Today's post is brought to you by the letter Pp.

I am fed up with my wonderful {not really} pots and pans that were hand me downs or cheap pans we got when we got married.

Seriously, I had a handle break on me on one of the said wonderful pots the other day.

I have been thinking about the Rachael Ray pots and pans.

What do you have? Love or hate about them? What do you wish you had or oooo and ahhh over as far as pots and pans go?

Should I go stainless steel or do a non-stick service?

I may get them for Valentine's Day. How romantic! But seriously I would be in love with a great set.

I do have a small skillet from Pampered Chef that I do like, but dh is not going to go through a consultant he will want to be able to walk in to a store, purchase and walk out.

Banana Bread

There were 3 very ripe bananas sitting on top of my microwave this morning so I decided it was time to make banana bread.

It took some looking to find the perfect recipe, the one that didn't call for butter because I didn't have any, but I did find one.

Once I found the recipe the next struggle was to locate the bread pan...couldn't find it. I think I gave it to dh to use for something he was doing in the garage. Oh well. So a searchin' I went for what pan I could use. Before children I would go to garage sales and hit up thrift stores at least once a week. I have a double shelf in my kitchen and I saw the mini loaf pan and thought oh I can make mini-loaves. Got it down, rinsed it off, because it was dusty, dried it, and greased it up.

They were popping over the edges because I probably could have used one more mini loaf to have 7 instead of 6. Total deliciousness!!!

Oreo Balls

These are just a little piece of heaven everyone loved them and they are oh so easy to make.
I first found the idea for them here, Little Birdie Secrets. Then yesterday I got an email from Kraft Foods and they have them there with a different name and some different topping ideas.

I started out using my blender to crush the Oreos but it wasn't working too well. So instead I turned to my handy dandy Tupperware chopper. This is a whole bag of Oreos.

Mix with 8 oz. softened cream cheese. I used 1/3 less fat kind.

Place the balls onto a waxed or foiled lined cookie sheet. I used a Pampered Chef scoop.

All the balls rolled up.

Melt some chocolate for dipping. This is what I used but when I used it all I just melted some of the chocolate squares.

All covered in chocolate.

This was the hardest part for me. I tried using a spoon to let the white chocolate drizzle and sometimes it came out looking like this...

See the big glob on the one to the left and at the top of the pictures.

Put in the fridge for 1 hour and they are ready to be eaten.

No matter what they looked like I still said it was a little piece of heaven. Oh they were so delish! I made them to take to a Christmas Cookie Exchange party for Dec. 23rd and made them again Christmas Day. The 2nd batch I wasn't able to find regular cream cheese or 1/3 less fat so I bought the fat free kind. (Target had cream cheese on sale and that is why I couldn't find the other.) Won't ever not ever buy the fat free kind to make these again. They would not roll up right for me and I had my hands covered in the Oreo/cream cheese mixture.