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Wordless Wednesday: My First Baby

I love them!

That is all.

Tulips!

Jeff and I went to the same Tulip Festival that we went to last year today. It was fun! The best part was that it's dog friendly, so Nandi got to go along with us. She had a blast and lots of love from strangers. : ) Here are the pictures that made the blog cut (there are more on facebook). They're all straight out of the camera without any editing.

































Isn't Nandi a super cute tulip?

P.S. In case you were wondering, the ducky races were incident free, unlike 2009. ; )

Unexpected French Kisses

We have an awesome pet store. I absolutely adore the staff, and the store is cute. It's a small local franchise. They only carry good food. Our store pulls random cats from the local animal shelter and sets them up in their window display cattery. The cats get out of the shelter environment and get to live in a cool setup where they can people watch, play with toys, and relax. People see the cats and want to adopt them. It's win-win. Nandi loves visiting the store.

Today, we were picking up some food for the local shelter. (Thank you, Nature's Variety for your buy one, get one free coupon. Some animals at Bonnie Hays just got bonus food and will be very happy!). Nandi and I were checking out the food in the aisle, and we heard:

*squeeeeeee!*

"Mommy! Can I pet the pretty dog with the pink lips?"

"I don't know, honey, you need to ask first," his mom answered.

"Lady, can I pet your dog please? She's very pink!" this little boy asked me.

"Of course! Just let me have her sit first. And watch out because she likes to give kisses, OK?" I said.

"Kisses?! My dog won't give kiss----" the little boy started to say, before he was interrupted and thoroughly smooched by Nandi.

*uncontrollable giggles*

Yep, Nandi totally French kissed a little boy that was about 4. : ) On the upside, he thought it was great. And his Mom was cool with it, too, because she requested some kisses.

It made Nan's day!

White Chocolate Bread Pudding Will Cause World Peace

Try it!

Recipe from the Palace Cafe: Claims to serve 8, but halving the recipe has served about 8 of my Oregon Besties, so those must be ginormous servings!

For the bread pudding:

• 3 cups heavy whipping cream
• 10 ounces white chocolate
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 8 egg yolks
• 1 loaf French bread, cut into one inch cubes or into 1/4 inch slices
  

Heat the cream in a double boiler and add the white chocolate; when the chocolate is melted, remove from heat.

In a double boiler, heat the milk, sugar, eggs and egg yolks until warm. Blend the egg mixture into the cream and chocolate mixture.

Place the bread in an oven-safe dish. Pour 1/2 of the mixture over the bread and let settle for a while, making sure the bread soaks up all the mixture. Top with the rest of the mixture. Cover and bake at 275 degrees for 1 hour. Remove the cover and bake for an additional 15 minutes until the top is golden brown.

For the white chocolate sauce:

• 8 ounces white chocolate
• 3 ounces heavy cream

Gently melt the white chocolate in a double boiler. Remove from heat and mix in heavy cream. Spoon over bread pudding.

You could use any kind of chocolate for the chocolate sauce. Or use some Irish Cream or White Chocolate Irish Cream with the cream to spike it a bit.