Banana Bread/Muffins

Ingredients:
Dry:
2 c. flour
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp Baking Powder

Wet:
1/2 c. margarine, softened
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. Brown sugar
2 eggs

Other:
2 ripe bananas
Optional: walnuts

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Spray bread pan/tin with non-stick Spray
3. combine dry ingredients.  Set Aside
4. In a mixer, cream sugars and margarine
5. Add Eggs one at a time
6. add bananas (and walnuts if you like those)
7. Add dry ingredients in batches, mixing to combine
8. Pour in to cake pan or muffin tin
9. bake for 75 minutes for cake.

Can be doubled and baked in a 9x13 pan for the same amount of time.

DSLR CAMERA

we bought a new camera.  Jared had received quite a few gift certificates from work for projects he has done.  A friend of mine had made some recommendations.  I saw a daily deal at best buy, so we pulled the trigger and bought it.  Chalked the rest of the cost up to Jared's birthday, and it was ours!  it really does take nice pictures of the kids, now to just upload the pics!  And I'll look for a groupon for classes to take to practice using it.  Maybe this digital photography through the year book will be a good place to start.

Mashed (Sweet) Potatoes

This would work well for either regular potatoes, or sweet potatoes.

1. Placed washed potatoes in pot, cover with water.
2. Boil for 10 minutes for each potato.  2 potatoes= 20 minutes, 4 potatoes = 40 minutes
3. Drain.
4. Place potatoes in large food processor.
5. Blend until smooth. 
6. Add butter and milk, garlic salt to taste for potatoes.
7. Add butter and brown sugar for sweet pototoes.
8. Serve immediately, they get cold quickly.

I don't peel the potatoes...there's some good nutrients in there!

Bike trailer

I found a bike trailer on Craigslist.  If this snow ever melts, we'll go for a ride.

Scan Photos to Digital

I had found a Groupon for this company.  Scan Photos to Digital.  I only had about 30 pictures to scan, but it was super easy.  Drop off and a few days later it was ready for pick up.

Set up items - Pre-plan

1/20/2014.  i've just finished entering most of the items into my Remember the Milk app.  planning out items that require monthly or long term planning, as well as scheduling the majority of the items, so I am not overwhelmed with a lot at the end.  I hope this will allow me to complete more than the 55% I completed last time.

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French toast:
dried out challah bread, cut thick
eggs
vanilla
milk

whisk the wet ingredients together.
dip bread in mixture, for a few seconds on each side to absorb in
cook on medium high heat in a saute pan