Maps!

Little break from the cooking but I was really happy with my last crafty project.

I've always liked the 'Where I've been' maps that you see in hostels, restaurants, and even the online app.  I've looked at a couple different ways of doing it at home.  Including mounting a map on a large cork board, scratch off maps, wall decals ect.  But I found it is hard to make something that doesn't look like I live in a hostel or dorm room.

There is also the problem of framing.  MrFP got a large Asia map, and we had a hard time trying to find a reasonable frame for it's unusual dimensions.
I ended up hanging it with two $1 pants hangers from ikea.

So for my travel maps I chose to break it up a bit.  Since, for the time being, we have only been to three continents, I made three maps.  I google imaged - blank outline maps - and found blank outlines of North America, South America and Europe.  I specifically looked for North America ones with province and state lines.

The colours represent places each of us has been.
Green = me
Blue = MrFP
Red = both of us

They worked out pretty well!  And they will be easy to update or, one day, even add a continent.

Banana Oat Cookies

Like most people I spend an embarrassing amount of time on pinterest. And like all of those people I have a huge list of things to try and do/make, many of which will probably not actually work.  But here is an exception - these were so good!

These cookies have no milk, no eggs, and no butter but still had a cookie texture.

Banana Oat Cookies

3 bananas

1 cup quick oats

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1/2 crushed walnuts

1/2 cup peanut butter

Then you just mash them all together until the bananas are broken down and it starts to look like cookie batter.  I found a fork was the easiest mashing utensil. 

Use a spoon and put your cookies on pans.  I got about 9 good sized cookies out of this recipe.  Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes.

So good! I couldn't stop eating them!  I will be making these a lot, great little snack and a good way to get rid of those extra bananas.