Mansfield, MO!  Those bottles are now collector's items.  I wonder if Almanzo or Laura ever drank from those bottles!

The Old Man in the Bib Overalls