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Baking a Flourless Chocolate Cake with Kyra

Kyra, my ten year old granddaughter, is becoming quite the chef. She is a devoted Food Network watcher and loves to help her Mom in the kitchen.  I recently made a visit to her home in New Jersey  and while her parents we out, we got to baking. I adored spending time with her this way and we were proud of our finished product.

Our finished Flourless Chocolate Cake
Our finished Flourless Chocolate Cake
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Louisiana Food Fantasy

A traveler in Louisiana will find a fantasy of food choices among Cajun and Creole cuisine , including casual or elegant.  The southern state receives a bounty of seafood from the Gulf and numerous dishes feature fish or shellfish, but watch out – many are fried. Don’t leave Louisiana without tasting beignets, boudin, Bananas Foster, cafe au lait, cracklins, crawfish, etouffee, gumbo, Hoppin John, Hurricanes, King Cake, Oysters Rockefeller, Po Boys, pralines and of course, Tabasco sauce.

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