breathe and bake.

Holy moly.

I just... I feel like my taste buds were just given a hand shake.

Listen to my tale.

There they were, four bananas, hanging from a... banana hanger. For days neglected. Easter made their existence unknown and/or forgotten. Spotty, they became. Into a pie, I made them.

Good story. Thanks.

For real, though. I debated on making some banana bread or some banana bars but... I felt a pie was in order because the last bananas I used in baking some bread didn't get eat. Pie stands no chance in my abode.

I found a few different recipes and just did what I thought best. And... nom nom nom. Ta-da.

yours truly.

Chocolate Cookie Crust...

1.5 (or so) cups of smushed chocolate cookies (I used a cheap off brand of oreo's. D-lish).

3 tbsp melted butter

mix it all together, press into a 9 inch pie plate, bake at 350 for about 12 minutes. take out and cool it.

ok?

Le Pie....

1/2 cup sugar

1/3 cup cornstarch

1/4 tsp salt

2 cups of milk

3 egg yolks

2 tbsp butter (or margarine)

1.5 tsp vanilla

3.5 ripe nanners

combine sugar, cornstarch and salt in a medium sauce pan over medium heat. add in the milk while whiskin...with a whisk. Do this until it thickens and almost begins to bubble. Take off the heat. Add a little bit of that into your three egg yolks that you've whisked previously in a small bowl. Then add that yolky mixture back into the pot. Cook for about 2 minutes on the heat again. Remove from heat. Throw in your vanilla and butter (or margarine) and mix it. Let it sit while you slice up your bananas.

Place a layer of slices bananas on top of your cooled crust. Mix in the remaining bananas with your puddin mixture (I kinda mashed mine all together. It was chunkay...yet... smooth). Pour atop your crust. Let it chill on the counter for like...30 minutes. Then cover it and put it in the fridge.

I topped mine with some leftover cookie crumbness goodness. When I ate a piece, I dolloped some whipped cream on that beach and ate it.

Seriously? Delicious. Why would I ever make a banana bread when I could make... a banana pie?

Also, I need to remind myself to not eat any kind of beans past a certain time. Say... 2 or 3 in the afternoon. I ate them as my taco filling last night about 7:30 and my stomach has been so.. Off since.

Word... to the wise. Don't eat beans past 2 !

Today was beautiful. Everything about it was beautiful.

I woke up at 7. Ate some fruit and yogurt. Got coffee and some cantaloup at Panera with my parents and headed to church. Today was the first time I've been to church in a long while (I need to change this). I went to my grandparents and spent the afternoon eating good foods and playing golf (or trying).

A cake was requested to be made by me from my grandmother, so bake a cake, I did.

I used this recipe by the Bakers Daughter.

My grandparents live right across a field, so we headed home about five. I walked some left over cake to the neighbors and spent some time with Candy, looking around her garden (which is ridiculously beautiful. I want a peach tree).

I was just feeling the need for some green so I plated up some spinach, three spears of asparagus, and some salsa. I'm drinking coffee and watching the Lord Of the Rings. I ... am happy.

I wish days like this happened more often. Though, if they did, I'm not sure they'd be so desirable.