Pancake Sunday is a time-honoured tradition in our little family.

We eat pancakes and we drink tea. Out of a pot.

People laughed at my hubbie and I when we told them that our beloved tradition of Pancake Sunday would not falter once we had babies.

But they didn't understand our love for this precious time together. Sure, what used to be about flicking through the papers leisurely has become a bit less...peaceful. Sometimes our pancakes get cold from juggling our two cherubs under two. But the sentiment is still there...

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I love me some craisins...whether they are spiked in oatmeal cookies for a bit of zing, tossed through summer salads, or just snacked upon with some almonds. Craisins are the bomb diggity! Never are they more scrumptious, however, than when they are combined with zesty orange in my moorish Cranberry Orange Muffins!

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Ever wanted to be someone you are not?

Heck, I do it all the time. Mostly, when I carry on in this manner, it is when I am trying to be decorative or artistic in any way. Sure, I can bake, but I just don't have the magic hands or patience required to make things look...'purty!" Never have I demonstrated my shortcomings any clearer than with my attempts to make pretty pink & lavender Cake Pops for my niece's recent birthday....

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A few years back my hubbie confirmed that if he were to ever leave me, it would not be for a younger, firmer, child-free model, but for an 84-year-old woman named Barbara Berman...Why, you ask? For her drool inducing self-named 'Darn Good Chocolate Cake.'

After having a "how could a cake make you want to throw away 14 good years" argument, I tried the cake. And I concurred. 

I too would leave my husband for this cake. And so began the quest for the recipe...

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After watching Sesame Street one morning with my little man, we spent much of the day growling, "Me want cookie!" So, late in the day when Milo said, "Mummy, cookie puhlease!" I knew what I had to do. I had to bake...copious amounts of C-O-O-K-I-E-S for my little Cookie Monster! Little did I know the gluttonous Cookie Monster had nothing on me...

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