Porthos' first kill

haha..his first real bone I meant..from the butcher of course :)

Porthos' Awards

Videos

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Porthos

Doesn't he look funny? Every Saturday we take him to Petsmart to weigh him. Today he weighed 51.9 lbs.Yesyerday he was 4 months old :)

Latest pictures of my babies

Pictures taken on November 7.It was a beautiful day outside and we definitely enjoyed it!

More Brownie Cheesecake Pictures

I actually never cared about cheesecake until a few weeks ago when I discovered this recipe. The taste is amazing!

clown cake

I had forgotten about these pictures...my first attempt to decorate a cake :)
As I have said before, I just can't decorate, but the cake was so moist and delicious..
ohh...and another thing...this cake was made out of a box :O ...I know, I know, I'm shocked too, but I needed a "fast" cake so I could focus on decorating

Brownie Cheesecake

I found this recipe in the new issue of " Taste of Home" magazine. It didn't turn out exactly as in the magazine (yet), but I'll make it again and again until it turns out right.It is very tasty though. The "bad" part is that this thing is so rich, that you can only eat a small slice at a time. I "might"post the step-by-step recipe with pictures and everything...but I won't do it now...

this is the original recipe in the "Taste of Home" magazine...as you see, my cheesecake didn't turn out exactly like that one :(

Porthos and me

My dogue de bordeaux puppy is growing very fast. He is exactly 12 weeks old today and 30 lbs! The color of his eyes is changing, the color of his coat is changing...wellll...he's become a big boy :)

Apple "Pizza"

Why do I called this pizza? Because it looks like a pizza, you built it like a pizza...and also I cut it with a pizza cutter :D . It is very easy to make and sooo delicious!

We need pie dough (preferably homemade!), some 3-4 tart apples (like granny smith), sugar,(dark)brown sugar, cinnamon (I use "regular" cinnamon and saigon cinnamon which looks a little different and has a more powerfull flavor), unsalted butter, and and oven of course. We also need some 2 tablespoons of appricot preserves for a glossy finishing.

First we make the pie dough. It is easy to make and well worth it. I "might" post the recipe for the dough some time soon, but it is so easy to find a recipe online. Just google it :)

  Then, we roll it (well, it should be like a 14x10 regtangular, and 1/4 inch thickness, but I just didn't have the heart to cut the dough so I left in in that "oval" shape). We put the dough in a cookie pan. I also use perchament paper for easy clean-up.

   
    Then we prepare the apples.

    We put the apples on the dough in a diagonal (or whatever way you want)

  

Then we add a little less than 1/2 sugar (and by all means, if you have a sweet tooth add more..whereas people who don't like their stuff really sweet should add less sugar).

   Then some brown sugar. I use dark brown sugar for that molasses taste, but I don't put much.

   Then the cinnamom. We can't make this without the cinnamon.

    And finaly, we add some butter on top...around 1/4 cup. If you use store bought pie dough, I wouldn't put much if any butter as the store bought dough has already a ton of fat in it and the pizza would come out too greasy.

     Then we put it in the preheated oven at 350 F for about an hour. I get mine out the oven after 50 minutes.

     And it looks something like this when it comes out the oven

     We mix the appricot preserves with a tablespoon of water,put in the microwave for like 20 seconds then brush the mixture on top the pizza. And we can cut it up and eeeeeat it!