Potluck...

[senoritafish]

The office smells of food this morning. We have a potluck lunch the week before Thanksgiving, and I was up til after midnight last night making banana bread. I was so smart, thinking we had enough overripe bananas to make a double batch, then I thought "crap, I don't have a bowl big enough to mix this all up in!" John came to my rescue with the giant Tupperware bowl we use for taking salads to outings. It was plenty big enough for batter for four loaves. Whew! And my shoulder is sore from mixing. I baked three loaves last night, and another can be thrown in the oven this morning. Heh, we ate half a loaf for breakfast!

I always use the recipe from Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook. It's quite yummy. My brother introduced me to this cookbook ages ago, and I still love all the recipes written out in longhand with the doodles drawn around them. We have The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, too.

Oh, and some critter must have run up my sleeve and chomped on me; I discovered a big painful welt on my elbow as I finished. Seems to be mostly gone now, although it still feels a bit irritated.

Comments

[calypso72]

Love Molly Katzen. She used to have a cooking show on PBS and we never missed it.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Wow, I never knew she had a show - I'd like to have seen it.

[dipster.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I hate potlucks. Mostly because I usually work with mostly guys who can't cook.

I'm sorely tempted to bring in a durian to kill off all hope of any more potlucks. :)

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm sick, but I've always wanted to try durian. Then again, I couldn't quite handle limberger cheese...

So what's the problem? People bring in fast food? or just really badly cooked stuff? At least no one's required to attend them here, you can do something else for lunch if you want...