Banana Bread with mini chocolate chips!

Banana Bread - Yum.

Chocolate Chips - Yum.

Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips - Double Yum!

The not so mistake mistake cake!

So this was the cake I made for my mom on her Birthday this year. It's a mistake cake that turned out to be anything but a mistake! :o)

The middle layer that you see there is a brownie ... you see I thought I had picked up a box of dark chocolate cake mix, when in fact, what I picked up was a dark chocolate brownie mix. Interesting factoid ... I didn't even notice it was a brownie mix until it was baking ... ha ha ha.

But I digress...when I realized my mistake, suddenly the raspberry jam to put between the two layers of chocolate cake didn't seem possible. Thankfully I was at my folks place, and they had a white cake mix on the pantry shelf, so I made that and then I improvised.

White cake, brownie, raspberry jam, white cake ... chocolate frosting and non-perils.

It was actually quite DELICIOUS!!!!!

Guh-schnitzel-Tiss

This is what mom wanted for her B-day dinner ... it's so gooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!

Galumpki

This was my first attempt at Polish Manicotti .... I'll see if I can find the recipe to put it on here ... but you can in fact google and find a whole slew of them. ;o)

Amish Refrigerator Pickles

Giving these a try ... easy to make ... hopefully YUMMY to consume.

Sliced cucumbers (I actually used mini cuc's 'cause they were cute)

1 Onion, sliced

1 Green bell pepper, sliced

1 cup of cider vinegar (I didn't have cider so I used white vinegar)

Dressing mixture:

2 cups sugar (yes you read that correctly)

1 tsp celery seed

2 tbsps salt

*With the amount of liquid I had - from the above portions - I was able to do 2 large mason jars.

After layering the cucumbers, onions and green pepper into the jars, pour dressing over top (1/2 of the dressing in each jar) and then top it off with cold water.

Give it a shake and pop it in the fridge.

They'll (according to the recipe I found) be good to go the following day!

Apple Cinnamon Water

1. I'm trying to lose some weight ...

2. I'm trying to drink the 'right' amount of water every day ..

3. I thought I'd combine the two and try some water infusions that are labeled as "detoxers" and are supposed to be good for helping to slim down WHILE ridding the body of toxins.

First try is Apple Cinnamon Water (in my new infuser pitcher). 

1 cinnamon stick

Thinly sliced apple (of your choice)

Let sit in fridge for at least one hour before consuming.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Smoothie

I did it!!!

30 Days of June = 30 New Kitchen Creations!!! 

Woot woot!

Today's creation was a Chocolate Chip Smoothie ...

1 cup vanilla ice cream

1 cup milk

1 cup cookies (crumbled)

1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Tasty ... but, it was too liquidy for me, and the mini chips didn't blend, they sank to the bottom. Still good to eat / drink ... but not a smoothie I would make again (I don't think), unless I used a LOT more ice cream. ;o)