May 5, 2008

Bananas. Chocolate. Sugar. Not a bad way to start off a Monday morning, eh? After a long weekend of garage sale manual labor and a wedding shower, baking was not on my to-do list for Sunday night. But when I walked in the kitchen, there were those dark brown, almost black bananas staring back at me, just begging me to bake with them. Okay, fine. I’m such a pushover for banana bread.
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January 17, 2008
Our second year as bloggers started off with a homemade cake - not surprisingly a birthday cake
but nonetheless it was homemade. And as you know, Maxine made the cake, and I, just idly watched, read about, and tasted the fruits of her labor (which were absolutely delicious by the way).
But my point is: I don’t cook enough. I admit it. I don’t cook or bake or saute enough and now I’m here to tell you that for our blog’s second year in life, I plan to turn that all around. Now, I don’t want to call this a New Years resolution because no one has any hope for New Years resolutions and the last thing I want is for you to expect failure.
From now on, I plan to test recipes, recipes, and more recipes.
And what do you know? I just so happen to have one for you today. Last night I cooked up a miniature storm of sorts, so I actually have two recipes to review but I’ll save the other for tomorrow.
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