Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are now off to a great start with all your New Year's resolutions. As a Christmas present to ourselves and as part of our New Year's resolution to get back in shape (I know, how cliche. . .) David and I bought a Breville Compact Juice Fountain and we've been juicing like crazy for the last week or so. The juice is certainly delicious, but now my cup and freezer overflowth with wonderful, fiber-filled fruit pulp that I am just too frugal to throw away. So just what do you do with all this squished up fruit? Well, I made muffins. Orange-Strawberry Muffins. They turned out to be a great tasting, nutritious little snacks. They get better the next day and they freeze well for a quick breakfast on the run.
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A stack of thin, tender crepes—drenched in lemon juice and blanketed in powdered sugar—is one of our favorite breakfasts and makes an appearance on our morning table at least once a week. These paper thin pancakes are one of those things that may take a little practice to master, I know it took me a few batches of crepes that were too thick in spots and crepes that were full of holes to get it right. But the good news is once you master the technique, these are super easy to make. Besides, I can assure you that the ugly crepes taste just as good as the pretty ones!
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A basket of sweet strawberries, yet another banana left on the counter for a day too long and an empty bottle of maple syrup. My kitchen muse most often comes in the mundane form of what ingredients are or are not on hand and what is in need of being used up NOW. But isn't that what being creative is all about? Using the mundane, boring things in life in a fresh way and making something beautiful or in this case delicious!
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