Tropical Banana Bread

Banana bread is a totally awesome way to use up overripe bananas...but add some crushed pineapple, coconut and spice and a tiny bit of orange glaze and you're in Paradise!

Tropical Banana Bread

3 C flour*

2 C sugar*

1 t salt

1 t baking soda

1 t cinnamon

1 t nutmeg

3 eggs

1 C oil*

2 t vanilla

1 15 oz. can crushed pineapple, drained

3-4 smashed ripe bananas

3/4 C coconut

Mix oil and sugar; add eggs; stir in pineapple, bananas and vanilla; add dry ingredients and coconut. This makes two small loaves (4 1/2 x 8) or 5 mini loaf pans (3 x 5)

For extra deliciousness glaze with a little powdered sugar/orange juice glaze.

***You can substitute 1 C wheat flour for part of the white; you could also replace half the oil with applesause and reduce the sugar by half...but I just gave up on being healthy and went for yummy! It's so good no one will get more that one or two pieces...

Rolo Cookies....

Everyone can have homemade cookies with this yummy recipe from Six Sisters Stuff....a great recipe for kids to cook too...only four ingredients....but you might have to monitor the unwrapping of the Rolo candy!

The cookie 'staches are hiding the smiles as they bite into the gooey caramel centers!

Rolo Cookies

1 pkg(12 oz) Rolo candies, unwrapped
1 box chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 C oil

Mix the cake mix, eggs and oil. Pinch off a small ball and wrap around a Rolo. (Just use enough to envelope the Rolo)

Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 360 about 7-8 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired....Makes about 3 dozen...depending on how many Rolos get eaten while being unwrapped!

Almost Pumpkin Pie (Crock Pot)

Well, tomorrow is September, school has started, and a "fallish" dessert sounds really appealing....this was from that Facebook Page...Crock Pot Girls...

This might even be a good breakfast....

Crockpot Pumpkin Custard

Spray your crockpot with cooking spray. I used a 3 quart crock pot.

Mix in a bowl:

16 oz can pumpkin

12 oz can evaporated milk (I used 1%)

2 eggs

1/2 C Bisquick

3/4 C sugar

1 t pumpkin pie spice

2 t vanilla

2 T melted butter (optional)

Pour into crockpot; cover and cook on Low 6-8 hours or on High 3-4 hours. I put mine on High about 3:15 today and by 6:15 it was perfect.

Thanks for the cute birthday present, Kendra!

I got a nice surprise today...Kendra had ordered this for my birthday and it came today...isn't this darling... a bracelet with classic Golden Books framed....when I think of all the hours spent with these books...both in my own childhood and with my kids and grandkids...it will bring me a happy feeling every time I look at it!

She got it on Etsy from Southern Heidi Belle ...she makes a lot of other cute bracelets with various themes...

Babysitting Posey....

While Kendra and Dustin were in Utah this week, we took care of Posey....we only lost a couple of pairs of shoes (sorry about the Puma's, Mark)...and a wallet....Link was a good sport about her stealing his bones...most of the time

Pioneer Day in Utah

I always though it would be great to be in Utah on my birthday...(Pioneer Day)...so this year I was! We didn't actually go to any parades...but we saw a lot of fireworks, some of which were really exciting as they started a fire on the hill behind Karl's house...and Alec made me his famous Tres Leche cake!

Happy Day! Kaity and Alan's Wedding!

I thought I'd put up a few wedding pictures...summer has been busy...not much blogging going on!



The Nieman-Broadbent families (and friends)


Sweet memories!

A bevy of beauties...

Fun at our Fenton's lunch!

Beautiful flowers....like that "antique" blue mason jar???....it's really a clear one with a drop of food coloring in the water (teal from the McKormick Neon food coloring set)

The most fun....we had a Photobooth!


The Gardner's beautiful yard! Thanks so much....

Wedding pies....I ordered 30 from Marie Callendar's...then the next week they went out of business! So we had to scramble a bit.

Key Lime, Strawberry Rhubarb, Chocolate Creme, Lemon Creme, Apple, Bing Cherry...

Off to a beautiful life together!