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I'll admit it, I'm a fan of Mr. T.  I used to watch the A-Team as a k...

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Geez, I feel like its been a month since I've blogged... oh wait, it H...

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I love Pasta Alla Carbonara. It is one of my favorite things to eat wh...

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One of my "themes" for this blog is simplicity.  I like to make simpl...

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This is what  said when I took my first bite of this decadent flourle...

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Hello from Deutschland!!!  We're currently in Frankfurt, Germany visi...

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I'm sure most of my loyal blog followers thought I fell off of the ear...

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The daring baker challenge this month was cheesecake.  We were given ...

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Growing up, I loved chicken pot pie night.  I thought it was soooo yu...

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Now that my vacations are 0ver, I'm putting my time back into the good...

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I've noticed every time we return home from our annual visit to German...

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When I saw the Daring Bakers challenge this month, I was stoked!  As ...

Buttermilk Banana Pecan Pancakes

Every since I had Banana Bacon pancakes at The Bongo Room in Chicago, I’ve been daydreaming about it. The other morning, I really wanted to try making something similar. Well, sadly, I didn’t have bacon, so I decided on pecans instead for a little crunch.  So As I started cooking, I realized I was out of all purpose flour. Doh! However, I had cake flour. I was concerned that the cake flour would have turned out badly, but my craving for the pancakes was stronger than my concern for the flour. Believe it or not… these were the tastiest pancakes I’ve ever made.  I think I’ll always make my pancakes with cake flour from now on!
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Squash and Zucchini Tart

The other day, I really felt like cooking. We’ve been so busy lately, that I haven’t even had time to feel like cooking, much less actually cook something. Thank god I live in Ft Lauderdale and am surrounded by really great restaurants or we would have starved!

I found this recipe in the Tribecca Grill Cookbook. Of course, I changed most of it… lol!  What I like most about the recipe, other than it being very healthy and low fat is the simple preparation, but totally fancy presentation.  Just up my alley.

I also used this opportunity to use my new knife from New West Knife Works.  I’m in love with this knife… not only is it gorgeous with the multicolored wooden handle, but boy is it sharp.  Just a great knife.
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My Rolls Are Sweet

My husband is a total soccer addict (or as his European peeps calls it… “football”.) He watched pretty much every game during the world cup. Luckily we have our own photography business and tons of flexibility or he might not have a job anymore!  He’s of course cheered for his fatherland of Germany.  We went over to a friend’s house for breakfast and the Italy-New Zealand game and I decided to make some cinnamon rolls.  This made me realize we should have breakfast parties more often.  Or maybe we could do breakfast at dinner parties.  Either way makes me happy!

I found this recipe in a big stack of recipes torn out of magazines… so I’m not sure which one this came from, but it is simple and good.  I made a few adaptions… like cream cheese glaze.  What’s not to like?
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On the road again…

So we’ve been traveling. A lot. In the past month, we’ve been to Chicago, Germany, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Philadelphia and New York. Some of the travel was for our business, Maloman Photographers, doing photo shoots and photographing weddings. But the bulk of it was for vacation. A much needed one too. Needless to say I’ve been eating in many different restaurants.  I tried to take notes so I could share with you all for future travels.

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Blueberries galore

After traveling for the past month and a half or so, we’re back home and I’m back in the kitchen.  I actually missed cooking… weird eh? I have a blog post already written about my travels (with lots of restaurant recs) but still have to go through all the photos we took.  A few of the places we visited in May and June are Chicago, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels, New York and Philadelphia.  Will be blogging it soon!

It’s blueberry season! This week we’ve had blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins and many big ole bowls of blueberries. They really are one of the best snacks… healthy AND yummy!  This is a combination of my favorite streusel recipe (from my Turkey day sweet potato casserole) and favorite muffin recipe (from The Joy of Cooking.)  This is NOT one of those healthy muffins, but one that is cake like and addicting.  So what’s not to like? { Read the rest }