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Recipe Time

This is an amazing recipe for pancakes! Costco has blackberries and blueberries and strawberries right now, but we made this recipe with blackberries only. It was awesome! We have to give credit to one of our local breakfast joints, The Nova Cafe. Jared had something similar last weekend so we tried to make our own.

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Lemon Curd and Fresh Raspberries
Recipe courtesy Bobby Flay - www.foodnetwork.com

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup ricotta cheese
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk (we used soy milk)
1 lemon, zested and juiced
Butter, for griddle
1 (11-ounce) jar prepared lemon curd (we used Lemon Curd Yogurt)
Fresh raspberries, for garnish (we used blackberries... I would suggest cutting them in half if they are the large berries and cooking some of them in with the batter and then adding fresh ones on top with the yogurt instead of syrup)

Combine flour, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and sugar in a small bowl. Whisk together the cheese, eggs, milk, lemon juice and zest in a large bowl. Whisk the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until just combined. Brush the hot griddle with butter. For each pancake, pour approximately 1/4 cup measure of the batter on the griddle and cook on both sides until light golden brown. Repeat until no batter remains.

Empty the contents of the lemon curd into a small saucepan and warm over low heat. Alternatively, remove the lid and place in a microwave oven on 50 percent power for 2 minutes, stopping after 1 minute to stir the curd. Drizzle a few tablespoons of the curd over the pancakes, top with fresh raspberries, and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

magazine heaven

For those of you who do not know, I work for a publishing company who publishes magazines around the western united states. I have been working on a redesign of a magazine that I will tell everyone about later... it is still a secret inside the company. Anyways, I have been browsing through different magazines to get ideas and I came across this magazine, ReadMade

If you are anything like me you should check this magazine out, the website is just as good as the magazine. I just purchased blueprints for building my own studio in our backyard!

children in the future?

This is why we do not have children, we would probably make the WRONG choices.

a typical day at work

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Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

Super Bowl XLII

Chopper Reed and our bathroom

This is what Montana will do to you. I think the cold weather and short gray days start to wear on a person's mind. This is how we ended our Friday night.... or maybe it was just the begining.

For those of you who have not seen our piece of art bathroom, here is the original medicine cabinet that we were able to salvage. Thanks to Jrad we have a new mirror in the door.

Here is our sink. My dad and I made the table out of an old cabinet door. It is much more impressive in person.

That was a lot of hair that came off of his head! Beautiful sink tho, huh?!

Here is along shot of the beautiful Italian Tavertine tile that I salvaged from Georges in SLC and river rock from the homestead in CDA.

This is a better shot of the tile and river rock floor

Here is a close up of my tile work on the shower wall.

And finally my tile/river rock shelve. This was not as easy as it looks to put together. AS you can see in the photo the tiles dont really match up like I wanted them to. "Whaddaya gona do"