Here are this week’s Thursday Things:
1. The Huffington Post ran a featured titled Coconut Dessert Recipes For Cookies, Cakes, and More
And they showcased my Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cake Mix Cookies (Slide 1 in the slideshow)
2. I saw Shelly discuss her kitchen favorites and she mentioned she loves her Butter Bell because it keeps butter fresh at room temperature for 30 days, without refrigeration.
I honestly still don’t really get how this works. I’m in Aruba right now and cannot imagine leaving butter out for a day, let alone a month. If anyone has one of these and wants to elaborate more on it, I’m all butterfingers ears.
3. Have to sign a document but don’t want to print, scan, or fax it? Or if you’re like me, don’t own a printer/faxer/scanner that works.
You can sign it using built-in software from your Mac
Here’s what you do (From this site):
- Launch Preview, and from the Preview menu select “Preferences”
- Click on “Signatures” and then “Create Signature”
- Write your signature on a piece of white paper and hold it up to the camera, try to have it somewhat straight on the blue line and watch the “Signature Preview” pane until you are satisfied with the way it looks
- Click on “Accept” to capture the digital signature
To use it
If you have Windows, use this signature service
4. Yonanas Banana Softserve maker
Freeze bananas, put them in the chute, plunge, and out comes softserve.
5. Or just make your own banana softserve (vegan, GF) in a blender or food processor. So easy.
Or add some avocado for Vanilla Banana Avocado Softserve – It doesn’t taste like avocados in a savory way; just super creamy and rich. Trust me on this one.
6. Pinpuff – There’s a coolness score for everything now, including how cool you are on Pinterest
7. The Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market – This alone would be worth a trip to NYC
8. Candles are expensive and every time I buy a good one, I think why am I doing this?
Now I don’t feel so bad because this Jo Malone Orange Blossom Luxyry Candle is $400.
The scent of clementine leaves in the morning dew sparkles above a heart of orange blossom and water lily, transporting the wearer to a garden oasis. With a stunning bouquet lit across four wicks, the Orange Blossom Luxury Candle envelops a room and lingers for hours to create an ambience of warmth, sophistication and style. It is the ultimate luxury. Candle burn time is 230 hours.
Jo Malone anything smells so fabulous and they do have cheaper candles and room sprays, lotions, soaps, cologne, and tons of things to keep you broke smelling great.
9. Collapsible Beater Whisk, $18
I think I need this, just for the colors
10. I’ve been staring at the ocean and loving every tranquil moment.
What are your Thursday Things?
If you’ve made anything, done, seen, or bought anything fabulous, feel free to link it up in the comments.
If you have any idea how the Butter Bell works, if you think you need a special device to make softserve (I don’t, just use a blender) or have been to any cool flea markets or on any fun trips, tell me about it.
Thanks for the Bella Bars Giveaway entries
I find it surprising how much I use my fax machine, just don’t ask me how to use my scanner ;) That Pinpuff thing is cool, but I’m afraid I don’t need it to tell my how uncool I am on Pinterest.
I used to use our fax machine quite a bit but have had to just…stop. Since it’s on the fritz and I refuse to buy another one. I am forcing myself to just be paperless!
Ahhhh I need that Yo Nana’s banana soft serve machine!! Ahhhh!!! Brilliant!
$400 for a candle? I think I almost fell out of my chair! That butter thing really freaks me out too. But that’s mostly because I like my butter, condiments and even nut butters super cold so that they slowly melt onto whatever hot thing I’m putting them on. Mmmmm
The only thing I do like softened is butter. Everything else, I like cold – same principle as you described!
congrats on being featured! that’s so exciting and definitely well deserved:) hope you’re enjoying paradise!
I’ve seen the Yonanas thing at BB&B and I just roll my eyes.
You need to get a Scentsy warmer! It is so much better than candles, especially with a child in the house. I leave mine plugged in 24 hours a day – no worries about burning the house down and everyone who walks into my house always comments about how great it smells. They have a ton of different vanilla combos too. I have black raspberry vanilla, sweet pea vanilla, cherry vanilla, and vanilla cream and that isn’t all the options. ;)
Congrats on the HuffPo feature! You’re getting so famous!
Lol on the last line. Yeah, when will the million dollar paychecks come rolling in? haha!
I used to have a scentsy and lost it in a move a few yrs back….
Love the ocean! So nice and blue!
Ohmigosh Averie, where was this post yesterday??! :) I had to sign PDF forms for my new internship and it took me HOURS to write my signature, take a picture, pull it up to photoshop, edit, etc. etc. At least I have this for the future!!
girl I was in SUCH a jam with needing a doc signed and had no fax/printer and it would have taken me way longer at kinkos to deal with it so i figured this out!
Congratulations on your coconut dessert feature! And I want a butter bell so badly, my mom had one and they work great.
good firsthand info about your mom and the butter bell!
You’re going to be taunting us nonstop for the next month huh? The butter crock is a neat idea but even when I leave butter out in the summer for baking purposes, eventually it starts to get greasy. Wouldn’t that happen in the crock? Does the water touch the butter?
I am baffled by the thing – here in Aruba butter even in the FRIDGE gets greasy and melty. It’s so hot/humid and the appliances just arent quite the same as they are in the US and things never seem to fully ever get rock solid and I just cant imagine leaving butter out here! I almost want to do it just to try!
That banana soft serve looks, well, bananas! Love me soft serve during the summer months. I hope the weather in Aruba is awesome!
It’s so awesome here (trying to not rub it in too much!)
So cool! I’m in the HP this week as well! For lobster though. Not desserts. :)
Congrats!
From that lobster recipe you made that when you posted about it I left a long comment about my 1 and only time cooking lobster at home (I was pregnant and they were $50 tails from Wfs – eek!)
I saw that slide in Huffington Post’s article, and when I saw it, I got really really excited. I thought, “I know her! OMG- how exciting! Well…. I know her blog!” :) Congrats on the feature. Thought you’d like to know that I was excited to see your feature!
And I want that whisk!!
Awesome to hear from you again, Savannah :) And thanks for noticing the writeup!
I’m still around! :) I decided it was in my better interests to step away from the blog world hands on, but I still keep up with a few of my favorite blogs pretty frequently… though I stay more silent!
I am all about that banana soft serve lately! I like to add a spoonful of PB and eat that for breakfast sometimes haha. Never thought to add avocado, but something tells me I’d LOVE it. I use frozen bananas in my smoothies too, makes them so incredibly creamy. CONGRATS on the Huffington Post feature, Averie! So many features for you lately. You go girl!
Umm, I’m dumbfounded by that butterbell crock….
that is a great breakfast! how can you go wrong with bananas ‘n PB, really! And I almost didn’t mention it but figured, what the heck :)
Look at you, getting all sorts of press these days. I’m glad I’ll be able to say I knew you when. :-)
I blush. Almost didn’t mention it but I was excited about it :)
That butter dish is SO darn cool! Ah! Love your Thursday posts :)
Seriously, I don’t know how that thing works either! It’s crazyyyyy! But I haven’t died of funky-butter disease yet, so…
Also, LOVE Jo Malone.
That butter bell has been driving me nuts trying to figure it out – I totally believe you – I just wish I knew how it worked! Wish I could keep anything fresh like that for a month! Not just butter! Crazy stuff!