New Recipies

Just for fun I decided to try something new. I started using a website my husband and the guys he works with use. Its called Allrecipes.com. You can go and find recipes. Imagine that! The other day I decided I was going to make banana bread. You know what terrible feeling when you have to many bananas and they are going bad?! Well here is a little trick. Freeze'm. If you freeze them you can thaw them when you get enough and make bread.

Without remembering to look at my recipe book I looked up a recipe on Allrecipes.com for banana bread. I was very suprised was not just bread but when I found a recipe for Banana Nut Oatmeal Bread. Cool huh. I tried it and it is REALLY REALLY good!!!!! And SO easy to make. I'd better be careful or I might have another 'commandment' on my hands. Ya see, the first time I made bread, I made a recipe that my husband's mom uses. It is this weird wheat germ corn meal thing and it is absolutely divine! Well I tried to make bread for the first time in my life and David promptly told me that it was a commandment.

You see, every time we run out of bread I am to make more. I followed said rule for about two months, and then fell off the band wagon. Maybe it is time to get back on. See I love cooking. I come from a long line of really really good cookers. Yes, cookers is a real word. In this however, I have rarely been able to perform the actual cooking. I have observed and 'helped' many many times and feel like I know how to do it, but when it comes right down to it I get worried that I will mess things up.

So far I have not totally destroyed the things which I cook, although have had a few 'mishaps.' Such as the time that I tried to make spaghetti, forgot about the sauce and ended up making a reduction (that was a first!!!) imagine my surprise when I learned that reductions also condense the amount of water, thereby making the amount of salt in said item very prominent. The next mistake happened with my first foreign food adventure. David tried some, emphasis on SOME and commented that they are much too salty. Oh well, more for me! My meringue cake....well he tried it, and everyone else said they liked it, but no one finished it.

After all of these mistakes I was scared to try again, but apparently my Paella is great. He even ate the leftovers! This is a first!!!! He never eats leftovers. So here we go again. I make banana nut bread (with my secret ingredient) and time will only tell what the reaction will be.