Deviled Eggs

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And my crazy continues to rein supreme around these parts, which mean I have not been cooking at all these past weeks.  Unless I can post how to make a awesome grilled cheese.  Let me know, because that is what we been eating for the past weeks.

But, I promise that I’m getting back to cooking.

Soon.

But, we been trying our hardest to have some fun.

Case in point.

Trying to run away from the scorching heat that we are experiencing here in Florida, this past Saturday we joined my very good friend Steph from Kitchen Kilometers and woke up at an unholy hour to hit the road early and headed north to enjoy floating down a very cold freezing Florida spring in a flotation device.

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Bombolini filled with Vanilla Cream

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Yes, this is a double whammy because you are getting another donut post.  After Tom laid praises on the Sweet Potato Donuts, I made the mistake of telling him, that the Bombolini would have been ten times better and he totally dared me to prove it.

He knows I cannot resist dates.  And I totally fell for it too.

I still stand behind my statement before that donuts are not one of my favorite sweets.  But the Bombolini holds a special place in my taste memory.

See, I have been eating these pillows of fried dough, filled with cream, since I can remember. In Venezuela, my mother would buy a big bag of them as a special treat from our local bakery as I was growing up.  My sister and I would gobble them up in seconds, licking our sugar-coated fingers and then wait patiently for the next special occasion to have them.

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GCC: Menu 23 - English Muffins

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You know when you have every intention to do something.  You plan it, you set reminders for it, you HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT.

But, for some unknown reason, you just cannot, for the life of you, complete it.

Enter our choice last week of Gutsy Cooks Club.  English Muffins from scratch and then you take those muffins and make the ultimate dish that said muffins were made for.  Egg Benedicts.

As you can see, the English Muffins part got DONE.

The egg benedict part? NOT DONE.

Can I give myself a C+ for effort?

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