Thursday, August 14, 2008

Banana Bread, black bean dip

A nice night :) Jill and I launched a new body step release and it went really well! The new music is a lot of fun! I also love teaching with Jill!! After class, I rushed home to make some treats to bring to a friends house. Our friend, who use to live with us (Frank's Uncle Jordan), recently moved out and into a place of his own. Tonight we were going to see it for the first time and to watch the Eagles game (Josh and Jordan are both big eagles fans......and they both really love my team too- the Patriots haha). I was trying to decide between several banana bread recipes ( the one Jenn made looked incredible, but I was missing ingredients so I ended up making a hybrid of several recipes):

Banana Marble Pudding Bread:

Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flor
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup packed brown sugar

Wet Ingredients:
1/4 cup vegetable oil (or applesauce)
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 to a whole individual serving sugar free pudding cup (depending upon the amount of moisture you like)
3 smashed bananas

For Marble:
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Mix together dry ingredients in one bowl and wet in another. Combine wet and dry ingredients. In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate chips (it took about 1 1/2 minutes in my microwave). Once melted, add 1 cup banana bread mixture to chocolate chips and mix well. Spray loaf pan. Layer regular banana bread mixture and chocolate banana bread mixture to form marble. Bake for approximately 50 minutes (check with toothpick).

I also made the black bean dip I posted about here.





Once everything was done, we headed over to Jordan's. His new place is great! He also made some food- pigs in a blanket and awesome pasta salad. Here are a few pics from the night:

Josh enjoying a miller lite during the eagles game:



Jordan's pasta salad:


Pigs in a blanket (I taught him this one...easy crowd pleasing appetizer):


Uncle Jordan in Eagles attire:

Wonderful night! Yayy for tomorrow being Friday and the end of my first full week of work at my new job- what do you all have going on this weekend...I want details!