things i love thursday...

Food food food this week.  First up is applesauce. 

I almost never eat the stuff, just never have a hankerin'.  I know it's great with pork or turkey but being a vegetarian rules those out for me.  I read a super easy recipe over on the very lovely, Laura Ingalls Gunn's blog Decor to Adore, last week and decided to give it a go.  I cut the recipe in half because there are only two of us and I didn't want mountains of applesauce.  I'm was very sorry and have since made another batch.  It was crazy good, like we spooned it on ice-cream good.  Plus the house smelled heavenly all day.  I highly recommend it.

Something I've always loved is banana bread.  It's kind of a pain to go through the effort of making a gluten-free loaf so I don't - miss it.  I have mountains of brown bananas in the freezer and some new neighbors so I decided to make them a loaf yesterday.  The middle stayed gooey.  I couldn't keep cooking it because it was getting dry and the ends were way overdone.  What the heckschmeck?  I've made it a million times before.  Anyone know why this happened?  Anway, I salvaged the parts that were still moist (but not gooey) and made Andrew Henry some banana bread french toast for breakfast this morning.  He loved it so it made the list today.

We're still loving our new popcorn maker - especially when we mix in pepper and peanut M&Ms.  Just crazy good.  Do you have any fun ways you eat your popcorn?  I'd love to know, we're popcorn experimenting.