Chocolate Bowls.

Flippin’ brilliant, ya’ll. These chocolate bowls (AKA pudding cups) are made by dipping semi-inflated balloons in a puddle of chocolate. Then fill ’em up with pudding, ice cream, or whatever your heart desires.

Tomato Sandwiches.

{photo and recipe Chaos in the Kitchen}

Sometimes the best things are the simple ones. For instance, tomato sandwiches.

In my mind they’re equated with my grandparents. I always spent summers with them as a kid. Using days to the fullest running around their huge yard, helping my grandmother hang laundry on lines outside, and assisting my grandfather in the garden.

Ah yes, the garden. We’d pick bell peppers, then sit on the back porch with nothing more than his pocket knife and a shaker of salt. The tomatoes were lucky to make it into the kitchen, where they’d be sliced thick and laid out on bread that had been toasted and slathered with mayonnaise and salt and pepper. Like I said… the simple things.

Banana Bites.

I see a batch of these smart little Banana Bites in my very near future. Like Kate of Framed says, it’s a great way to clean out those little bits of things left in your kitchen cupboards – chocolate chips, peanuts, coconut, whatever. And, well, bananas are fruit so technically it’s half healthy, no?