Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles - I Will Create Food!

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Sometimes the simplest desserts are the best.  Ask anyone that has had a S'more.  Some of the best warm weather treats are frozen banana popsicles.  The simple combination fruit and chocolate never fail to satisfy.  To add another layer of awesome to our popsicles, we've started to add a layer of peanut butter.  They are amazing!

You will need:
A couple of ripe bananas
a few tbsp of your favorite peanut butter (we use all natural peanut butter to keep the popsicles from getting too sweet)
one bag of dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips
Toothpicks

First slice the bananas into an even number of slices.

Next add a daub of peanut butter to one of the slices.  Then, using a toothpick, stick a second slice to the top. 

 

This can get messy.

Once you get all of your banana/peanut butter sandwiches made pop them into the freezer for a bit.  It'll help when you dip them.  While you're waiting,  melt your chocolate in a shallow bowl.  

Then start dipping.

I use a spoon to make sure I get a nice even coating.

Put them back into the freezer for a while to harden the chocolate.  After about 15 minutes you will have amazing (sort of) healthy popsicles.

But get one quick....they don't last long around here!

Eat from the Street - Beacon Food Forest

Seattle has long been a place where urban living and nature have coexisted.  We boast being one of the top 10 cities in the US for access to parks.  We are called the Emerald City even.  So it should come as no surprise that planning and construction is underway for an entirely edible and FREE forest of food.  The Beacon Food Forest is underway next door to Jefferson Park in Beacon Hill.  The Food Forest is being designed to mimic a natural ecosystem but substituting edible nuts, fruits, veggies and herbs throughout.   Phase One, consisting of building the fruit and nut tree grove, has already begun.  The Food Forest will progress over the next several years.  If you like to visit and/or volunteer at the Forest, more information can be found here: http://beaconfoodforest.weebly.com/

Explore Imagination - Fantasy Exhibit @ The EMP

There is a inherent draw to fantastic worlds and stories in all of us.  Mythical creatures, epic battles, magical duels...these things fill the stories and games that entertain us.  So the Fantasy exhibit at the EMP is a great peak behind the curtain of the things that captivate us.   With items from The Wizard of Oz to original manuscript pages from The Lord of The Rings (Plus a Dragon!) The exhibit gives a taste of many of the iconic stories from the fantasy genre.  The only downside is you will want more.  As an added bonus, your ticket to the Fantasy exhibit also gives you admission to the Can't Look Away Horror exhibit, the Icons of Science Fiction exhibit and the entire EMP Music exhibit. (we talk about it here)
EMP Fantasy Exhibit