Have a Lovely Weekend.

Our favorite banana bread recipe is from Our Best Bites. Yes, it’s Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze, but you can totally skip those two ingredients if you’re a purist, or swap for chocolate chips or nuts. It’s not a fussy recipe and it’s plenty moist without being greasy. Also, freeze your overripe bananas in their skins! Then let them thaw on a plate, snip off the end, and squeeze the liquid banana into the bowl–no mashing required!
https://ourbestbites.com/coconut-banana-bread-with-lime-glaze/

Awww, I worked my a** off on Speed! I worked on the VFX team and it was intense, but all worth it for such a good movie! Glad it comes up again and again!

May I echo EVERYONE and say hell yessss to green walls. I needed a dark background for my WFH office and painted it Vintage Vogue by Benjamin Moore. I loved it so much, I immediately used it in our bathrooms AND kitchen. All the rooms get different levels of light, from almost none to full sun, and I love this green no matter what!

We just painted our bedroom Salamander/Benjamin Moore and are in love.

what’s wrong with “moist”?
PS Fresh Direct makes the best I’ve ever tasted.

I think I’m one of the few people not bothered by the word ‘moist’! I work with plants and it’s used a lot to describe soil characteristics. Sometimes I’ll use it in lieu of other words just because I know it makes people cringe.

Does anyone remember the character Moist on Doctor Horrible’s Sing-along Blog? It absolutely destroys me hahaha

The absolute best, moistest banana bread:
https://www.food.com/amp/recipe/sour-cream-banana-bread-9351

Those travel illustrations give me Madeline vibes! Did anyone else like the story of little French boarding-school-attendee Madeline growing up? “I’m Madeline, I’m Madeline, I may be very small, I’m Madeline, I’m Madeline, But inside, I’m tall!”

I painted my office dark green! It’s a tiny room with virtually no natural light, so it was a deliberate choice to just lean into the moody darkness of the room. It’s Sherwin Williams “Country Squire” and it’s intense. I have dark wood furniture in the room and a lot of lamps. The trim and closet and doors are all white, so that adds a little more brightness and keeps it from being a full on cave.

It’s a good office for focusing, and I use it as a yoga room, too. I find it soothing.

We painted our bedroom Sherwin William’s Roycroft Bottle Green and it changed everything for me. Where before our room was off-white and reflected a lot of the sunlight that came in, the dark green sucks in the light making it moodier and easier to sleep like a little wolf cub in a cave (my dream sleep scenario).

Re dark green paint, my short answer: emphatic yes. Not only do I LOVE having painted two bedrooms and one bathroom a deep forest green (Behr’s Pine Mountain), but it also receives abundant compliments from friends who are designers and artists. A friend who’s a professional painter called my green choice “genius,” and I will probably treasure that compliment for the rest of my life.

I find that the deep green paint just INSTANTLY creates so much emotion in the space, that it does most of the heavy lifting I’d otherwise have spent years achieving (or lots of money to pay an interior designer for) through decor and furniture. It allows me to keep the rest of the room simple, which saves me time, effort, and money. My biggest problem was deciding among several beautiful dark green paint colors!

I’m a big fan of dark green paint! I recently painted our guest room/workout room/my home office Fiddlehead Green (by Benjamin Moore). We live in an old house with lots of natural wood trim, and then we kept everything else in the room pretty neutral (white bedding/curtains, black and white rug), and I love it (and get so many compliments during my online work meetings!!).

We’ve been making Oh She Glows banana bread (as muffins and adding chocolate chips). It’s so moist and delicious…and vegan!
I think the trick is the coconut oil.

OMG have you seen Renovation Husbands green parlor? AMAZING! The colour is Benjamin Moore’s Colonial Verdigris and the whole room is to die for.

Yes to dark green rooms! We painted our den (ceiling and all) Behr Terrarium and it’s my favorite room in the house. The room gets a ton of light and we have a lot of plants, so it actually feels like I’m in a giant terrarium hanging out with all my leafy friends.

I’m planning to paint our kitchen cabinets and I’m waffling between dark green and dark blue. We have a lot of green in the house already, but it’s my favorite color, so I just want it everywhere.

I was trying to remember where I got the recipe for bourbon chocolate chunk banana bread that I made a few years ago, which was amazing…then I realized it was here on CoJ! :)
https://cupofjo.com/2012/03/the-best-banana-bread-youll-ever-have-with-bourbon-and-chocolate-chunks/

Our entryway is dark green (maybe this is a New Zealand only brand, but it’s Resene Kaitoke Green fwiw). It’s beautiful, goes well with a brass light fitting and contrasts with the bright whiteness of everywhere else (especially since the ceiling is a bit lower there).

I make semi-sweet chocolate chip banana mini muffins once or twice a month for my boys. My secret to moist (hee hee) muffins is coconut oil for the fat. The flavor complements the bananas really well and makes for a moist but bouncy texture. They never last 24 hours in our house.

A few years ago we lived in a top-floor walk up with gabled ceilings. We painted our baby’s room Windsor Green (from Benjamin Moore), up to a few inches below the gable. It was the warmest, most peaceful space. Imagine a soft, mossy forest and mid-afternoon light twinkling around…

Dark green rooms are amazing – we did Cedar Path by Benjamin Moore and it’s my favorite room in the house.

Molly Wizenberg’s old blog Orangette has several versions of banana bread and all her recipes have always worked beautifully for me. Highly recommend.
https://orangette.net/ingredient/bananas/

Our bedroom is dark green. It’s large and has great windows for light during the day. At night with our bedside lamps on it feels very calming. It’s our cocoon!.

I once painted my living room a dark grey/green and loved it. Having two very large windows on two walls and keeping the ceiling and window insets off+white relieved kept a balance with the depth of color on the walls.

We painted our bedroom a dark blue and I adore it… but now we’re selling the house and our realtor says we should paint it light gray before listing. I feel so sad thinking about painting over such a rich, lovely color- especially when I read posts like this and see how many people like dark bedrooms!

For anyone with sourdough starter in the fridge, Clever Carrot’s Ultimate Sourdough Banana Bread (https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2020/04/ultimate-sourdough-banana-bread/) has been a game changer for me. I’ve made more banana bread since I discovered this recipe than ever before. (I remain a fan of the Smitten Kitchen Ultimate Banana Bread but usually can’t resist the opportunity to get rid of some sourdough discard.) The sourdough starter doesn’t make the banana bread taste like sourdough–it just makes it taste more like bananas. The texture is also great. Apparently, she based it on a recipe that originally didn’t use sourdough starter, but I haven’t tried it that way.