Day 12 of 365

Today ending up being a very busy cooking day for me...lots of things that I wanted to experiment with so....here it goes!

MORNING

I had two bananas that were starting to go bad so I thought I would make one of the boys' favorite snacks...banana bread with chocolate chips...it's more than half gone tonight (and this was just half of the loaf in the picture)!

MIDDAY

I found a book yesterday at the library called Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day.  The whole premise behind it is that artisan-sytle bread dough can be made in larger batches, on the wetter side, without kneading and kept in the refrigerator for up to TWO weeks!  When you want to bake a loaf or rolls, you just cut off a portion of the dough and "cloak" it, let it rise for about 40 minutes and bake.  It was actually quite good...the crust was a little off...I'm going to have to work on that portion a little more but on the whole the taste was great!

EVENING

I fed the boys their favorite of "breakfast-for-dinner" so that Dan and I could try a new recipe I saw on Giada the other day...California Chopped Salad.  It was pretty good but I think that I would play around with the recipe a bit next time

Grilled romaine lettuce, grilled fresh corn, grilled zucchini, grilled green pepper, fresh Roma tomatoes, avocado and grilled shrimp with a light citrus/honey vinaigrette