Apple Kumquat Bread

1/2 cup dry oats
1 cup dried apples, 1 flat tablespoon dried kumquats, blended coarsely
1/4 cup almond flour
2 heaping tablespoons nonfat dried yogurt
1 even tablespoon light cooking oil, (probably should have done 2)
1 t-spoon minced ginger, (should have done 2, couldn't taste the ginger)
Cinnamon, nutmeg
1/2 t-spoon baking powder

Split between 2 8" saute´pans.
350 degrees for 25 minutes. Next time I will either put something under the pans or try 325 degree, the bottom was a bit browner than I would have preferred, but not burnt.

Bread chocolate pudding

The other day I stumbled onto a web site with hundreds of bread pudding recipes. Let's do it.

3 slices of gluten free bread cut into cubes
15 chocolate covered dried figs blended, if you don't have chocolate covered figs, just add more chocolate
1/4 cup light oil (Costco Mediterranean)
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
8 oz. egg whites
2 seriously heaping tablespoons of nonfat yogurt
Cinamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract to taste

Stir, make sure to wet all the bread cubes, pour into oiled baking pan, 350 degrees for 30 minutes, cool slowly.

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My friends, the Bosmas are selling the house they own in Oregon. They say the market is really hot and if you know the right person, this could be great for all parties.

Chocolate Figgy Pudding

I bought some dark chocolate encrusted figs from Costco and they just weren't that good. So ......

1/2 cup oatmeal in the blender
12 chocolate covered figs
Heaping tablespoon of dried cherries
Blend
1/4 cup of dark chocolate nuggets
Blend a little bit, don't try to get to a powder
2 tablespoons of oil (Costco Mediterranean blend)
Pinch of sea salt, cinnamon, nutmeg
Teaspoon vanilla extract
Then I started stirring in egg white. Many of the figgy pudding recipes I looked at appear to be kind of breadish, like a very moist brownie. So I aimed for a consistency a bit thicker than pancake batter.
Pour a little oil in the baking container and rub it on the bottom and sides.
I had it in the oven for 20 minutes and it seemed like it was done.

I passed the HubSpot inbound marketing certification

Perhaps you have read two of the most influential social media battles of April 2016. Dan Lyons wrote a book and Linkedin post about his time at HubSpot. HubSpot wrote back. They are both excellent posts. Back when I worked in the realm of Information Warfare they would have served as a case study. But what is HubSpot? I had never heard of them. So I went to the site and frankly I am amazed. I ended up signing up for their marketing certification, learned a lot, had some things confirmed I believed to be true, (yes, I know, confirmation bias) and have a lot to think about. The certification, BTW, is one of the most incredibly well thought out marketing/sales programs, I have ever seen.