More Random Food Pictures

A friend from work gave Madeline a Madeleine pan for her birthday and since we're trying to incorporate meal planning and preparation into James and Madeline's weekly chores, we decided we needed to make a special dessert. Here is our creation, Madeleines (aren't they pretty?) with vanilla pudding, bananas and fresh strawberries (hand-delivered from California by Aunt Stehle):

And here is Jamie's gourmet breakfast-for-dinner, puff pastry eggs benedict:

For Easter we had chocolate mousse in white chocolate cups (made by blowing up water balloons and dunking them in melted chocolate which involves much red-faced puffing and intermittent yelps when the balloons pop by accident. Alan was highly amused.)...

...and, of course, the traditional carrot cake which tasted remarkably good considering the fact that a third of the batch was either raw or burned (hence it's two-layered-ness as opposed to the three I was aiming for):

You weren't expecting healthy food, were you??