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Treasured Valentine Recipes to Share With Your Little Ones

Sweet for the sweet is the theme of Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is the best time to spend the day in the kitchen creating time honored snacks with the little ones.

White chocolate with dark chocolate swirls will be a wonderful treat for a Valentine Day dessert buffet. Kids like chocolate and strawberries. The combination makes for a yummy and fun activity.
Red Strawberries & White chocolate fondue

Ingredients:

* 1 cup whipping cream
* 10 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped
* 2 oz white chocolate, chopped
* Fruit to fresh strawberries, sliced bananas, orange
* Sara Lee Pound cake cubed

Instructions:

1. Pour the whipping cream into a small saucepan
place over medium heat.
2. Bring cream just to a simmer
3. Remove from heat.
4. Add the semisweet chocolate and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth.
5.Transfer mixture to a small ceramic fondue pot over a tea light candle.
6.Sprinkle the chopped white chocolate over the dark chocolate mixture.
7.Let stand for a minute or two to allow it to melt
8. Gently run a spoon through the mixture two or three times, just until marbled.
9. Serve with strawberries, and other fresh fruit and chunks of cake for dipping.

Valentine Day Cupcakes
A special treat to serve on Valentine's Day

INGREDIENTS:

* Red Velvet Cake Mix
* Cream Cheese Frosting
* Cinnamon Hearts
* Heart shaped cake molds

Instructions:

1. Make your cupcake batter according to the package directions
2. Pour into cupcake cups in the cupcake pan.
3. Frost and decorate with cinnamon hearts.

These cookies are so easy, even the tiniest of helpers can participate in the excitement. Quick assembly and cooling is all that is required.

Valentine Day Cookies

Ingredients:

* 1 box Vanilla wafer cookies
* 1 pkg. Round pretzels
* 1 bag of Hershey's Kisses
* 1 box Candy hearts
* 1 8oz Valentine M&M candies

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Place vanilla wafer cookies 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Set a Hershey's chocolate Kiss on the center of each cookie.
4. Bake at 200 degrees for 5 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and gently press an M&M candy or a candy heart into the center of the softened Hershey's Kiss.

Allow to cool completely to let the chocolate harden again. You can cool in the refrigerator, but the chocolate will soften again after coming out of the refrigerator. Just allow them to sit long enough to harden up again.

Valentine Day PRETZELS

Place pretzels 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Place a Hershey's chocolate Kiss in the center of each pretzel and bake for 5 minutes.
Remove from the oven and gently press an M&M candy or candy heart into the center of the softened chocolate.

When pushing down you may want to wiggle the chocolate around a little to fill in any gaps between the chocolate and the pretzel. This will help the chocolate adhere to the pretzel. Allow to cool completely.

Next time you are looking for Valentine's Day recipes or any day you want to make something special with or for your children, pull out these recipes and give them a try.

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I have two 10 inch plecos in my 55gal tank, should i continue to feed them algae wafers?

The tank is spotless but i think that they have grown to starve if i dont feed them the special extra algae wafer food

Pleco should be supplemented with the algae wafers, but at this size should be offered frozen or freeze dried foods as well. Your plecos will reach 24" each if properly cared for, and if not provided with hiding places or a good balanced diet will begin attacking other fish in the tank. They also become territorial as they mature, and will fight one another as well.

And to whom ever suggested it.....Fish no matter what (sp.) DO NOT GROW TO THE SIZE OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT!! I have rescued fish from people who firmly believed this myth, and after their death autopsy revealed that their inner organs continued to grow causing internal bleeding, and crushing of their heart.
While the growth of their 'body' may appear to be restricted they are still growing from within. It is cruel to assume that a fish forced to live in a restricted environment is natural and healthy for the fish. The 'growth restriction' observed by the ignorant is not caused by the tank walls, rather it is by the waste and ammonia that these continually growing fish produce. Which consequently burns their gills, and very slowly, and painfully, kills the fish.
They are animals just like any other creature, and deserve proper care. More so than any other animal because of their specialized 'aquatic lifestyle.'

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