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Pecan Chocolate Cake – Atkins Diet

Dieting is not an easy task to keep up with, but worse yet, what do you do about celebrating a Birthday, and you need a special cake for the occasion. How about a cake for someone on Atkins Diet (high fat and extremely low carbs), which means no sugar and no flour……a couple of main ingredients you always use in making cakes!

Google.com to the rescue!! I found a real nice recipe for a Sugar Free Pecan Chocolate Cake, but I was quite skeptical about the outcome of this project….cake without flour or real sugar…only sugar substitutes….??? Would it taste like chocolate flavored cardboard??? Would it be very dense? Would it be very flat???

July Blooms – My Suburban Garden

It’s hard to believe that July is already passing us by…..where has the time gone….???

July was a beautiful month this year; not too hot and not too cold. Perfect weather for blooming flowers.

Here are my blooms from July:

Kalmar Nyckel – A Little Piece of Wilmington

I think I am still considered a “newbie” to Delaware, or at least I feel like one, especially after reading a post about the adventures of “Kalmar Nickel”, on one of my favoriteblogs which I follow regularly, http://www.mysuzyhomemaker.com/2009/07/kalmar-nyckelweekend-of-food-and-fun.html. Here is a short insert from her post, to get you started:

Special Birthdays – Humor

This is a very memorable year in many different ways, and there is no need for me to make a list, since everyone is glued to the daily news, thus well aware of it all.

I wanted to add some humor to lighten things up a little, so here are some pictures of the latest Special Birthdays: