Hi! Happy Memorial Day Weekend! We had a pretty uneventful ride to Cleveland yesterday, minus a bit of holiday traffic. Amelia Bedelia lasted all of five minutes in her crate before whining loud enough to be released. She was much happier reading Dog Fancy magazine on Louisa’s lap.   The weather is GORGEOUS in Cleveland [...]

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Morning! Pastry II was even better than Pastry I, if you can believe it . We made: Sweet potato pecan pie Cherry chocolate pistachio biscotti Pear almond ginger tart Chocolate lava cake Banana Fritters with mango coulis Of course (because when is it not!?) the chocolate lava cake was amaaaaazing. Intense, melt-in-your-mouth chocolately goodness. The technique was built [...]

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Good morning! So happy it’s Thursday already. Tomorrow, my sister, Grant and I are headed back to CLEVELAND and I can’t wait! Haven’t been home since February and it’s always nice to go back . I’ll be celebrating two fun events: my friend Katie’s bridal shower and my Dad’s birthday. So I better get my party [...]

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Delicious dinner last night. It was originally inspired by this recipe, although based on what ingredients I had on-hand it came out quite different. Different in a very delicious way, so I’ll take it! For my dish I used: 1 cup of polenta, prepared 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese salt and pepper 1 clove of garlic, minced 1 [...]

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Oh my, I am in love! My friend Anna first visited masa 14 a few weeks ago and has been raaaving about how good it was. So last night Anna and I, along with our friend Diana enjoyed a happy hour there. Of course we began with drinks! Anna and Diana had strawberry lemonades and I had [...]

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Morning! What a weekend. I can’t believe (as always) how quickly it flew. I have a new foodie blog love lately, foodgawker.com. The pictures are just delectable and it’s a great way to link to other food blog sites I’ve never seen before (there are a million!). The other day I saw the most beautiful picture [...]

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Oh my, pastry night was glorious. And the best part is, there’s a Part II next week! We learned a ton of different things: Madelines Mousse au Chocolat Creme Patissiere Roasted pineapple  Frangipane (tart filling) Pate Brisee Sucree Demonstration tastings: Madeline with sweet glaze. This was so puffy and wonderful. Like a little cake in cookie [...]

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I think I died and went to nut butter heaven last night! I’ve been dying to try these Nut Butter Crusted Fries ever since I first saw them. What could be better than a valid reason to eat peanut butter for dinner? (Besides peanut butter for breakfast and lunch too of course ).  So last night I gave it [...]

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Morning! I had the weirdest dream last night. In my dream, my alarm went off and all my clocks (because apparently I had several) said different times. I couldn’t figure out if I’d slept through this morning’s Body Pump class or not! I was in such a panic. It was one of those dreams where I [...]

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Last weekend my excuse was a missing USB cord, this weekend we had no Internet! Ugh. Sorry I keep disappearing. I do always keep snapping photos though, so let’s catch up. Friday night I met Joelle for supper. I’d suggested Founding Farmers (because when is that not a good idea) earlier in the day but [...]

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