Stitching & Stewing on Sunday IV

My Mom (88) and her gentleman friend, Ken (89), have a favorite restaurant called Mr. & Mrs. J's. We eat there every time we visit them in Devils Lake. When the girls were young, they would color their placemat and leave it there to hang with dozens of others.They are most famous for their 'PigOut' Omelet, however, we have never ordered it. It would probably feed our whole family! Ken and I like their knephla soup. Today we did not have to wait to be seated...last night we waited 40 minutes for a table. We listened to Ken tell fish stories!

We were saying 'goodbye and were on our way by about 3:00.

Because we were traveling, my stitching was limited to what I could do in the car. I finished this scarf and added fringe. This is the super soft yarn that is made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.
While we were driving we saw hundreds...and hundreds of deer along the highway. We stopped three times just to watch them cross the road. This picture is only a small glimpse of how many were scattered in the fields.

While we were at my mom's, she asked me to help her make Banana Bread, as she had some ripe bananas to use up. I brought my favorite recipe for banana bread. Notice it involves cream cheese! So this was my stewing for today...

Banana Bread

1 cup margarine

2 cups sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

2 tsp. lemon juice

4 eggs (1 at a time)

2 cups mashed bananas

1 8 oz. pkg cream cheese

1 tsp. salt

3 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp. soda

2 tsp. baking powder

1 cup nuts

Cream margarine and sugar, then blend vanilla and lemon juice. Add 1 egg at a time. Mix in all remaining ingredients (except the nuts) with the mixer. Fold in 1 cup nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.