so. today. i have a confession to make. a wifefession of sorts, because i think my husband would change this if he could… but… i love baking… SO much more than i love cooking.
there’s just something so cozy about it. cozy and sweet! and though, in one of my ideal worlds, i would stay completely away from refined sugar and bleached flour… in my other ideal world… i would be that lady throwing fluffy baked goods in everyone’s faces with a kitchen that smelled like vanilla. and i’m sure i would have quiiite the tushy to pat just beneath the tie of my cute apron! so, i try to keep a good squelch on that lady… but that lady cannot resist some overly ripe bananas when they are calling out to be made into bready goods. i love the mixing and pouring and smelling of baked goods. i love tasting batter as i go! and i love waking up to them the next day.
two nights ago, i made a loaf of banana bread and a dozen banana muffins. today, it’s all nearly gone. oink oink! not even sorry.
and on the topic of bananas, i recently learned from a very wise source [my mom] that monkeys often open their bananas from the bottom end! miiiind blowing! because, hey! it so works! those monkeys. let’s just say my banana life has changed for the better.
sidenote, whenever i put butter on a muffin… i cannot control the little voice from mean girls in my head saying, “is your muffin buttered? would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?” gah, is that the best movie ever? still gets me good all these years later.
This is totally on my to-do list with my mushy old bananas. AND, I love Mean Girls. LOVE. You have great taste, in books, movies, baking. 🙂
oh thank you SO much!!! as do you 😉 😉
I completely side with you on the love of baking vs. cooking! This makes me want to go bake some banana muffins asap 🙂
I think my husband only keeps me around to supply him with chocolate chip banana muffins. 😉
Love the mean girls quote.
AARON GO SHAVE YOUR BACK NOW!
mmmm those muffins sounds amazing! Ive turned into much more of baker since I had my daughter and I have a pretty mean snicker doodle recipe if you want it 🙂
I just bought some super ripe bananas to make banana bread with. Us, great minds must be thinking alike! I made cookies two days ago and those are pretty much all gone. I blame the chilly, rainy weather!
oh all the baking is soooo the weather's fault!!
Yummy! I've been wanting to make Banana bread FOREVER but I never have. I think the mini would love it. I don't mind cooking sometimes, but I admit we eat out pretty often around here and I prefer baking over cooking ANY day!
i am so glad i'm not the only who'd rather bake than cook!! i had been meaning to do banana bread for forever, too, and then fortunately i had some brown 'nanners just begging me to use them up 🙂
baking > cooking always for me too 🙂 Love! Must try this out
ahh i am so glad i'm not the only!
haha best quote ever! I seriously dont know where I have been but I never even thought to put butter on my banana muffins! Yum
i don't always, but i love a little butter on a warm muffin!!