Banana Rum Bread Pudding

6 or so slices whole wheat bread

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

2 large, very ripe bananas

1 c nondairy milk (I used almond milk)

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

pinch of cloves

1/4 tsp salt

1 c brown sugar

1 T cornstarch

1 shot spiced rum (or more, I won't judge)

Mash the bananas in a large bowl, then mix in everything but the bread and walnuts.  Add the walnuts and bread, making sure to coat all of the bread with liquid.  Let sit as you preheat the oven to 350 degrees and oil a loaf pan.  Add the pudding mixture to the loaf pan.  Bake for 30 minutes, then refrigerate for at least an hour before serving so that it has time to firm.

If you didn't want to booze up the pudding, you could omit the rum or substitute apple cider.

The dude ate it with cookie dough coconut milk ice cream.  Whatever, man.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Many of my friends were born without the chocolate-loving gene; whether this is a defect or the absence of a defect will require further study.  Even the boy won't eat a super chocolatey brownie, preferring applesaucey vegany mildly chocolatey brownies to the ueber fudgy concoctions I will occasionally make.  So, I went in search for a gentle chocolate chip muffin, nothing double- or ultra- or otherwise prefixed.

This morning, I made these, which were these but with a tsp of instant coffee and a half cup of wheat bran thrown in to make them more breakfasty.

And, I took a shitty webcam photo--complete with the shadow of my laptop--of one before I ate it.

Good-bye, breakfast muffin.