Recipe Flop

Did you ever have a recipe flop? Because you willfully didn't follow the directions? Because it said "ripe" banana and you had one on the counter that was almost yellow? And your delicious pumpkin pie cupcakes end up tasting like banana? Like, really ginger-y banana? Yeah. Happy dessert. Here's the original, along with pretty pictures. It was so cold today, I really wanted something that tasted like fall! 

We also went to Sam's Club because it's free preview weekend. MAJOR BUST. There is a) nothing in that store we eat, b) no way we can EVER use that many wet wipes/paper towels/red Solo cups, and c) the chicken we did buy (hormone and antibiotic free, humanely raised, no rib meat, etc etc) turned into disgusting, stringy, dry, chicken-like hockey pucks on the grill. I want to go back to the good old days -- or to Cleveland market, where EVERYTHING looks good enough to eat!

Also, I stopped for gas, and the pump somehow overflowed my gas tank and spit gas at me (it missed, thank God!) and then I went inside to get a drink and the soda fountain wouldn't stop pouring!!! The clerk had to come hit it with the side of his hand and then it stopped! 

I hope tomorrow is a better day!