Benefits of milk a topic on show

Information on pop-up cards, nutrition from milk and milk products, and making card projects with coloring pages will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.)

Pop-up cards are all the rage. Wombi Rose will show how to use paper cutouts and simple shapes to customize and personalize any card you choose. He’s from Boston, Massachusetts.

Registered dietitian and nutritionist Sarah Ryan explains that milk offers great nutrition, is a healthy meal addition and provides more nutrition than many of the power drinks on the market. While all beverages hydrate, milk provides important nutrients your body needs. She lives in Conroe, Texas.

Marjolaine Walker is a designer, and she’s going to show some card projects made with coloring pages. She’ll demonstrate using dual brush pens and the different ways to color with them. She’s from Ottawa, Canada.

Information on diabetes and obesity, strawberries, and making polymer clay magnets will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Author and chemist Shane Ellison will talk about diabetes and obesity as he explains that if you treat a person’s habits, you can treat his or her bad blood. He lives in Los Angeles.

With Florida strawberries, you can enjoy a taste of summer all winter long. Sue Harrell represents the Florida Strawberry Growers Assn., and she’ll talk about the growing season, selection, storage and much more as she prepares a strawberry/banana smoothie for a quick and healthy breakfast. Harrell lives in Plant City, Florida.

Becky Meverden is going to show how to make a polymer clay flower magnet, as well as show several other samples of items made with polymer clay. She is from White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

Chocolate covered strawberries

• 1 quart Florida strawberries

• 2 cups powdered sugar

• 3 Tbsp. margarine

• 1 bag (14 oz.) dark chocolate (Wilton brand is what I use)

• 3 Tbsp. light corn syrup

• 1/4 tsp. salt

Wash and let strawberries dry at room temperature. (Leave stems on berries.) Combine margarine, corn syrup, salt and powdered sugar; pat around berries. Place berries on cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Refrigerate for 2 hours be-fore dipping with chocolate. Melt chocolate in double boiler until thin. Dip strawberries in melted chocolate and place on clean wax paper until firm. Chocolate can be melted in microwave on defrost only if you do not have a double boiler. Put in microwavable dish for 6 to 8 minutes on defrost, stirring every 2 minutes until chocolate is completely melted. It may take longer, depending on microwave.

“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque.