Home made Sugar and Cinnamon Toasted Almonds

So after my epic food fail from Thursday night, I decided the next thing I was going to experiment and cook should be something I am more familiar with...sugar.

Since I have been pregnant, I have cut back on meat because the Alien Child inside of me will not let me stomach it.  In order to receive the same amount of protein I have been making sure to eat a handful of nuts.  Mostly almonds because they are my favorite.  I wanted something different and I thought about the carnival almonds I used to get all the time from the local fair and amusement parks back at home.  I did some research and came up with my own little recipe for the nuts...

What you need:

• 3 cups of almonds
• 1 egg white
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 1 tsp of salt
• 2 1/2 cups of white sugar
• 3 tablespoons of brown sugar
• 1 tsp of cinnamon (add more if you want more of a cinnamon taste rather than sugar)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F
• Lay down some waxed paper on a large baking dish (or just choose to grease it, but with the sugar caked on...trust me you want the paper)
• In a medium bowl mix the egg white and vanilla until frothy 
• Add Almonds in the bowl and make sure you coat all almonds
• Add sugar, salt, brown sugar, and cinnamon to the bowl and mix until mixture is even spread on Almonds
• Spread Almonds on the cooking sheet.  Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes taking almonds out of the oven every 20 minutes to "stir"
• Cool. And eat deliciousness. 

These came out amazing, and I will be making them again.  They are also good for around the holidays so make sure you mark this for future reference!

I can't cook but I can bake like a MO FO

So I had some left over bananas sitting on my counter that were way too ripe to eat. So I decided to make some home made banana bread. After scanning the internet for a while looking at the basic ingredients for the bread I decided to make my own version. Lets just say I will be making this again because it was the best banana bread I have ever had in my life.

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
1 egg beaten
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
two generous scoops of sour cream (maybe 1/2 cup)
Handful of chocolate chips
handful of walnuts

Step one: Preheat oven to 358F

Step two: Mash your bananas with a wooden spoon or what I prefer to use...

Step three: Mix in sugar, egg and cinnamon to mashed bananas

Step four: Add baking soda, salt and sour cream. Mix well then add chocolate chips and walnuts.

Step 5: I like using rectangular baking dishes, so I would suggest a 4X8 baking dish for your mixture. You could be boring and use a square if you'd like.

Step 6: Bake for one full hour.

Step 7: Take out of oven and let cool for a few minutes, cut yourself a slice and NOM NOM NOM