food for the soul

so its' been awhile since I have last updated and I apologize! I know everyone is just dying to read my next blog! (a lot of sarcasm there) But I do want to share some great recipes I have come across over the past few weeks! So I am not a great cook, but thats only because I am learning. I hope to be one day, but over the past few weeks I have become interested and well, better, at making pasteries/desserts/baking. I wanted to share a few easy and delicious recipes for those that would like to try something new :) First off, I made some key lime tartlets. They are super easy and super wonderful! All you need is some Lime Curd (found in a jar in the baking isle, looks like lime jelly), sugar, and a block of cream cheese for the mixture. I used kroger brand fat free and tasted just as good!

You put those three into the mixer, mix well, and then fill each little tartlet with the mixture and put in the fridge until ready to serve. You can make them fancy and add some whip cream and a lime slice, but I just went plain for this batch! I found these little tartlets in the baking isle. They are little pricey but they are no bake and taste wonderful! Really worth the buy

So that is the final product and they are cute and bite size and just perfect! So another recipe that I tried, today actually, was my first loaf of banana bread! I had 3 really really ripe bananas and didn't want to throw them away so I found a pretty simple and easy recipe for banana bread. This is a recipe where you dont even need a mixer, if you dont have one, you can just mix it all by hand! First off, you mix butter and smash the bananas together. I used a fork for this to help get some of the chunks out but the rest I mixed with just a wooden spoon! Then I added sugar, vanilla extract, one egg, baking soda, and salt.

Once they were all mixed together, I added the flour, a little bit at a time and that helped make it more like a batter. Then I poured the mixture into a well greased loaf pan! It looks so wonderful and already smells good at this point!

And after that, all it had to do was bake at 350 for about an hour. Because I had a little bit bigger loaf pan than what the recipe called for, mine only took about 50 minutes to cook but just play it by ear and check with a toothpick, if it comes out with no mixture on it, its good! Then i just let it cool and it is oh so wonderful! I am excited to take this for breakfast this week :)

So those are just a couple to share. I really have enjoyed making them and look forward to finding more recipes to share! I really want to learn to cook but I don't know, I just really enjoy baking more! We'll see! SO other than that, things have been pretty good around the robertson house. The husband made me breakfast this morning, a totally surprise! Eggs, bacon (with brown sugar and syrup-- if you haven't had it, you really should!) fresh fruit and cinnamon rolls! He's such a great husband and I am lucky to have him in my life Alright well I suppose that is all for now! about to start yet another long week! Oh and P.S. I know it's still August but Blue Moon already has their pumpkin beer out and it is wonderful! Gets me excited for the fall! Plus, first UVA home game this weekend -- so looking forward to it!:) Well, until next time..xoxo<3