August Wrap Up

This August has been one for the books. It’s had its ups and downs and in-betweens. I’ve started new chapters in my life and pondered the old. This reminds me fall is upon us all and something about this season makes me what to get my act together. Collect all my supplies needed and forge forward that this year, and by year I mean school year, I will be better and I will do better. As I move forward I can know with certainty that I will actually be better and strive to do better! But enough about the future this is about August!

Mash That Banana!

When you’re young they never tell you that your fruit/veggies go bad faster when you are the one buying them! We bought some bananas last week with hopes of eating them and alas they ripened too much… cause we didn’t actually eat them.  BUT these brown bananas definitely meant that I had the ultimate ingredient for some deliciously amazing banana bread. So now this blog title makes some sense and of course I’m in that phase where I’m trying to waste less and use up everything I have. Although I didn’t mash my bananas before I started… so maybe the title doesn’t makes sense.

Short That Lime

Since I’ve moved, I wanted to make something super easy. I’m just so tired from the move  & all the unpacking. A bake that had less steps than the other one bowl challenge bakes I’ve done, here & here, would make life so much better. Shortbread is super simple to make, 5 ingredients total and no greasing of the pan or cooling on a rack colored me impressed. With this in mind, I came across this awesome Lime Shortbread Bar recipe, quick, simple and quite scrumy!

We’ve Moved!

Ramin and I moved to our new place last Thursday and have been super busy ever since trying to get all of our belongings in and organized since then! I’m officially pooped. Currently I am trying to make a list of things we will need moving forward and my brain is like hold up is it nap time yet? I don’t nap people. never liked it really, makes me feel all weird a groggy but here I am wanting sleep to come sooner.

Funfetti Cookie Bars

In celebration of our big move this week, I made Funfetti Cookie Bars. You know the ones that look like Birthday Cake. Those celebration fun rainbow sprinkles goodies. I’ll just show you some pictures. I may have stress baked because of all these issues surrounding signing our lease and moving in but pending no more surprises we move in today!!!! I’m so ecstatic.

5 Books I’ve Read Recently

This summer I set out on a journey, well many journeys, but this one is tangible. I set out to read 8 books and as of last night, I finished half! You can find my full reading list here. I may have mentioned this before but I used to devour books. I was obsessed with reading in high school; I read maybe 1 book a week in addition to the novels we read in English classes.  Once college happened, I stopped. I maybe read a couple books as part of a series but that was all. I had lost my love of reading until this summer.