Recipe: Sweet Potato Banana Smashies

I made some suprisingly tasty little snacks for Abe after work today, and thought I would share the recipe. Abe loves "snacks", but it is hard to find things that really are healthy for him. He would eat pretzels and crackers all day long, but it is hard to get him to eat fruit and veggies. So problem solves, Sweet Potato Banana Smashies. Oh the smashies part is because he always ends up with these little smashed pieces in his fists that you have to pry out, and that is kind of what these cookies look like.

Ingredients:
-2 sweet potatoes, cooked and peeled (I used the microwave)
-2 very ripe bananas
-1 t. ginger
-1 t. cinnamon
-1 t. vanilla
-1 egg
-1/3 c. applesauce
-1/2 c. dry oatmeal

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F. I didn't grease the pan, but it probably would have been a good idea, because they kind of stuck on there.

In a bowl, mash the sweet potatoes and bananas, and then add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Spoon small balls of mixture onto the baking pan and bake for 20 minutes. When finished cooking cool on a wire rack. Store in the fridge.

They really are good a little warm, but good cold too. They end up being a little mushy in the middle still, but if they are good enough for Abe, they are good enough for me.

In knitting news I finally gave in to the lace bug that bit me about a month ago. Every day I went to work I would fondle the lace weights and dream about what I would knit. I really wasn't sure what I would knit, and I had a ball of Classic Elite Silky Alpaca, which is about 450 yards, so I wanted something that wouldn't need anymore yards than that. I decided on the Swallowtail Shawl by Evelyn Clark, and once I got the kids to bed this evening I got started. I wasn't able to find my Silky Alpaca, but did find a skein of Habu Textiles Cotton Boucle, which is another lace weight, but 100% cotton, and has a very nice texture. So I am in the 4th repeat of the pattern, and I am smitten.