Posts from ‘August, 2009’

My roommate and I were equally excited to get back to New Mexico.  She was born in Farmington, which is in the northwest corner of the state, and hasn’t been back since she was about a year old.  My New Mexican experience was a trip about ten years ago to Sante Fe with my father [...]

Oddly enough I seem to have fallen in love with the Southwest. Yes, it is an unexpected surprise. You see, I’m the kind of person who likes trees. I like green. I like the ocean, lakes and streams. I enjoy soft grass. There is not exactly a plethora of these things in the Southwest.   
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I used to think I was pretty well traveled for someone my age. Growing up, my father took us to Colorado to see our grandparents nearly every summer. We took trips to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, New Mexico to visit Sante Fe and Taos, Wyoming to see cousins and experience the west. My [...]

Nevada. Hm.

I shouldn’t have complained so much about California.
We drove across the border into Nevada late Friday night. Our destination? Las Vegas. The drive was very long and full of traffic jams and bad drivers. Eventually we left the palm trees and smog of California and headed into the empty Nevada desert. Around 1:30 [...]

Today I was faced with a situation: throw away the mushy bananas that were lying on my kitchen table OR use for them banana bread and suffer with the consequentially hot kitchen.  
I chose to bake the bread.  Because without it, all you’ve got is rotten bananas.
I use this recipe over and over.  It’s from [...]