Everyday Food for Busy People
I have a confession. I don’t always use the bananas that get too ripe on my counter. I watch them spot and darken and shrivel. Then, instead of baking them into banana bread, I throw them away. There. Now you know the kind of person I am.
But the other day, I did rescue some old bananas from certain garbage. I wasn’t in the mood for Banana Bread or Cream Cheese Banana Bread with Orange Glaze, so I did a search on Tasty Kitchen and came up with this recipe.
My Dad is one of 10 children in his family. As the story goes, he was purely spoiled by his older sister, Gerry. She coddled him, carried him and catered to him. And he was ornery. He and his brothers once cut the middle out of a cake she made. They spread icing back over the hole so that no one knew until the cake was cut into.
For some unknown reason, she let him live. Not only that, but she occassionally baked up a batch of his favorite Pineapple Cookies.
These are what happens when a desire to visit Disney World collides with a chocolate craving on a plain old Sunday afternoon. I found the recipe while buzzing around allears.net , a fantastic resource for planning or dreaming about a Disney trip. These brownies are made at the Boardwalk Bakery. I’ve never eaten the real deal, so I can’t tell you how close they come, but I can tell you they were fudgy, chocolatey and they didn’t last long.
A perfect summer dessert. The cake is moist and just sweet enough to really showcase the flavor of the blueberries. This is a variation of the Cranberry Upside Down Cake that I made in December.
My mother-in-law makes the best strawberry pie (and peach using the same recipe). The crust reminds me of sugar cookies and the glaze enhances the flavor of the strawberries and makes the pie look as good as it tastes.