The Kitchen is My Playground Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe Chef Dolores used The Kitchen is My Playground Chocolate Banana Bread Recipe and we really enjoyed it. You may wish to give it a try. Click on the link to view and print the recipe.With its combination of overripe bananas, baking cocoa, and chocolate chips, this tasty Chocolate Banana Bread is simply loaded with fabulous chocolate-banana flavor. Orchid, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania USA IMG 1287Canon PowerShot G11 CameraPhotograph by Roy KelleyRoy and Dolores Kelley Photographs 05/25/2022

Book Recommendation: The Diamond Eye by Kate QuinnI enjoyed reading The Diamond Eye (2022), a work of historical fiction based on a true story, by California author Kate Quinn, and highly recommend this selection for your reading list. Click on the links to learn more about the author and this novel.About the Book In the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from t... 05/26/2022

Trader Joe's Florentine Lasagna When Chef Dolores was shopping at our local Trader Joe's store, she picked up a package of Trader Joe's Florentine Lasagna for our dinner at home. We enjoyed it and she will get it again.  Tender pasta sheets layered between spinach, a blend of cheese, garlic, and herbs. Sold in the frozen section. 350 calories per serving, and around 3.5 servings per container. Serving size: 1 cup. Can be cooked in a microwave or conventional oven. Ingredients: milk, spinach, water, enriched durum wheat flour, parmesan cheese, ricotta cheese, unbleached enriched flour, provolone cheese, onion, garlic, canola oil, cream, wheat starch, eggs, sage, rosemary, basil, salt, romano cheese, pecorino romano cheese, extra virgin olive oil, black pepper, nutmeg, parsley, lemon juic... 05/24/2022

Montgomery County Commission for Women 50th Anniversary Picnic This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Montgomery County Commission for Women (CFW). We invite you to celebrate with us on Sunday, June 5, 2022 from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. at the Wheaton Regional Park!RSVP is appreciated at https://cfw50.eventbrite.comThis is a Montgomery County, Maryland announcement. Orchid, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania USA IMG 1284Canon PowerShot G11 CameraPhotograph by Roy KelleyRoy and Dolores Kelley Photographs 05/24/2022

Gaithersburg Street Lighting ProgramThrough its street lighting program, Gaithersburg provides well-lit streets that increases safety for both pedestrians and drivers, helps to suppress crime, and increases street capacities. Need to report a street light outage? Explore our interactive street light map here.This is a City of Gaithersburg, Maryland announcement. Orchids, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania USA IMG 1283Canon PowerShot G11 CameraPhotograph by Roy KelleyRoy and Dolores Kelley Photographs  05/23/2022

Book Recommendation: Dream Town by David BaldacciI enjoyed reading Dream Town, the latest of three Aloysius Archer novels by David Baldacci. Click on the links to learn more about the author and this book. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series.  It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone ca... 05/23/2022

Gaithersburg Recycling Tip: Ceramic & Clay Flower Pots  Are you starting your garden? Do you have last year’s flower pots that you don’t know what to do with? Don’t throw these in your recycling! Download the @RecycleCoachApp  and use the ‘What Goes Where’ search tool to find out what other gardening supplies are recyclable!This is a City of Gaithersburg, Maryland announcement.Gaithersburg Recycle Coach Orchids, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania USA IMG 1280Canon PowerShot G11 CameraPhotograph by Roy KelleyRoy and Dolores Kelley Photographs 05/21/2022