Lovely Recipe

Warning: Prepare to be overloaded with pictures.















One of my favorite things to do....well pretty much my absolute favorite thing to do, is bake. There's something about it that is so zen that I just can't get over. One thing that I love making, and in fact make practically every week is banana bread. (actually i think i make it so much that my family is now bored of it). I've tried a bunch of recipes, and I think I've come up with a favorite. Actually. I've had it the whole time and I just keep coming back to it.
So, I've decided to depart the recipe with you all.




The recipe's really easy and the result is more than satisfactory; the bread is a lot different than any other banana bread i've ever had, partly because the color is a lot lighter and it's just a bit sweeter i think. Anywho, you'll soon see for yourself!

Banana Nut Bread:
Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp. shortening
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3 cups flour
• 3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3/4 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 35o degrees.
2. Grease a loaf pan 9 by 5 by 3.
3. mix sugar, shortening, and egg thoroughly.
4. Stir in milk.
5. Measure flour and blend dry ingredients; stir in.
6. Add bananas and stir in nuts.
7. Pour into pan; bake 60 to 70 minutes or until toothpick stuck into center comes out clean. (crack in top of loaf is characteristic.)
8. Cool thoroughly before slicing with a thin, sharp knife.

Enjoy!

The Cookbook is this really old Betty Crocker edition that belonged to my great grandmother. It's really neat because it's one of the if not THE first edition that contains color pictures. So the whole book is scattered with pages of pictures here and there, and they are all those black an white pictures which were given color after they were taken so they have this nice, old, vintage-y feel to them.
Here. I'll show you a picture:


It was really funny taking all of these pictures because I was near a window that faces into my neighbor's kitchen, and I could just imagine them watching me and wondering what the heck i was doing moving around a loaf of bread and a cookbook and taking pictures of them every few seconds. HA!

The Starfish Story: meaning behind my blog's name

The Starfish Story
Original Story by: Loren Eisley

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed
a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.

Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”

The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean.
The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”

“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish?
You can’t make a difference!”

After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish,
and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said…
"I made a difference for that one.”

whoa!

take a look at that giant light bulb fixture!
new goal in life: get a hold of one o'those babies

i'm also on the lookout for a beautiful vintage bird cage. so if anyone finds one, you know where to find me!

Alice and Wonderland-ish?

i'm mostly posting this blog for myself to remember
but i really like these pictures posted on the blog La Mome (http://lamomeblog.blogspot.com/)
the head bands and makeup are a bit wonderland-y, no?
i particularly like the first one with the buttons, at least for the outfit i have in mind

currently lusting over...

these cup and spoon measures from anthropologie
i absolutely adore them and MUST get them some day. end of story:)


*side note: blog title borrowed from the blog "notebookdoodles"...but i used it because i felt like it fit perfectly for what i'm saying

Changes

so as i was re-figuring my blog
i decided that this quote no longer fit in front of my header picture,
so i'm just gonna post it here so that it doesn't disappear completely from my blog.
besides, people could never read it the other way anyway so heres goes:

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Jack Kerouac

As You Can See

My Blog is currently under construction:)