Saturday, June 30, 2007

Forgotten Bananas

Last Saturday I bought 4 small bananas.

I threw them on the counter and promptly forgot about them. Don't they look awful?

You are only looking at the skins. I forgot to take a pic before I removed the banana.
Don't they look better now? Especially with the cream cheese/rum frosting.



I doctored up a yellow cake mix to make a banana/artificial-rum-flavored cake.
I used the Irish Creme instead of milk in the frosting. I must say it all combined for a nice little dessert. I baked them in a larger pan so I would have a higher proportion of frosting to cake. I hate getting a 4-inch high piece of cake with 1/8-inch layer of frosting.
I rarely bake anymore (especially on a work night!). For some reason I was full of cooking/baking energy last night.

It must be the colder weather.

Since I am not cooking much, my potatoes look like this:

So I took a couple outside this morning and planted them just to see what would happen.
This is a bare spot in the rockwall garden where I have been using roundup to kill off the goutweed.

A few weeks ago I decided to pull out my one remaining garden chair. I didn't have any annuals left so I just planted some of my perennials in it.

This week my first calla lily bloomed.

6 comments:

  1. They cake looks really good.I love the chair with the perennials.

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  2. Yum banana bread with icing!
    As soon as I saw those peels it reminded me of the 'How clean is your house' episode I watched last night. Kim was using the peels (inside part) to show some boys how to polish their shoes! Bananas have a lot of oil and it worked. You buff them after the polishing part.
    Good luck with the tators! ; )

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  3. Laurie,
    The cake was good! I am having my mom/dad for dinner tonight,so I hope they like it, too.

    Dianne,
    You're kidding? Polish shoes with banana peels? I've never heard of that. It seems like the shoes might smell after a while! LOL. I guess buffing them removes all the smelly banana.

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  4. Your banana dessert looks great! And in case you are too tired next time (after a hard working day) to do anything with very old bananas, think of your roses (or any other plant) and spoil them with the peels and the "inside"....it is a good organic fertilizer!!!Have a nice weekend!

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  5. OOOOOHH! I love "How Clean is your House"! Don't you just love Aggie's accent? I cannot imagine for one minute how anyone can let a camera crew into their house when it looks like that!

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  6. Your calla is very pretty - I love the purple in the planter with it. The chair is very cool. Cake looks yummy!

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