A Side of Sweet

Ricotta Oat Bran Pancakes Recipe

Highlights from this weekend:

Healthy and delicious ricotta oat bran pancakes (recipe below)
Time in our backyard park
Greek yogurt ice cream with fresh blackberries
Blooming tea
Our porch garden
Studying for my psychiatry shelf exam and Step 2 board certification exam
Spending time with my love

Ricotta Oat Bran Pancakes

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These pancakes are a favorite at our place. They are healthy and packed with protein – and most importantly – delicious!

Flashbacks to My Anatomy Course

While anatomy wasn’t one of my favorite courses in medical school, I still appreciate the complexity of the human body and how amazing it is that all those pieces fit together. Lisa Nilsson’s anatomical cross-sections are way better than a Netter textbook. See more of her amazing work here.

Pegged

As I was finishing a pilates class last night, a text from Pat popped up on my phone:

This was the enclosed picture*:

What can I say, the boy knows me!

*Just to be clear, that is lime sparkling water

Dulce de Leche Banana Cookies and Cream Bars {Fail}

As a surprise for Pat, I made these Dulce de Leche Banana Cookies and Cream Bars from Baker’s Royale. A combination of dulce de leche, vanilla oreos, sweetened condensed milk, bananas and pecans, I thought they sounded heavenly!

As we took our first bites, my face immediately fell. The bars were sickeningly sweet. Pat gamely tried to get through a few more bites before pushing the plate away and telling me he just couldn’t do it. This is coming from the man who can eat half a dozen donuts after a hard bike ride!

Needless to say, this is where the Dulce de Leche Banana Cookies and Cream Bars ended up:

I ran through the recipe to make sure I hadn’t done anything wrong. I can’t figure it out. I’m not sure that I’ve given up on the bars completely. They have the potential to be amazingly delicious if I can figure out a way to tone down the sweetness. Any ideas?

Delivery {Wedding}

I came home today to a stack of tree stump cuts that will be repurposed into cake stands! Pat snagged these from a nearby business that had just cut down a tree.

B-Cycle

This month’s Madison Magazine had a feature about Madison as a bike-friendly city. In one of the articles there was a photo of Pat and I from last fall when we did a B-Cycle photo shoot! I hope you can tell by the look on my face that I love the B-Cycle bike sharing program. You can read the full article here if you are interested.