Banana Bread Heaven

Okay...so I try to eat healthy most of the time, but occasionally I indulge my really big, fat, sweet tooth! My wonderful friend Carol was kind enough to have dinner and dessert (which also turned out be our breakfast for two days) waiting for us when we landed in Germany. The dinner was wonderful, but the dessert took the cake, or in this case the bread! The banana bread. Not just any old banana bread; cookies and cream banana bread made with chunks of Oreo's!! Carol is a woman after my own heart! In fact I would say that this banana bread is the second most wonderful thing I've EVER EATEN, next only to Cold Stone Creamery's "Birthday Cake Remix" ice cream. (If you haven't tried that either, go to your nearest Cold Stone... immediately!)

Since devouring the entire loaf in two days (I had plenty of help from a toddler with a sweet tooth apparently as big as mine), I have been craving this stuff! Not just an ordinary craving, but a craving so intense that it has consumed my thoughts to the point that I lay in bed at night wishing I had a loaf in the kitchen. I didn't even have cravings this serious when I was pregnant!! That's sad. I know! I kept putting it off, thinking that eventually the craving would just go away. Apparently not! It's been two weeks and my mouth is watering as I type!

I finally gave in and went surfing the internet for the recipe to my own little slice of heaven. I found it! I went to the commissary and bought all the ingredients to bake it. Now they're just sitting in the pantry waiting for me to craft them into my masterpiece.

Like I need those calories! My husband is coming home in less than a month. Most women would be inducing self starvation or at least noshing on carrots and celery and hitting the gym to tighten up all those little "problem" areas that no one's touched for the last 15 months. Not me. Instead I'm intaking more calories by the end of breakfast than I should have eaten all day! Something is wrong with my brain, or maybe my appetite. Either way, I'm rendered helpless by dough in a loaf pan!

To ease some of my guilt, I'm passing on the recipe to you. Please, don't leave me alone in my gluttony! Bake a loaf over the weekend and sit back as it disappears. Let me know how long yours lasts! Enjoy!

http://www.picky-palate.com/2009/03/naughty-little-cookies-and-cream-banana.html

Blogging Virgin

So...

I'm totally new to this whole blogging phenomenon. I'm a blogging virgin! Until recently I've sworn off reading blogs, posting blogs, facebook, myspace, and anything else that was part of this new age communication. What ever happened to good ole' fashioned letter writing?

Oh...that's right...we're an instant pudding kind of society. We want what we want, and we want it NOW! Just pour in the milk, stir for 2 minutes and put a spoon in it, it's done! So, I've decided to join the rest of you, and reluctantly, join the craze. "It's the 21st century Jordan, get with the program!"

One of the fears that kept me from it until now was that I would bore you to tears! What did I possibly have to say; what was so interesting about my life that you would actually care to know? I still don't have an answer to that question, but I'm sure that at the very least my family will care. I do have a 15 month old, so I'm sure he'll provide me with some good material. And a husband with no sense of direction. We live in Europe, people. Trust me, our adventures together will entertain you! I hope!

So here I am at midnight, (like I have any business pecking away at a keyboard) when I should be enjoying my sleep...a precious commodity when you have a baby. And, it's all for your reading pleasure. So, you'd better be reading! More to come...