did you ever casually google a casual acquaintance and subsequently discover that he/she is what could be described as famous? uh, yeah - me neither.

after yesterday's fiasco and with today's rain, i did not run today. it is a planned day off from running and on the one hand i could do something else exercisey like ride the stationary bike but on the other hand the stationary bike is sitting in the small stream that is running thru the basement because of the amount of rain we've gotten today and on the other hand i simply don't want to.

instead, i made elvis bread. this is not named for my elvis. this is named for THE elvis - because it's banana + peanut butter. mmmm! the recipe started as banana bread, but mini-me added peanut butter once and MAN was that a STELLAR idea! i like it because it gives me a chance to use the electric hand mixer sweet baby james gave to me like 20 years ago, and because it tastes good, and because it's easy to make, and because the recipe is easy to remember. it's as easy as 1-2-3! or, well, 1-2-3-1/4!!

cream together 1 cup butter + 1 cup sugar.
add and mix well 2 eggs + 2 cups all purpose flour.
add and mix well 3 overripe nanners.
add and mix well 1/4 cup peanut butter. (crunchy is best!)
bake at 300º for 1-1/2 hours.


i usually split the batter into 2 loaf pans. a few weeks ago, i went to find the loaf pans and there was only one and then i remembered that the other was used to provide water to that puppy who came to visit but has since been killed by a car and it was sort of weird to think about that. was the loaf pan sacrificed for nothing, since the puppy is dead now anyway? well, no. of course not. i mean, we're all of us one happy-go-lucky chase after a ton of rolling steel away from death, aren't we now?