If you have more than 3 ripe bananas…. 1. Double your recipe and ~freeze one loaf or ~take a loaf to that neighbor you should have introduced yourself to months ago OR 2. Peel remaining bananas, break into chunks and freeze. Put 2 or 3 in a zip lock bag, then you can easily thaw [...]
I’m not sure why The Great Spirit in the Pie has it in for me, but I always manage to screw something up when it comes to baking. Most of you have, no doubt, tasted something great from my oven, Unfortunately, for every happy ending there are probably 15 flops. Sure, everyone has had some [...]
Don’t you just give a little sigh of relief right about now? The “HOLIDAYS” are over (almost…I mean, New Year’s Eve is mostly just fun and usually requires very few relatives). Those millions of last minutes errands are done. Not many things give quite as much relief as taking down all the Christmas decorative clutter. [...]
Last night’s dinner high was followed by the “morning-after” dishes blues. We were already backed up having run out of dishwasher detergent the evening before. And if you hadn’t picked up on it, I’m not the most disciplined dish-doer (although I’m vastly improved over the newlywed habit of leaving out the dirty dishes until they [...]
A couple of weeks ago, my husband performed a sort of miracle that only husband’s seem able to perform. It followed the usual guidelines for this type of miracle starting with a cook who was stumped on the night’s menu, necessitating a craving in my husband when asked what he wanted for dinner. The craving [...]
