11/05/11: Frozen Banana Bites

I follow a blog called (Never Home)Maker. It's a great blog of a fellow preggo, food fanatic and fitness enthusiast. I have been wanting to make these Frozen Banana Bites for a while and just never had bananas and chocolate in the house at the same time. FINALLY today was the day...and good thing because I was in need of something sweet and the apple pie I wanted to make from scratch (I'll make it tomorrow) needs 4 hours for the dough to chill. That's what I get for waiting until right before I want to cook something to read the instructions.

These are in the freezer right now, but I couldn't wait to share them. I didn't use vegan chocolate chips, but instead used Ghirardelli 60% cocao bittersweet chips and I made half with just chocolate and half with chocolate and my favorite peanut butter, Full Circle (which I could live on...seriously, ask Andy). I didn't measure anything...just kind of went for it. I did sprinkle some coconut on top of some of them. I wanted a little variety! Can't wait to try them in their "frozen" state. (I can't say I didn't try them before freezing...)

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Roller Derby Shower!

This is me, Sinful Sally, on skates just over a year ago. My last bout, before hanging up my skates for retirement, was in August 2010.

This is me now...

Today was the roller derby shower, hosted by my derby chicks that I used to spend 2-4 nights a week and numerous weekends every month. I miss seeing them so often. And after skating a bout last night and staying out late to party, they made the baby shower a day to remember. It was, over the top, fantastic and a blast.

We played lots of games:

The baby picture game...bring your baby picture and try to pick out who is who. The draw what the baby will look like...using a paper plate on top of your head. The diaper game...split into teams of three, take one roll of TP, create a diaper as fast as you can with the WHOLE roll.

The name that tune (title and artist) with 17 songs which have the name Baby or Babe in the title.

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So, with undertaking this adventure we have embarked on some new dishes in the kitchen. We are still g…

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