Today I thought I would have a simple, laid back Saturday with my husband and daughter. However, as my daughter destroyed the house and my husband with good intentions put on his work boots to go outside then promptly grabbed the throw on the couch and took a nap, I decided that sitting on the couch today wasn't for me. My husband, bless his pea-pickin' heart, brought home about 20lbs of overripe bananas from the locally owned grocery store a few months back. Let us rewind to that before I move forward with today's story.
My husband is probably the best junk man I know. He can leave to get one thing and come back with three more free because he talked the people out of them, or on the other hand found them on his way home. In January/February sometime, I decided to use up some bananas I had and made some homemade yummy banana bread. I enjoyed making it, it made the house smell wonderful, and it was so delicious it was literally gone in 3 days. Well, husband decided he liked it so much that when he went to the grocery store to pick something up for himself a few days later he talked the manager out of all the brown overripe bananas they had. Which equated to about 20lbs+ worth. So now an entire rack in my stand up deep freezer is stuffed full of brown bananas in grocery bags that I am STILL trying to get rid of. Joy.
But I digress. Today I decided to whip out the KitchenAid stand mixer (not really, it's always on the counter-my trophy, haha) and some of the frozen bananas to make some more banana nut bread. I have plenty of baking ingredients and of course ample bananas so I decided I would make two loaves and give the other to my neighbor. I used the banana bread recipe I favor most with a few modifications, including using whole wheat flour, increasing the bananas to 3 1/2 large bananas for each loaf (makes moist and helps with the gumminess sometimes associated with whole wheat), and adding 1/4 c toasted chopped walnuts plus 1tsp organic Madagascar vanilla. The results were phenomenal as usual, I have used this recipe before and really enjoyed it. I did not substitute the butter for applesauce, but I should have. However, even the tot was enthralled with her own little slice of 'bwead'.
Other than breadmaking, I also took some time to fix the spice jars on my fridge. The flat business card magnets kept sliding off so I decided I would steal my husband's marine grade 5200 epoxy adhesive and glue those things on there forever. They are on the counter drying as we speak, husband said it would take about 24 hours for it to cure fully and I don't want to ruin that or have to do it over yet AGAIN. I did manage to update the blog on those that is pinned on Pinterest so those having the same problem as me would not feel bad simply because I didn't express having that problem and my solution.
I can't seem to sleep well at night so tonight I tried a little meditation and relaxation. It worked as long as I was sitting here doing it, but the minute I put the laptop away and went to bed, my mind started racing again. Now I'm up, it's midnight yet again, and I'm watching reruns of CatDog and Kenan & Kel on TeenNick 90's kids. Hopefully this hot chamomile tea and honey will help me relax a little more and finally drift off. I know this little baby girl in my tummy sure likes to roll when I lay down to sleep too, hehe.
Dinner tonight was cheeseburgers for the husband and kid, and a tomato and avocado sandwich for me. Italian blend veggies with honey and Tabasco soy sauce. Caesar pasta salad. Yep, that's it.
Well that was my day! Hopefully you all are enjoying your weekend! Happy eating!
