Delicious!

I've been getting into cooking/baking and have found a bunch of recipes on recipezaar.com. My favorite things I've made so far are shepherd's pie and double chocolate banana muffins. The muffins are pretty quick to make and they are delicious.

Ingredients

* 1 1/2 cups flour
* 1 cup sugar
* 1/4 cup baking cocoa
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 1/3 cups mashed ripe bananas
* 1/3 cup vegetable oil
* 1 egg
* 1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients.
2. In a small bowl, combine bananas, oil and egg.
3. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
4. Fold in chocolate chips.
5. Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups three fourths full.
6. Bake at 350 deg F for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.

I only have mini muffin tins and the recipe makes about 36 muffins.

Now that I'm getting into baking, I should really find an apron so I don't make a mess of my clothes all the time.

100 Movies

I started this in my lj in January and figured I'd post it here too.. Feel free to recommend some movies to me.

I'm going to try to watch 100 movies I've never seen this year. Shouldn't be that hard because there are lots of good movies around that I haven't seen.


1. Pineapple Express -- weird movie, but it was good 3/5 (1/7/09)
2. Step Brothers -- pretty funny movie 4/5 (1/8/09)
3. The Darjeeling Limited -- pretty boring most of the time 2/5 (1/10/09)
4. Role Models -- very good movie 5/5 (1/11/09)
5. Another Cinderella Story -- alright, but I liked the first one better (1/18/09)
6. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry -- loved it 5/5 (1/24/09)
7. Catch Me If You Can -- long movie, but it kept me interested the whole time 4.5/5 (1/24/09)
8. Stephen King's The Mist -- don't watch it at night 3/5 (1/25/09)
9. Things We Lost in the Fire -- pretty good 3.5/5 (2/7/09)
10. Out of Sight -- 3.5/5 (2/8/09)
11. Definitely, Maybe -- sweet movie 4/5 (2/14/09)
12. Deep Blue Sea -- pretty gory at times 3/5 (2/14/09)
13. Revolutionary Road -- very depressing movie, but it starred my favorite actor and actress 3/5 (2/16/09)
14. High School Musical 3 -- really liked it 4.5/5 (2/19/09)
15. Dadnapped -- alright movie 3/5 (2/22/09)
16. Fools Gold -- good movie 4/5 (3/1/09)
17. Idiocracy -- funny 4/5 (3/7/09)
18. Over Her Dead Body -- cute movie 4/5 (3/8/09)
19. Twilight -- i haven't read the book, but thought it was pretty good 3.5/5 (3/17/09)
20. Mamma Mia -- a little too much music for my liking, but it was pretty good 3.5/5 (4/1/09)
21. Sex and the City -- i've never watched the show, but i still loved it 5/5 (4/7/09)
22. Little Children -- intense 4/5 (4/9/09)
23. Hatching Pete -- average disney channel movie 3/5 (4/23/09)
24. Hannah Montana Movie -- very good 4.5/5 (5/5/09)
25. Marley and Me -- not as good as i was expecting, very sad ending 3/5 (5/7/09)
26. Bride Wars -- cute movie 3.5/5 (5/8/09)
27. Catch and Release -- i liked it 4/5 (5/9/09)
28. Ghost Town -- the ending was weird 3/5 (5/9/09)
29. Slumdog Millionaire -- excellent movie 5/5 (5/10/09)
30. Journey to the Center of the Earth -- unrealistic to the point where it was silly 2/5 (5/10/09)
31. Dan in Real Life -- good movie 4/5 (5/12/09)
32. Bolt -- really cute movie 4.5/5 (5/14/09)
33. The Reader -- interesting plot, but it kinda dragged on at times 3/5 (5/15/09)
34. Burn After Reading -- was a lot different than i was expecting 3/5 (5/16/09)
35. Cloverfield -- didn't really care for it, took 2 sittings to finish it because I got so nauseated from the camera shakiness 2/5 (5/16 & 5/17)
36. Ghost World -- very daria like, but it was a little boring 3/5 (5/17/09)
37. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -- good, but long 4/5 (5/22/09)
38. Baby on Board -- a lot like knocked up, very good 4.5/5 (5/24/09)
39. The House Bunny -- better than i was expecting 4/5 (5/24/09)
40. Iron Man -- i liked it 4/5 (5/25/09)
41. Into the Wild -- good movie, sad though 4/5 (5/25/09)
42. Coraline -- weird, but good 4/5 (5/30/09)
43. X-Men Origins-Wolverine -- not as great as X-Men 1-3, but still good 4/5 (5/30/09)

April Fool's

I don't really like April Fool's day.. I've been hesitant on reacting to everything I hear today in fear that its going be a joke..

I'm home sick from work today. I think the big move really took a lot out of me and I never took the time to recuperate afterwards.

Our house is still looking pretty clean.. We have stupid little ants invading our breakfast bar area, argh.. Jeremy has sealed up lots of little cracks along the wall, but they're still managing to find a way in. I guess that's what we get for buying a house that is pretty much built into the ground.

After a long blinkie hiatus during the move, I'm back into making them again. I came up with some Easter ones a couple days ago and I think this one is my favorite blinkie I've ever made...



It involved combining a couple pixels and recoloring the girl's dress, but I think it came out so pretty!

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