come on in and welcome to my home
I'm going to make some banana bread these were the dumpster bananas and they
are really ripe and I was going to eat it fresh but they really don't have much
of a flavor why not make banana bread with them so we're gonna go ahead and
we're gonna use my blender to make this banana bread because I thought let's try
it let's drive the blender and see if it actually works
so my recipe comes from the family dinner cookbook and this is brought to
you by the Mormons pantry family dinner cookbook the reason why I chose this
recipe is because it doesn't call for shortening I didn't have any shortening
I have vegetable oil so that is what I'm going to use so there's four medium
bananas in our food processor to that we are going to add 1/2 a cup of oil I'm
using sunflower oil
two large eggs and my chickens have started laying their eggs are ready
again because spring is almost here and the hours are longer one teaspoon of
salt
what cup of sugar now I'll show you the recipe then
one and a half cups of flour
and the most important ingredient it calls for one teaspoon of baking soda in
some hot water so it's one teaspoon of baking soda with two teaspoons of hot
water gradient is one teaspoon of baking soda into two tablespoons of hot water
and that we put together separately let me go ahead and add that now we're going
to go ahead and pull revise this for just a few minutes
and just like that now we're going to go ahead and add some walnuts
it calls for a half a cup of walnuts I'm going to use a cup because I love
walnuts in my banana bread now we're going to only pulverize this for like a
few seconds because we don't want to chop up the walnuts okay pour them into
these little pans that I got it's cardboard and they bake so nice I got it
at the thrift store many months ago so I believe it's gonna make me two of them
so let's get pouring them into the pants and see how many it makes
honestly I think it's gonna make three of them
it smells amazing now I never tried this recipe before so we'll see how it turns
out
so there you go it made three loaves of bread we're going to pop it in the oven
and it says to put it in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes until knife inserted
comes out clean so in a half an hour I'll get back to you and we'll see how
it baked
look how beautiful faint it's amazing what a beautiful recipe
very frugal it doesn't cost very much to make it so I'm gonna let it cool and we
will give it a taste test and see if it's as good as it smells the verdict is
in this is by far the best banana bread I've ever made I don't know why because
I've made a lot of banana bread but it is so good it's so moist and it is
amazing I hope you give it a try
mmm-hmm some of my children over ant to be honest with you they ate both of them
right away I only have one left now if only I could find some more bananas hmm
nah it's good stuff time for a project
so we're gonna think outside the box once again you don't have money but you
need some things so this is something I'm gonna show you I'm gonna do this is
a grapefruit tree that was planted five years ago by a grapefruit seed but as
you see it's really getting leggy earlier this afternoon I went and picked
up all kinds of sticks for when I cook outside we're gonna see if we can find
some big ones and we're gonna make a teepee that it's going to be able to
support this grapefruit tree so let's get started and see if we can find
something that will fit perfect so they have to be sturdy enough they have to be
sturdy enough and it got to be tall enough so what can I try so I would like
to use this but let me see if I can step on it and break it well good it works
perfect now I'm not sure if this is gonna be high enough no it's not we need
to have something taller than this so we're gonna have to go with something
like this so let's see if we can one like that but they gotta all be somewhat
the same size
Wow there's two of them if I could find one more that would make me happy
well we only have two of them so we're gonna go with one that's a little bit
smaller to help support it we're gonna go like that I'm gonna see if this can
make a difference so we're gonna take the old string away and we're gonna go
ahead and we got some jute string yeah we're gonna go and we're gonna tie it
this will give support I would encourage you to take a grapefruit seed or lemon
seed over on my left is a lemon seed that has grown for seven years and I'll
show you what it looks like take plants from inside you take plants me make
plants take seeds that you have like grapefruit and orange and lemons all of
these things are amazing you can create beautiful plants and it doesn't cost you
a cent so here we go I'm going to put away the
one that I had for the last two years we'll take that outside we'll burn it
this summer when we make some food outside on the fire and there we go now
it's all ready and we have support for it it's my lemon tree
I have celery lemons tomatoes chives all of these things I have growing here just
with one little sunny window and it didn't cost me anything
you
before I begin with Fanny's diary I want to share with you this photo the little
girl Ellen would be my husband's other grandma so it would be on his father's
side she's wearing the striped dress the second child in from the right so she
has a striped fully striped dress on and she's on the second row I thought that
you would enjoy knowing exactly who she was because a few of you had a question
in the weeks ahead I will be sharing with you the few photos that I have of
my family now I have a few of my adopted family and a few of my real blood family
even though they all are plain so I will be getting to them shortly so let's
start with Viennese diary we are on March 9th 1943 remember that anime they
thought she had the mumps well let's hear what fanny has to say doctor Yorick
was here in the morning and it's definitely anime does have the mumps
Pete went to David Elijah's sale so I guess we did find out that anime did
have the mumps and Marion Fanny's daughter had them a
few weeks before so I believe the mumps was really going spreading over this
time