Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times
Family Christmas RECIPE
Trifle tops ’taters as favourite
L
ivia Mior has a lot on her plate since returning this fall to head up the advertising sales team at The TIMES. Despite her new management duties, there’s always time for people – and especially for her family. As a Maple Ridge resident and mother of two, she is totally Maddie Mior psyched about helped out her Christmas, and lookmother, offering ing forward to creatto disolve Jell-O ing some new tradcrystals for the itions this year – both trifle. at home and at work. When asked about sharing a favourite Christmas recipe from her past, Mior puzzled. “I am seriously trying to think of a family tradition – I think we were big on mashed potatoes,” Sarah Mior is she laughed. “Too easy?” a big fan of Instead, she picked a the whipping Christmas favourite that’s cream that just a little more complex, goes into but equally more tasty. her mother’s “My favourite is a tradtrifle. itional trifle dessert,” she said. “I still make it for my kids, but my recipe is a bit loose – especially with the brandy.” Always the proverbial kidder, she added, “Sometimes, there’s none left for the trifle.”
Mior trifle Ingredients: 2 boxes Jell-O – I use red or raspberry 1 sponge cake 1 can fruit cocktail 1 tub Cool Whip Boil 2 cups water and dissolve Jell-O crystals, pour in fruit cocktail (including the syrup). Pour this over torn apart sponge cake and refrigerate for at least six to eight hours and add whip cream on top. “Delicious! My best Christmas memory.” – Livia Mior TIMES advertising sales manager