Chocolate Banana Milkshake

July 29, 2010

Today we lunched under our umbrella on our deck — it was beautiful and sunny.

After eating, my four-year-old said he wanted a chocolate smoothie. What? Dessert in the middle of the day? Well, why not? I decided that maybe we'd skip dessert after dinner and go for it right then and there.

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Valentina's passion is food, and she loves spending time in her "kitchen retreat," as she refers to that room in her house. Valentina develops recipes for creative and comforting food that works perfectly for casual entertaining. Both her recipes and food photography have been featured many times on popular food websites and in print. Valentina shares her beautiful photographs as well as new and interesting recipes almost daily on her blog, Cooking on the Weekends.

Outside the worlds of food and photography, Valentina's other passion is her family (including her two young boys, her husband and her puppy, Maple.)

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