Chef Santosh Tiptur heads the kitchen at Washington, D.C.'s only coffee and chocolate lounge, Co Co Sala. He shared a really fun recipe with me that my kids now love.

Makes up to 6 servings

4 tablespoons Nutella

2 8-inch flour tortillas (regular or whole wheat)

1 Rice Krispies Treats bar cut into 8 pieces (store-bought or homemade)

Dried cranberries, raisins, chopped nuts, M&Ms, sweetened coconut flakes, mini- marshmallows or other toppings (optional)

Sea salt

Melted butter

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A young pop-rock group on the cusp of a promising journey beyond its Pacific Northwest home, The Globes just released a moody but spirited full-length debut called Future Self. Formed in Spokane while its members were still teenagers, the group moved to Seattle just a few years ago and hooked up with the Barsuk label, whose tradition of sweet, smart, propulsive pop music houses The Globes' sound comfortably.

Soma Rathore of www.ecurry.com makes these lovely swirls that my family is now addicted to. Her advice on handling puff pastry: Do not allow the sheets to get too soft, or it will be difficult to work with them. If they do get too soft, chill them in the refrigerator for a few minutes.

Makes about 12 swirls

3 sheets store-bought puff pastry (each strip/sheet approximately 2 1/2-by-12 inches)

3/4 cup Nutella

I am an avid reader of Sala Kannan's blog, Veggie Belly, and when she told me she had a recipe for Nutella ice cream, I just had to try it.

Makes about 3/4 quart

1 cup whole milk

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons instant espresso

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

3/4 cup Nutella

Congress is gearing up for another show vote.

Last week, Democrats in the Senate forced Republicans to vote on a House GOP proposal that would make controversial changes to Medicare. On Tuesday, the Republicans who run the House are forcing Democrats to vote on raising the debt ceiling without addressing the deficit spending that drove up the debt.

That vote, too, is bound to fail — which is precisely what Republicans want.

Ratko Mladic has been extradited to The Hague to face trial. The Bosnian Serb general is accused of genocide and war crimes carried out by forces under his command during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

President Obama announced his pick for a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Monday: Army Chief of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey. For more on the chairman's role and what Dempsey's selection means, Michele Norris speaks to Peter Feaver. He is a political science professor at Duke University and the author of several books on civil-military relations.

Elections in Tunisia and Egypt will be taking place over the next couple of months. The Islamist parties in both countries, which had previously been banned, are becoming powerful political forces of the post-revolutionary landscape. Robert Siegel talks with Michele Dunne, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin, about who these groups are — and how they might perform in the elections.

Flood waters in Montana are rising and heading toward population centers. Deep snowpack melting in the northern Rocky Mountains is the main cause. Some communities are under several feet of water. Others are bracing for rising rivers, and a handful of towns are in cleanup mode. Federal emergency management officials are on the ground Tuesday and the governor is mobilizing the state's national guard troops.

When a group of Libyan rebels got hold of a radio belonging to the Libyan military, they had some fun at their enemy's expense and sent a very pointed message to the forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi.