Well, between some more sketchiness with the internet (we never did call the cable company to come out and take a look at it because it stopped giving us trouble, but then last week it was being a bit temperamental again), and several weeks of seemingly constant busy-ness, but not much show for it I have not been doing a very good job of keeping up with this blog. There's been a lot going on here the past couple weeks and a lot of stuff I've been doing/working on, but it's been almost entirely prep work for upcoming exciting-ness..... soooo..... I both haven't really had much to post or the time to get on here. But I did promise some summer pie recipes and I'll be sharing one of those today (and it's super easy). But before I get to that I want to share some of the other stuff that I've been working on lately. For one I've got a party coming up that I'm working on, it's for my dad's birthday and he wanted to have a pirate party (which I've been dying to have an excuse to to a pirate party ), but being me I wanted to put a little bit of a different spin on it, and he is well known among his family and friends for the, umm...., interesting ways he likes to style his mustache (he does reenacting and often has the ends curled up dramatically, or pointy, or both) and so this party is a "Mustache Bill, The Pirate" themed party. Which is also great because it takes advantage of the current mustache trend. So of course I've been working on and shopping for all sorts of mustache and pirate themed items. For the party logo I designed a skull and cross-sabres with a mustache. These were the invitations we sent out and you probably can't tell but the "wax" seal closing them has the party logo on it.
I've also been getting everything we need and getting it together for a rafting trip down the river that we have planned to do soon with a friend of ours. I am actually really really excited about this and I'm sure I'll be posting pictures and commentary on the trip soon after. I'm especially excited to be able to be getting out and doing something outdoorsy before summer is over since we haven't even been able to go to the mountains as much as we normally would this summer. It seems like every time my husband had the day off and we would have been able to go either the weather was bad or something else came up that kept us from going. I'm certainly enjoying the fact that we have had a lot more cooler weather this summer than normal, but all the rain that's come with it had kind of put a damper on being able to get out and enjoy it. (But then again I do love storms and rainy cozy days). I think though that some of the summer bucket list items may get pushed onto the fall list, now that we are running out of summer (specifically my "around the world in VA" day/road trips, we haven't managed to do one yet this summer lol).
And speaking of Fall. I am super excited that it's so close (even if there was more I wanted to try to fit in this summer). Fall is probably my favorite season. The temperature is perfect, the food is delicious, it's got great holidays. I have to admit that I've already started working on not only stuff for Halloween (did I mention Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.... I mean you get to play dress up as an adult with no one thinking you're crazy for it, and you get to let your inner goth out... hahaha), but stuff for Thanksgiving too. We have real Thanksgiving at my parents house, but my first Thanksgiving in my house I had a few friends over for a Thanksgiving dinner party a day or two before Thanksgiving and we some-what jokingly called it pre-Thanksgiving dinner (I think it was actually on the day before Thanksgiving that year, and I made a whole Thanksgiving meal). Pre-Thanksgiving dinner is now an annual tradition that is coming up on it's 8th year, and this year my theme is "Glowing with Thankfulness" so I've been working on and planning lots of glittery and "glowing" decorations (glitter, metallic, shiny, candles, etc.). Sometime in November I'll have to post some photos of years past, we've had "Thankful for the little things" (my favorite part of that one was serving cornish game hens as little turkeys), "Thankful for Each Other" (the first year after my husband and I got married), "Enormously Thankful" (I made a giant cornucopia out of a grapevine wreath and grapevine garland and filled it with a giant pumpkin and giant ear of corn and huge leaves and giant grapes....), and last year was "Naturally, Thankful" (by far one of my most awesome decorations to date was the turkey centerpiece I made for the buffet table, that was made all from fruits and vegetables.... it also made it to my parents for real Thanksgiving day to decorate the sideboard)
But anyway, it's not fall quite yet, so back to summer and getting the most out of the last few weeks (or perhaps days with the cool fall-like weather we've had this past week) of it. And to my peanut butter banana cream pie recipe :)
Peanut Butter - Banana Cream Pie
3/4 - 1c. creamy peanut butter (you can use more or less to taste)
1 package banana cream pudding/pie filling mix
milk (amount called for on the pudding package - use the amount for "pie filling", if they don't have instructions for that on the package just use a little less then for the pudding)
pre-made (store bought or homemade) Graham Cracker pie crusts (I've always made it with mini pie crusts so I end up with individual pies, I'm sure you could use one big pie crust too although you might have to thicken the filling just a bit for it to cut very well)
The steps for making this pie are very simple and it really only takes a few minutes of hands on time
{1} Melt your peanut butter in a saucepan over medium heat stirring often
Also when transporting these I have found that the bases fit perfectly into my standard size cupcake carrier, you just have to stagger them since they are wider at the top.
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