Free tile? Yes please!

I responded to a Craigslist.org ad yesterday for some free tile with no pictures and these are the pictures that the gal just sent back to me!

Looks like we shall be picking it up today for free! Craftiness awaits!

Life Changing....

There are some moments when you stop and pause with a revolutionary new combination in your mouth and think, "oh. my. god. i just realized why i am alive"

or at least something close to that.

This was one of those moments.

What is this concoction you may ask? Banana Zucchini Bread over Homemade Yogurt. But not just any Bread....and not just any yogurt.

Lets start with the yogurt.


I'll be upfront about it. This yogurt is old by yogurts standards. Its been in my fridge over a week and a half since I made it. But the base is Nancy's yogurt, thick creamy sour yogurt. The kind that makes my mother and all my siblings pucker their faces and run out of my home swearing never to taste what I dub "delicious" again.

And the longer it sits....the more sour it is :) So this bowl I threw a little sugar into because it was that sour.

Part Two.

The best freaking bread I have ever made.

Banana Zucchini Bread
(adapted from recipezaar)

3 large eggs

1 c. vegetable oil (I used Canola oil)

1 1/2 c. sugar

2 c. all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 c. chopped walnuts

1 c. raw zucchini, shredded (mine was defrosted from frozen and was still slightly chunky when I threw it in)

1 c. mashed banana (I used 4 bananas from the freezer so a little more than 1 cup)

Shred zucchini and set aside. Mash bananas gently (but dont puree them for the love of all things holy) and set aside. In a large bowl, beat eggs, oil, and sugar. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, vanilla extract. Thoroughly combine. Add zucchini, bananas and walnuts until well blended.

Pour into one greased (I use PAM) 8x8 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Check it at this point. It should look like this. Beautiful right?

Then you'll giggle it and realize that just below that beautiful crust lies vats of gooey uncooked batter. Eat the edges because you are too impatient for the middle to cook. Put it back in the oven longer. Check it again in 20 minutes. Finally get pissed off that it is taking so long and just turn the oven off and leave it in there with the residual heat. Watch your movie. Come back and find this....(well this is actually the morning after we ate half of it)

It is moist. Sweet. A bread pudding sensation.

I brought a plate to Kevin. He ate it quietly. Then said, " Thats good....that's amazingly good babe."

And then he returned to eat another 1/3rd of it. :)

Come in....

Have a cup of tea with me :-)

I finally decided on a name and have an outlet for my brain again! Yay!

As usual I am doing this because I got distracted from what I was supposed to be doing (making salsa) and I have a whole bag of tomatoes out in the kitchen.....so I am going back to finish making it! Love salsa!

BUT! In my normal fashion I was sitting in the bathroom and a sudden genius burst of craftiness popped into my head. I am in desperate need of baskets....little ones, big ones, all kinds of them because thats what keeps me organized. But they are SO expensive and me....I just dont do expensive. So I thought about taking up basket weaving, which while fun looks like way to much work for my lazy creative self.

So I was sitting there and I thought...bam I should make fabric covered cardboard boxes! That would be cute!

So I did a quick google search and ta da! The good people over at Sew 4 Home have an amazingly cute pattern that I am going to try out soon! The are cute, cheap AND they collapse for flat storage....yay!

Check it out here

See you soon!