Category — food

I’m sure this is a common occurrence in most households: you buy a bunch of bananas and for a few days they are in that perfect state of ripeness and look like something from a food magazine. These perfect bananas are eaten quickly.

By the next day they look spotted and diseased and your significant other named Joe won’t eat the last two.

Uh, not that I know this “Joe” person.

So anyway, you resort to bribery. You offer to make banana bread if he can bring you third spotty banana. You say it as though making a loaf of banana bread is the culmination of your life’s work and desires.

It works of course.

The third spotty banana is brought home and you coo over it as though you made it yourself. Banana bread is baked and then devoured with much enjoyment and large cups of tea.

Plus, positive reinforcement like the above ensures that eventually “Joe” will leave three bananas on the counter to go spotty.

And I’ll bake banana bread to celebrate.

I was browsing on Etsy.com for shops in Vancouver, when I came across Bittersweeets’s shop. She makes the cutest and angriest little felt vegetables and sweets ever.

I showed the link to a friend and he immediately came back with “Salad is Genocide!” – and thus was this week’s Sticky Note Friday born.

Thank you for the inspiration Shaun and Bittersweeets!

These make a fantastic – if messy – dinner.

Joe sometimes refers to them as “sloppy mes”, but in our household they are more often referred to as “that dinner that requires little work and even less creativity”.

Simplicity and laziness is tasty.