Vegetable Lasagna and Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

The bread is AMAZING! I think maybe with some bananas that are more ripe, it would be better, as the only bananas the store had tonight were green. But it's still really good.

I made veggie lasagna tonight as well. It had ricotta cheese, basil, garlic, tomatoes, zuchini, carrots, noodles and mozerella cheese. MMMMMMM!

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

I found this recipe, and haven't tried it yet, but want to, so this is my way of "storing" it, so to speak.

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

(makes 1 large loaf or 4 mini loaves)

1 1/4 cup sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3-4 mashed bananas
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 – 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
walnuts if desired

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Cream together sugar and butter, add eggs one at a time. Mix in milk, bananas and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients.

Pour into greased loaf pan. Bake for about 60 mins for regular loaf pan, or 30 mins for mini loaves.

Holidays

I'm so not ready for the holidays. I am in my head, but our house is NOT in any way at all. We just recently acquired another couch, and have expanded our living area to include 80% of the living room. Now, we just need to clean out the space by my fish tank and then there will be room for the tree. I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas but my brother.

Alright, so this blog post is going to be cut short due to having to find the bug that just bit me on my side. OUCH!

Welder Guy's new job.

So about a week before the wedding, Welder Guy was laid off from the company he's been with for about five years. They are SUPER slow and had to lay guys off in order to stay afloat. Welder Guy is one of the first guys they will be hiring back when they get busy again, but for now, he's not working for S. In July, he went to work for K, which didn't pay well at all, and he hated. He said the work was easy but that he was bored and didn't know how to give only $13/hr worth of work, as he's a hard worker and doesn't go to work to gossip. After working for K for about 4 months, he decided to head down to the next "big town" and work for L. He's been there a week and I'm already sick of it! He leaves at 540 every morning, and he gets home a few minutes after 430. I have been going to work at 3 or 4, and I get home after 8. This leaves us about an hour before bed to be with each other. I feel like I never see him! I miss my husband! And... the money still isn't great!

My birthday

So it's been almost two weeks since my birthday, and aside from the delay, it was wonderful! Welder Guy and I got up and he made me chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. We left the house at about 10am and headed down to Best Buy to pick up a present for FIL's birthday and Welder Guy bought me a new cell phone for my birthday. Then, we headed over to Apple Hill and met my mom there and we went to Kids Incorporated and one other stop. We had delicious cider, apple fritters and apple donuts. We brought home frozen apple pies. it was a beautiful day. We ended the day by going to The Melting Pot in Sacramento. We started out with two cheese fondues (one with beer, and one with artichoke hearts and spinach). We had apples and carrots/celery/cauliflower, and bread to dip in them. Then we had one vegetable broth pot and one hot oil pot for dipping our chicken breasts, pork, beef, shrimp and assorted vegetables. Oh, I almost forgot, before the broth and oil, we had salad. Anyways, after that we had a bananas foster chocolate fondue and a black and white chocolate fondue. We got bananas, strawberries, rice krispy treats, marshmallows, brownies, etc. for that. It was amazing food!

Chores

So I don't mind doing the household stuff. Cleaning the floors, loading and unloading the dishwasher, cleaning the rodent cages, dusting, taking the garbage out... however, there is one chore I absolutely HATE more than anything. The laundry. I don't mind throwing the clothes in the washer, throwing them in the drier, things like that... But I hate folding and putting them away. So much. My mom came up a few months ago (maybe like 6-8 weeks ago), and we got the whole house in order, and the only thing left to do was put the laundry away. Well, I still haven't done it. It's still sitting on my dining room table. I've added to it. Taken some clothes into the bedroom and put them away, but I just can't get myself to stand there and put it all away. It's driving me nuts! I finally got up the nerve today to fold it, and now I only have one more load to go. Wish me luck!