Couple of days ago, I ran across an old Pinterest link for a recipe that used only two ingredients: a spice cake mix, and a small can of pumpkin. Whaaat? So I tried it — and it was fantastic. Very moist and tasty.

Well, last night, while stumbling around on StumbleUpon before bed, I found an article on Buzz Feed, featuring some insane 2-ingredient dishes. These jumped out at me:

1. Nutella + Eggs = Flourless Nutella Cake

2. White Chocolate Chips + Oreos = Cookies n’ Cream Oreo Bark

What say? Should I get started this weekend?

You don’t need the Kitchen Ninja to make this awesome power-smoothie. If you have a blender, you’re good.

Yesterday, I tried the Ninja for the first time, and what a home run, wow. It took, seriously, no longer than about 7 seconds to make a perfectly-blended smoothie — no stopping to stir, no scraping the sides down, no chipping with a knife at the bottom, nothin’.

The recipe was for a strawberry-banana drink, but I was out of strawberries. So I improvised, and this is what I came up with. It was dandy, I must say.

Black Raspberry-Banana Smoothie

1/2 cup each blackberries, raspberries, vanilla yogurt and Diet Sprite
1/2 banana
About a cup of smallish ice cubes (maybe 6 regular sized)
Handful of pecan halves

Schlep it all in there and zoom. It made two smoothies, so I froze one and slurped it this morning.

LEKKER

Now I’m off to the school house…Yay!  Truthfully, it feels OK to be back at it. I need a routine.

I’ve tried one, but not the other. Yet.

A couple of weeks ago, Mavis and I were in Wally, doing some grocering. We were both thirsty and talking about getting a drink on the way out of the store when we happened upon a center-aisle display of something called Sparkling Ice, in tall, slim, attractive bottles (about the size of the old fashioned Pepsi bottles we used to buy) for a dollar each. Have you tried it? We each bought one and boy, were they tasty.

Last week, I ordered some stuff for a baby shower I’m attending soon. One of the sites where I placed an order was hawking a deal on a corn dog baker — that is, you can have your corn dog without deep frying it. I thought, “Hmm. Worth a try for that price,” so I bought it. It arrived Saturday and I am looking forward to trying it tonight.

Now I have to try it.

I mean, who says a chocolate cake recipe is “life changing?” The comment posters at Taste Spotting, that’s who. Well, we’ll just have to see about that. When my work is done today, I am going to make this chocolate cake, and post it on The Comfort Foodie blog.

Don’t get me wrong: I love cake. Almost any kind of cake. Chocolate is #1, of course, but give me carrot, spice, lemon, sponge, cheese, strawberry, white, yellow, green, purple or orange, and I will eat it. Relish it, even. I. Love. Cake. It makes me go like this.

It also makes me somewhat picky. I know what I like in the way of mouth feel, aftertaste, frosting pairing, and what the hoity-toitys call chocolate “notes.” But in a pinch, you could put two inches of icing on a sponge and I’d fight my way through it. I just love cake. Are you picking up what I’m laying down here?

So prepare your eyeballs for some chocolaty photo goodness over at TCF later on.

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Anyway, time to shut this thing down and finish some choreography (will it never, ever end?) so I can hit the grocery and bake up some yummy. Have a great Saturnday, mes amis.

Over ‘n out.