Home in the SoDak

I came home this past Friday for the Memorial Day weekend and am having a fabulous time with my family and friends here in Yankton.  It's been exactly three years since I was home and Briana was not... she was in St. Louis in the summer of 2010 with her FSAP buddies while I spend a lot of time at home after going to Denmark for a few weeks at the beginning of the summer.

Mom picked me up at the Sioux Falls on Friday, we went to the casino in Larchwood, IA (no we weren't big winners, sadly), and finally had a quick but super yummy dinner at Chae's in Vermillion.  They were nice enough to serve us even at 8:50pm (ten minutes before they were set to close).

Yesterday (Saturday), Mom and I went to the Judi's Dance Studio recital.  I hadn't been to a recital since my senior year in 2008!  We had a great time just sitting in the balcony and watching :-) The dancers and tumblers did an absolutely wonderful job.  Congrats to Rob and Timera on an awesome first recital!  Mom and I then picked up Dad and headed to the Pancreatic Cancer (Pan Can) Pub Crawl that benefitted the Lori Groetken Foundation.  It was great to see so many people coming together to share stories (and a few tears too) for such a great cause very close to my family's hearts.  

lettuce

Mom was nice enough to save (and share) some of her Mother's Day present! Very yummy :-)

It is a tough job being the world's cutest dog 24/7

I promise-- they do love each other.

My First Solo Bundt

Too bad it wasn't a squeeze play (please look up 'squeeze play' for your own sports edification if you do not know what I'm talking about).

I think this is the first cake I've made in a bundt pan by myself.  I have no idea if it counts as a 'bundt cake' but I'll go with it.  I was in need of using up some baking supplies and greek yogurt before we move out in a month (!) so I googled banana recipes and found this one.  Side note: who knew you could buy ripe bananas at Kroger and for a reduced price, no less?!?  Ok, now I know and may take advantage of this in the future.

http://bakingbites.com/2013/04/ultra-moist-banana-bundt-cake-with-greek-yogurt/

Here's the link to the recipe.  Other than using 4 bananas instead of 3 and adding mini semi sweet baking chips, I followed the recipe to a 't,' which is an usual occurrence for me. Oh yeah, and it's the moistest banana cake I've ever eaten.  Must be that Greek yogurt!!