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The Offspring has been extremely obsessed with the song "Bananamento" from the BBC show Bing.

So, naturally, we had to make it. Here is a bananamento that is The Offspring approved.

For The Offspring's birthday party, we have a mold with 2 of every letter that is meant to be filled with melted chocolate, my guess. We do outdoor birthday parties and the birthday is in late July, so melted chocolate would be melted chocolate still. And so instead, we pour hard candy over the mold and get hard candy letters. They don't melt in the summer heat.

A friend gave The Inconsistent Toddler 1/4th of a meatball and it was eaten with gusto. I may be a vegetarian, but The Inconsistent Toddler is not. I looked at the price of kosher (aka all beef) frozen meatballs at the store: $8 for 18 meatballs. One pound of ground beef is $5. Frugal me says, "Okay, guess I should learn how to cook meatballs."

This is not a completely developed recipe. Cook this version at your own peril; I mean it will make food and good food that The Inconsistent Toddler enjoys, but maybe not perfect-perfect. I will remove this paragraph when I'm consistently happy with the recipe and its results.

My no-fail blueberry pie is the perfect balance of sweet, tangy, and comforting — all without the hassle of a top crust.

See the notes section at the end of this recipe for the simple substitutions one needs to make this vegan.

"We have a bag of matchstick carrots in the refrigerator that is about to go bad. Please do something with them," said The Mister after purchasing said carrots because The Inconsistent Toddler ate some of them one day, once.

I make a killer carrot cake, but why bake a whole cake when I can do the easy portioning of mini-muffins? The Inconsistent Toddler liked them so much, they ate four mini-muffins on the spot. Which is great, because they are otherwise against carrots.