I would submit this “fail” to the FAIL Blog, but I doubt it would make it to the homepage. So I will be content to share it here:

This math does not make sense to me

The ingredients

Yesterday I made Banana Nut muffins bases on this recipe. I fully intened to make banana bread, but realized that I have no loaf pans (or they are some where in the depths of the kitchen cabinets and I couldn’t find them). Ifollowed the recipe closely, as you need to for baking recipes, here is my slightly modified recipe:

Whole Wheat Banana Nut Muffins
Yields 10-11 muffins

• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg (freshly ground is best)
• splash of vanilla extract
• 1 5oz container nonfat vanilla yogurt (I used Oikos nonfat vanilla greek yogurt)
• 2 very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup walnuts

1. Preheat oven to 350. In a small bowl, mash the bananas and add the brown sugar, yogurt and egg. Mix well.
2. In a larger bowl, SIFT the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently fold together — do NOT overmix!
3. Pour batter into prepared nonstick (or greased) muffin tin and bake for about 20 minutes. Check early – don’t over bake
4. Let cool for 5 minutes in the pan then pop out of pan and enjoy.

The muffins

Sad news today - our Office MOM was liad off, due to the economy. I don’t know how we will survive - have to remember how to make my own lunch. Here is our final lunch menu - it was a very tasty week:

1. Last party you went to?
   Back in April I went to a “Rockstar Party” hosted by Rex (in the Rockstar Suite of Chambers Hotel). It was quite fun, got to see some former co-workers and meet some new people. And watch from above while a guy was arrested.
2. Do you pee in the shower?
   No. And I hope that is same answer my hubby would give.
3. Have you ever fired a gun?
   Yes, a long, long time ago I fired a shot gun (every farm has one).
4. Where do you call home?
   My house. But this reminds me of a story – when my brother and I both moved out of our childhood home but still lived near by, he would say, “I am going home” So I asked if he meant home – the farm, or home – his apartment, and he explained it this way: “Home is the apartment; Home Home is the farm”. I always thought that was cute, and I felt the same way.
5. What’s your favorite board game?
   Currently I am digging Settlers of Catan, esp. the Cities and Knights version.

Friday Fiver from here.

Ain’t it pretty?

Zappos.com has a new feature - “Blog about or MySpace this item!” LOL. I need some new running shoes, so I ordered these:

A more recent list than the last one:

Things that are easier than you thought

• using and immersion blender
• cutting up a pineapple
• being the pack leader

Things that are harder than you thought

• finding a good mojito
• writing a decent resume
• photographing a black dog