Home At Last! with Patty Gironda

This has to be one of the most expensive luxury items in America today! A moist bite of cake encased in a thick icing! Not sure that it made the grade!

I adore semolina bread and it amazes me that I am able to get so many delicious meals from one easy recipe. I have worked diligently on perfecting this recipe for over two years! I love that I now have the perfect toasting loaf as well as a tasty flatbread or cracker dough. Last night I tried my recipe on a flatbread with no sauce. The flavorful flatbread derived it's salty goodness from freshly-grated Asiago cheese, garlic oil, cracked black pepper and kosher salt on top of my hand-stretched dough. The spinach was tossed lightly in olive oil and added to the dough along with black olives! The final topping was a few handfuls of romano cheese and a generous sprinkle of cayenne pepper. The results-FABULOUS! Thinly-sliced toasted semolina bread with strawberry preserves provided breakfast "afterglow"!

Casa Bella Bed and Breakfast enjoyed the company of Bed and Breakfast "newbies" last night! We have always enjoyed the responsibility of "breaking in" newbies but Dannie and Stephanie were particularly delightful. Dannie arranged for Stephanie to show up at designated locations texted between cell phones and all Stephanie had to do was show up and enjoy! Tough life, huh, girls?! Our Bed and Breakfast was a little bit of a mystery since we don't display very large signs in Newnan. Three balloons were hung on the mailbox to mark the spot and she pulled in somewhat hesitantly! Their getaway evening was enjoyable according to both. . .Stephanie enjoyed a relaxing spa treatment, read a book by the pool, dinner out, dessert in and a quiet evening alone in Guestroom Tre. Breakfast was our wonderful pan-fried bread pudding with fresh peaches and raspberry syrup. Tried it myself! Yummy! We even packed each of them a breakfast sandwich to go along with Ron's Peanut ...