Best White Hot Chocolate Recipe
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, here’s the best white hot chocolate recipe for you and your loved ones.
Adapted from Country Living
Best White Hot Chocolate Recipe
Ingredients
4 c. whole milk
12 oz. white chocolate, broken into pieces
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1/8 tsp. kosher salt
Pink gel food coloring (optional)
Canned Whipped Cream
Instructions
- Combine milk, chocolate, vanilla, and salt in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until mixture is hot and chocolate is melted and smooth (do not let boil), 6 to 8 minutes.
- Pour hot chocolate into mugs, top with whipped cream, and enjoy!
No-Bake Peppermint Pie Recipe
This no-bake peppermint pie is easy to make and assemble and will satisfy any cravings for peppermint goodies you may have during this festive season.
Adapted from Easy Budget Recipes
No-Bake Peppermint Pie
Ingredients
1 store bought Oreo crust
2 3.3 oz boxes instant white chocolate pudding mix (Note: Cheesecake or vanilla flavors of instant pudding are also alternatives if you don’t want white chocolate)
2 cups cold milk
½ teaspoon peppermint extract
1 8 oz container Cool Whip topping, thawed
Red food coloring, optional
1 candy cane, crushed
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together pudding mixes and milk until smooth and creamy.
- Whisk in peppermint extract and food coloring (if using).
- Use a rubber scraper to fold in half of the Cool Whip.
- Carefully spread the mixture into the prepared crust. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- Spread the remaining whipped topping to the top of the pie and sprinkle with a crushed candy cane.
- Serve immediately or place in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Easy Butterscotch Lush Recipe
As we approach the holiday season, it is nice to have delicious, no bake dessert recipes that are easy to make with basic kitchen tools. Whether you’re spending Thanksgiving with family or friends, or just want a special dessert all to yourself, here is a simple recipe for your senior living kitchen.
Adapted from Simple Sweet Recipes
Butterscotch Lush
Ingredients:
1 graham cracker crust
1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
3 cups heavy cream
¼ cup sugar
2 ½ cups milk
2 small packages butterscotch instant pudding
3 Tablespoons powdered sugar
Optional Toppings:
Butterscotch Ice Cream Topping
Shaved Chocolate Bar
Instructions:
- Use a hand mixer to beat cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add in 2 cups of the heavy cream and beat until stiff peaks form. Layer over the graham cracker crust.
- Beat together milk and pudding mix. If too thick, add a little more milk. You want it thicker than traditional pudding, but not so thick you can’t pour or smooth your pudding layer. Spread over cream cheese layer.
- Beat the remaining 1 cup of heavy cream and powdered sugar until soft peaks form. Spread over pudding layer.
- Chill 4 hours in the refrigerator or until set.
- When ready to serve, you can drizzle warmed butterscotch topping across the top and sprinkle with shaved chocolate pieces.
Arizona Senior Moving Review
Arizona Senior Moving is COVID-19 Prevention & Safety Certified
Arizona Senior Moving Company is pleased to announce that we have successfully completed certification in COVID-19 Prevention & Safety Excellence for Senior Moving Companies.
This certification and training is specifically for moving companies that specialize in moving Seniors. It includes COVID-19 Safety Protocols for:
- Senior Community and Apartment Safety
- Employee Safety
- Face Masks, Gloves and Protective Gear (PPE)
- Equipment Sanitizing and Disinfecting
- And more…
We have already been following governmental and community safety guidelines. To help assure peace of mind for communities, clients and employees, we decided to complete formal training and receive certification. You can confidently recommend Arizona Senior Moving Company knowing we are committed to providing your residents with a safe, healthy, peaceful move.
If you have any questions at all, please contact us at 602-620-9941.
Why Use A Senior Moving Company?
Just the thought of moving or downsizing can bring on feelings of being overwhelmed for all of us. For seniors or the adult child of seniors, the challenges can feel even greater. All the decisions on what belongings to keep, what might go to other family members or be donated, what furniture and other belongings will fit in my new home? All these questions and many more can be a heavy weight leaving us with not knowing where to start.
Many adult children of seniors are busy with their own lives and careers or living far away in another state, so that even though they would like to help their parents with the downsizing or rightsizing process, they are unable to. Where can families or seniors turn to for help that will provide compassionate respect for sorting through years of memories while still moving through the needed steps in an efficient manner that still gets the job done respectfully?
The answer: A SENIOR MOVING COMPANY
Fortunately, a Senior Moving Company can provide tremendous assistance and objectivity for seniors or adult children who find themselves at a point in life where they really need to right size to remain in their current home, or actually move to a new, smaller home.
A Senior Moving Company has specialized staff members that are expert project managers who work with seniors to provide the needed assistance to navigate through the right-sizing or downsizing process. The Senior Moving Company staff member will help with planning for your new home setup, sorting, organizing and dispersing of household items not needed, set up and supervise the actual moving day, pack the original home and unpack and setup at your new home and then make sure your original home is sparkling clean and staged to sell at the best price.
Senior Moving Company staff can also help remove a tremendous amount of stress for all involved by providing expert advice and then ensuring all the many necessary, complex steps are executed in a thoughtful manner leading to a peaceful move for seniors.
As mentioned above, there are several steps involved in the process that a Senior Moving Company can provide significant problem solving and assistance with which we at Arizona Senior Moving Company cover on our website and in several of our blog posts.
Home Cleaning and Home Staging: It’s important!
Home Cleanup
Arizona Transitions Senior Move Managers and staff will also provide your house with professional cleaning that will leave your house sparkling clean and ready for sale. We also have Certified Home Staging professionals on staff that will use your existing furniture or rented furnishings to set your home up so that it appeals to the highest number of potential buyers.
The cleaning component consists of many items including wiping down all ceiling fans and heating/ac vents, wiping down walls, doors and baseboards, wiping down all light fixtures, light switches and switch plates, cleaning the entire kitchen and bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming all hard floors and carpets, mopping all hard floors, professional window cleaning as necessary and also professional carpet cleaning.
This will leave your house noticeably cleaner than most of the other houses on the market and also make it look better taken care of.
Home Staging for Sale
There are many statistics that conclude that even partial staging of a home will typically help it sell faster including a few highlights below from the National Association of Realtors:
- 77% of Buyers’ agents said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a future home.
- Staging the living room for buyers was found to be most important (55 percent), followed by staging the master bedroom (51 percent), and staging the kitchen (41 percent).
- Thirty-eight percent of sellers’ agents said they stage all sellers’ homes prior to listing them for sale.
- The most common rooms that are staged include the living room (83 percent), kitchen (76 percent), master bedroom (69 percent), and the dining room (66 percent).
Arizona Transitions believes staging your home is as important as cleaning it. Time and again, a properly staged home sells more quickly and at top dollar when the home is staged properly.
What To Do With All of Our Belongings?
Sorting and Dispersing
Having a Senior Move Manager assist you with sorting and organizing all your belongings and things you have collected over the years will be a great benefit for you. They will provide extensive experience and care in the best ways and methods to use to proceed through your belongings in a manner that is compassionate about the process of sorting through memories while respecting your budget and completing the job in an efficient manner. The Senior Moving Manager will also keep an inventory of all your household goods to ensure safe delivery and accounting for each item.
As part of the Sorting and Organizing process, the Senior Move Manager will help you make decisions on what items will be relocated to family members or friends, what items will be donated, possible items for sale and the items that will need to be disposed of. They will also supervise the process and set up the logistics for making sure each item gets to its intended destination.