Banana bread. Have you ever met someone who doesn’t like banana bread? Seriously. It is the best. Sometimes I let bananas “accidentally” get too brown in our fruit bowl and then I “have” to bake them into banana bread. We are banana bread obsessed in this house.
I love experimenting with different flavours of banana bread, like my latest Bourbon Banana Bread. This time, wanting to eat healthier for the new year, I upped the healthy-factor and baked a 100% whole wheat banana bread.
Okay. Confession time. I hardly ever make pancakes for breakfast. Whenever I’m craving a sweet breakfast, we always make our family-favourite Fluffiest Waffles. Because they’re just so darn fluffy and delicious!
But, sometimes you gotta break out of your box. And pancakes deserve some love too! Especially because pancakes are so easily stuffed with deliciousness like shaved almonds and sweet tart cranberries, which really ups the yum factor.
It’s a new year! I hope you had the happiest of celebrations. This year is going to be a BIG one for me - most notably because J and I are getting married in August! (Eek!)
I love the idea of a fresh start, of reevaluating where you’re at, and realigning yourself with what’s important. Although it’s cliched, every January I like to try out a few new healthy recipes and I appreciate my workout routine with renewed enthusiasm (although I detest how busy the gym gets!).
And just like that, Christmas is over! And what a whirlwind it was!
J’s daughter was with us for Christmas this year - she is with us every second year for Christmas (alternating with her mom) and I keep wondering if she’ll still believe in Santa in another two years when she’s 8?! Do you remember when you found out that Santa wasn’t real?
Knowing that this might be her last year of believing, we made sure to be extra festive - we ice skated with Santa, let her eat chocolate for breakfast on Christmas morning, sang tons of carols, did tons of Christmas crafts, and read tons of Christmas books. We also ate our weights in panetonne, pecan squares, gingersnap cookies, and eggnog.
Eggnog waffles!
Raise your hand if you love eggnog.
Raise your hand if you love waffles.
We love both in this house - and as if we need an excuse to drink more eggnog - I swapped out the milk for eggnog in my go-to fluffy waffle recipe that we adore.