Nutty Banana Bread!

I made this last night, but aren't photos of my half eaten balanced breakfast so much more exciting? This is a banana bread recipe I found in an issue or Runner's World awhile ago. It calls for walnuts and when I started to measure them out I realized I only had half of what I needed so I made up the rest with pecans. (why do i have pecans in my kitchen? I don't know...) And then i added a handful of mini-chocolate chips because that was obviously a careless omission from the original recipe.

Breakfast and Lunch

Sadly, I eat most of my meals at work. I was actually eating this breakfast when I saw Kim's post and immediately took a picture. and that's why it looks like a bowl of white paint instead of fruit, yogurt and granola! The other pic is lunch or dinner depending on the day. I make a large bowl of it and eat it during the week. Couscous, grapes, walnuts and feta cheese. (I add a scoop of hummus and eat it with pita chips). Yay me :)

Some Nuts

I made the granola recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, you know, the red gingham one? I can't find the recipe online to link to but if you don't have this cookbook you should get it! I don't think I've ever made a bad recipe from it. Anyway, the granola was super good (you saw that coming, right?). I didn't have wheat germ so I subbed wheat bran and left out sunflower seeds because I just didn't want to buy them. I did put in the optional coconut and used cranberries instead of raisins.  

This is a horrible picture of the pesto I made. It tasted pretty good but I didn't subject anyone else to it. My neighbor gave me some basil from her garden the other day and this was the first thing I thought of to make. It's a little untraditional because it's made with walnuts instead of pine nuts but I like it. I have lots of pesto leftover so I may try to make some paninis. What else can you do with pesto?

Go Nuts!

 Peanuts, pistachios, walnuts, peanut butter, nutter butter...if you think it's nuts, go for it!!