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 In case you haven't guessed, I love cooking. A while back I did a post for Meg of Queenie take Manhattan about my favorite home made ice cream. Well that recipe has been trumped my friends.

I bring you: 

Elvis Ice Cream

cue giant flashing lights 

It's easy as pie...errr ice cream to make. Usually the ice cream recipes I follow are egg based and extremely tedious. I found this one and with all of four ingredients it was amazing. It is now the reigning king of ice creams in my house. Here's the How-To:

Elvis Ice Cream
1 cup peanut butter (Crunchy or Creamy is up to you. I did halfsies)

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 cup milk

1  1/3 cups heavy cream

2 tsp vanilla extract (Make your own, it's crazy easy and so cheap in the long run)

Half a banana, chopped

1/2 to 1 cup of chocolate chips (up to you how chocolatey you want it)

Combine the peanut butter and sugar until smooth. Add the milk. Blend on low speed until smooth and the sugar is dissolved. Stir in the heavy cream and the vanilla. Chill in the fridge for a few hours.

Put mixture in your ice cream maker and stir for 20 minutes, during the last five add the banana and chocolate chips. I have a Kitchen Aid ice cream maker attachment and very rarely is it thick ice cream after 20 minutes. At that point I put it in a tupperware container and freeze it overnight and then it turns into this:

It's seriously awesome. For the ultimate Elvis experience serve it on a waffle.

Bedroom

I finally got it together enough to take some pictures of the bedroom. There are some things I really love about this room and some I don't. Let's look shall we?

I'd really love to swap out the dressers and have the TV on the other wall but there are only two electrical outlets in this room and of course they're not where I need them to be.

I love the light in this room and the floors. What's not so lovable is the small-ish shape, I mean I've had much smaller so it's not that big of a deal but the layout is a bit odd. See that door? That's the door to the bedroom from the living room. Across from it is the other bedroom and then down the hall the bathroom. So any time a guest has stayed over they've got to open our bedroom door to use the bathroom. Not an ideal situation but living in an older place mean you embrace the quirks.

Back!

Not that I didn't love all the guests that I had for the past two weeks but  oh how I love my empty home!
First we had friends visiting then a two day break in which I did many loads of laundry and cleaned. Then my Mother-in-Law was here for a week. It's nice to have my own bathroom again and sprawl out.

As a result I haven't been able to blog for a while. I'm  going to rectify that right now.

Last Sunday Bob and I hit up the Rose Bowl Flea Market and came home with some goodies.

No big items but some nice ones. Another nudie puzzle (you can check out my first one here), orange tupperware (I swear by these), pyrex, an aqua striped purse, a rad yellow tray and a hand painted sugar skull.

I still haven't hit the Long Beach Flea Market. It's about 30 miles away from me and the prospect of getting up early on a Sunday and driving that far usually loses to my super comfy bed.

Roosevelt Hotel

I've been crazy busy. This week we had friends in from out of town and right now is the one day break I get before my Mother in Law is here for a week. I know what you're thinking but I actually like my MIL. So it will be a good visit.

With all the cleaning prep work to be done for guests, then the clean up after they leave, then more cleaning for new guests I'm pretty exhausted. This post will be all I can manage to eek out until late next week.

While this round of guests were in town we did a ton of fun stuff, namely lunch at the Roosevelt Hotel. This is something I've wanted to do since I was about 12 or 13. It's reportedly haunted and there are loads of Hollywood tales that it was the scene of. It's not what I was expecting though. I always pictured something a little smaller and slightly rundown. It was renovated in 2005 and is super fancy and much bigger than I imagined.

It's big and rambling. The lobby is filled with beautiful dark leather furniture and a beautifully painted celling.

The tile work all over the hotel is exquisite. Super luxe, it was fancy then and is fancy now.

Up next on my Hollywood hotel list is the Chateau Marmont. I am super excited about this. This weekend I'll be hitting the flea market. I hope to report back with some good finds.