Banana Cake
1 1/2 cups ripe bananas (2)
2 tsp. lemon juice
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped walnut

Bake the cake or cupcakes at 350 for 15-20 min or until gold. Let cool.

Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup Crisco
1/2 cup butter
1-2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
2-3 tbl. spoons milk

After the cupcakes cool, ice them. Then eat them. Then be happy.

We used a really old recipe we found in a cook book that looked like it survived the nuclear Holocaust. Rather than write the recipe I just took a picture of it. Ariel wouldn't do it justice.

Use that recipe for the dough and then let it rise for 2 hours. Then roll it out flat, make sure to use lots of flour since it is a sticky dough. Once rolled into a long rectangle lightly coat it with butter. Then sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar. In a ziploc bag smash your favorite nuts. We used pecans. Sprinkle pecans on as well. Then we poured on chocolate chips too, because hell why not? Carefully roll it up into a look tube. Turn the tube into a circle then cut openings around it. Pre-heat oven to 375. Place on greased cooking sheet and cook for 30 min.

Let cool and then ice. We used a simple butter, powedered sugar, vanilla, milk icing recipe. Melt half a stick of butter, add teaspoon of vanilla and mix. And 1-2 cups powedered sugar and enough milk to get the thickness you want. For a glaze probably 1-2 table spoons.

Nom.

Ingredients

• Jumbo pasta shells
• Spaghetti sauce
• Ricotta cheese
• Mozzarella cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• Olive oil
• Butter
• Garlic
• 1 egg
• Red wine(for cooking)

Boil water. Cook 20-30 shells depending on the size of the pan you are cooking it in. Pre-heat oven to 375. Heal olive oil and 1 table spoon butter in pan. Add minced garlic. Heat but make sure not to burn. While shells are cooking mix the grated mozzarella and Parmesan with the ricotta. Add spices (salt, pepper, basil) and egg. Stir in most of the olive oil. Mix well. Remove shells from boil, drain, and cool. With a spoon fill the shells with the cheese and place in a pan with red wine, olive oil, and sauce. Cover with more sauce and shredded cheese. Cover in foil and cook for 35 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 5 potatoes
• 4 cups water
• 4 stalks of celery
• 2 cups cream or half and half
• half a diced onion
• 4 table spoons butter
• cheddar cheese
• more cheese

Finely dice the onion and cut the celery. Add to pot with 1 table spoon melted butter. Peel and chop potatoes and place in pot. Pour in just enough water to cover the potatoes. Boil. Mash. Add half and half and the leftover butter. Stir in cheese. Stir in more cheese. More cheese would probably be best.

Carmel Apples

• 1 bag of caramel candies
• 1 table spoon water
• green apples

Candy Apples

• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon red food dye
• red apples
• pinch of cinnamon

Melt. Stir. Dip. Eat. Wash face.

Thanks again everyone who wished me a happy birthday, and if you didn't, then I consider our sham of a friendship to be over.

Disneyland is full of obese tourists with strollers and fannypacks feasting on every morsel they can find. Why should a Disney expo be any different? Some of the best "attractions" at Disneyland are the food kiosks. Bummed you are going to a con and fear you're going to miss out on all the tasty delights the theme parks have to offer? Don't. Disney made sure the most unhealthy and delcious treats from Disneyland were brought over to the con. There were more food kiosks than people wearing socks with crocs.

Upon leaving the press room we were greeted by a kiosk with pastries and popcorn. Disney popcorn. I had to fight with myself to not buy white chocolate walnut fudge for breakfast. Funnel cake, french fries and Mickey shaped rice crispy treats all made an appearance.

Luckily for my ateries, there were fudge kiosks all over.

What heavily ACed con would be complete without ice cream booths?

The gift store even had special carmelled apples.

I will give Disney some credit. Hidden in the booths there was an exhibit handing out free apples and apple juice. Free apples are definitely an upgrade even if Hannah Montana's face was on the juice bottle.

Disney certainly knows food. They also like to lend a helping hand to those in need. Disney, along with several other organizations donated thousands of cans of food to the Orange County Regional Food Bank. I bet the hungry people would rather have a turkey leg though, just saying...

For those who do not adequately stock me here is a bit of background on me and this blog. I'm a 21 year old girl, 100 pounds, and a vegetarian for over 6 years. Despite my little size, I do eat. A lot. Not only do I enjoy eating, I enjoy taking pictures of my food. I'm like a warrior who likes to keep mementos of his kills to relive the battle. I'm exactly like that.

There are over 300 pictures of food in my flickr account. I love to cook and bake. And when I'm not cooking my sister is, she wants to be a pastry chef. We eat very bad. On top of that, like I said, I am a veggisaurus. My doctor recently informed me that vegetarians often have very high cholesterol because after time your body accepts you will not be getting what you need from meat anymore. When this happens your body starts to make its own cholesterol. You end up getting way more than you body needs.

I got my results back. I'm 100 pounds and my cholesterol is 244. My heart may explode before I finish this post. This blog will document the trials and tribulations of my eating habits. I will post the magical pictures here. You will under stand why I have high cholesterol.

Also I will try to lower my cholesterol. Blog Part 2: The Quest for Healthy Noms.

Om nom nom and prosper.