It's Been Awhile...

Oh my goodness.... I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted! We have had all sorts of kitchen adventures and I have lots of pictures, so I guess I will backtrack a bit.
Here we go!

Did you know you can make ice cream with bananas. JUST bananas. Cut into slices and freeze. Throw them in your blender and they get creamier and creamier. Refreeze for a little while for a more solid "ice cream." We went for the soft serve straight out of the blender stuff. Yum. Even better with chocolate chips sprinkled on top!

I also made "Chocolate Duos." It is on the Kraft website I think. Not the greatest cookie recipe ever, but the boys loved how one cookie turned into TWO cookies. One side was chocolate chocolate chip and the other side was coconut. I would do this again, but I would just use my standard chocolate chip cookie recipe and add cocoa powder to half the batch.

Then I bought some beautiful carrots from the farmer's market and decided to try making carrot chips. Just slice them up nice and thin and even, sprinkle with salt, and bake at maybe 250 for a couple of hours. Daniel loved these.

Before baking... forgot to take an after...

We played ticket to ride... the boys' way:

And just last week we repainted an old table that was found in our basement when we moved in and has since been sitting in the backyard. To relax afterwards we had some home-made iced tea. My sister gave me some apple-mint that she grew. I roughly chopped about 20 big leaves. I steeped the leaves in four cups boiling water for a couple of hours. Added 1/2 cup sugar a little lemon juice and 10 more cups of water. Refreshing.

Didn't the boys do a great job on the table?