meltation: my new word for melting snow (just cuz it sounds weird)

i know i'm late!

i was going to post this yesterday i swear!

but procrastination (mainly attributed to laziness) got the best of me.

actually, i didn't want to post anything until i got this done.

we were wandering through the store getting root beer floats

...when yours truly had a brain blast!

and this amazing stop-motion film was born!

don't laugh.

we may be 20 years old but we still like playing with playdough.

so i don't always finish the bananas i buy...

and so i have random bananas in the freezer.

i think my roommates hate me.

but i got rid of most of them yesterday!

(there are only 2 left now...)

oatmeal banana bread (or cake)

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cup rolled oats

1 tsp baking soda

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 heaping tsp ground cinnamon

3-4 ripe bananas, mashed

1/3 cup apple sauce

1/4 cup coconut oil

2 eggs

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp vanilla extract

pinch of sea salt

preheat oven to 350

in a mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt and cinnamon)

in a separate bowl mix together the remaining ingredients until thoroughly mixed

mix the wet into the dry

mix until well blended

grease a 9x13 in pan

pour batter into the pan and distribute evenly with a spatula

place in the middle of the oven and bake for 40 minutes or until lightly brown on top, firm to the touch and a toothpick comes out clean

option: chocolate chips! add about 1/2 cup once batter is mixed. that turns this from banana bread into banana cake... (i'm pretty sure that it was cake to begin with...)

so somewhat healthy... i kicked myself after i made it because i made it with white flour and i had whole wheat flower in my cupboard the whole time!

blast!

til we meet again mr. banana bread...

we also threw these little puppies together.

you really can't go wrong with martha stewart.

ever.

i just bought her comfort foods cookbook online... i haven't had the chance to try it yet, but i was looking over the recipes in there and salivating even more every time i turned the page.

cook books are not good for me.

you enable a alcoholic by buying them a drink, you give me a cookbook and i'm sunk.

just leave me alone for the next few hours cuz i'm a gonner!

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i love good poetry!

try this... or this... or the best play in the world.

and the coolest condiment

(and best color) in the whole universe!

i used to hate it.

but now i love it!

(i also went to d.i. yesterday.)

it was bad.

but ooooooooh so good!

but more about that later...