I finally have a kitchen again.

It has only been 3 weeks since I was last able to cook or bake, but it's seemed like much longer. I don't ever want to eat fast food again.

We are now in the process of settling down in North Carolina - my kitchen is unpacked, the rest of the house, not so much. That will come with time. As long as I can make my own food I won't go completely crazy while the house is in shambles around me.

The husband and I thought it would be nice to bake something delicious to take to our new neighbors - there's no better foot to start out on than one that involves baked goods, eh? I decided to try out Alton Brown's recipe for blueberry muffins. They are delicious - not too sweet, just enough to really showcase the flavor of the blueberries. Were I not attempting to watch my girlish figure I would brush them with a lemon glaze just after taking them out of the oven.

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No 4th of July BBQ is complete without a tasty dessert, and the combination of lemon French yogurt cake, vanilla bean pastry cream, and fresh berries is hard to beat.

The handy thing about garnishing cute little individual tarts with fresh berries is that they are amazingly beautiful and look like you slaved in the kitchen for hours to complete - which is rarely ever the case. That being said, I'm ever the fan of delicious eats that look impressive and are in actuality so easy a trained chimp could make them.

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