{"id":1267,"date":"2009-03-27T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:19:41","slug":"a-success-disguised-as-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"A success disguised as failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey &#8211; if White House Press Secretaries can spin, so can I. Because this is really a failure disguised as &#8211; well, pretty much it wasn&#8217;t disguised.<\/p>\n<p>It started out well. Ellyn and Jason had been here the weekend before and I had overestimated their banana requirements, which left us 3 extras. Neither of us is fond of plain old bananas, but we certainly like them baked into fattening sweets. I had just made regular <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=553\" target=\"_blank\">banana bread<\/a> not long ago, so wanted to do something different this time.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nanner.jpg\" alt=\"nanner\" title=\"nanner\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nanner.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nanner-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> Sometimes an idea gets into my head and I just can&#8217;t let it go. Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=435\" target=\"_blank\">Lemon Spice Brownies<\/a>? I thought about that recipe for a least a month before making the first batch, and it took numerous attempts to get them just right.  <\/p>\n<p>The idea in my head this time was to combine <em>chocolate<\/em> with the bananas.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chips.jpg\" alt=\"chips\" title=\"chips\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chips.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/chips-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Some baking cocoa in the batter and then maybe a few chocolate chips&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I did.  Putting together just the right combination of ingredients to yield just what I was looking for &#8211; something moist and dense and richly chocolate.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/loaf.jpg\" alt=\"loaf\" title=\"loaf\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1271\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/loaf.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/loaf-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> Looks mighty tasty doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Well.  Not <em>exactly<\/em>.  3 bananas were too many.  Not quite enough flour.  And I pulled it out of the oven sooner than I should have.  I will spare you the sight of the cut slices &#8211; not pretty.  Not that we didn&#8217;t eat most of it.  &#8216;Cause there were Ghirardelli chocolate chips in there and you don&#8217;t waste those babies.<\/p>\n<p>Still, worth fiddling with.  Just a little tweek here and there&#8230;.  I have a couple bananas ripening on the counter as we speak and sometime over the weekend, I will go for it again.  That is just the sacrificial kind of blogger I am &#8211; anything for you guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey &#8211; if White House Press Secretaries can spin, so can I. Because this is really a failure disguised as &#8211; well, pretty much it wasn&#8217;t disguised. It started out well. Ellyn and Jason had been here the weekend before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}