Roasted Bananas Foster Pancakes

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Don’t you love when you stumble upon a simple kitchen tip that makes you go “aha”? I recently picked up such a trick from Robyn Webb, cookbook author and nutritionist, on her Fabulous Food Finds blog. Put a few bananas (peels and all) into a 350 degree oven and 20 minutes later you’ll have a [...]

Cardamom Pear Pancakes {Holiday Recipe Exchange}

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More kitchen results from Snowoctober. While it sure was winter weather over the weekend, we are pretty much back to lingering fall temperatures so I still feel legit participating in the current Holiday Recipe Exchange of “Fall Spices” (hosted by My Baking Addiction and GoodLife Eats and sponsored Spice Islands.) Even if I took these photos in the snow. Earlier [...]

Spicy Moroccan Hot Chocolate [Holiday Recipe Exchange]

Spicy hot chocolate tastes better in china tea cups. After 10 years of not using, we now use china every day, just because!

After a cold snap the end of September, during which I too hastily put away all kids’ short-sleeved-attire, the days here in Chicago have turned warmish. My poor children are roasting; requests for “a cool drink of water” are frequent. But the nights are still chilly. And once my three young ones are in bed, [...]