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 Well, so far I’ve been doing great on giving up the processed sugary sweets, snacks and desserts for Lent. I had a few days where I was shaky, but other than that, it’s been fine. I’m not craving sweets, and for the most part, I’m not having difficulty ignoring all the candies and goodies at … [read more]  We fell in love with mojitos when we had them this summer at Havana Rumba, a local Cuban restaurant. The food was really good, but their mojitos made quite an impression on us…so much so that we started making them ourselves at home. Here’s a picture of a mojito I made this evening. You start with … [read more]  I’ve been in the mood for pears lately, and initially, I was planning to make a pear cake. But I wanted something a little lighter so I decided to make some poached pears. There are many of interesting recipes out there, and most of them involved poaching the pears in red wine. I’m sure the … [read more]  Last night Kemal was in the mood for some kind of dessert made with bananas. We were looking at various recipes, but we were both really tired and wanted to make something simple. Kemal suggested that I try making some banana brownies. I’ve never heard of that before, but it sounded good…even better when we … [read more]  The place where we service our car every three months has an awesome manager and a great group of guys who not only are quite accommodating, but who are also very generous. On about three different occasions this year we’ve taken our car in for minor repairs, and they fixed them for us at no … [read more]  Krempita (pronounced krem-pee-tah), like Sampita which I made last week, is another popular Yugoslavian dessert, and it’s also one of my husband’s favorites. There are numerous ways to make this cake, and it seems the possibilities are endless. Last night Kemal found over 100 different recipes for krempita, and trying to choose which one we … [read more] |
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