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this saturday was a beautiful spring day– my kind of weather, 60 or so. i have been craving softserve recently, but i also had a hankering for the bent spoon so i split the difference and got a banana whip. for those of you that are not in jersey, the bent spoon has phenomenal artisan ice cream (similar to gelato) and sorbet from locally sourced ingredients; if you find yourself near princeton it is a must visit! for those of you who don’t know what banana whip is, you are seriously missing out! it is amazing how something so simple can be so delicious, but it is just frozen bananas put through a fancy food processor. i have made it at home in my regular food processor attachment of my blender and it wasn’t quite the same, but close enough. you can also make it with pretty much any frozen fruit… it is like soft serve sorbet. mmmmmmm!
are you lonesome tonight? admit it. you’re a hunk of burnin love. you want to put on a pair of blue suede shoes and make your way to the end of lonely street at heartbreak hotel. you ain’t nothing but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time. alright… a little less conversation, a little more action.
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you know how people say “oh, i could do that in my sleep…”? well, i am pretty sure that most of the baking i did this week was actually in my sleep. wait, no. i have barely slept at all this week, so perhaps a trance or a daze would be a better word for it. there are many things in my life that i should be quite proud of, things that truly are impressive, but today… today i am proud that i did not: yell at anyone, punch anyone, rip my hair out, fall down in a fit of tears, fall asleep at my desk, start laughing hysterically for no reason in a meeting with our CEO, or anything else indicative of the mental state i am in. seriously, between not sleeping and some of the people i encountered in my work day (okay, the screaming children at target didn’t help either), i feel like im losing my mind… going bananas, if you will.
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