Food: A Love Language



What's your love language? Have you and your sweetheart ever discussed each other's love language? 

As a couple, I think it is very healthy to talk and discuss about these things. When Josh and I were engaged, we knew we loved each other very very much. But we also knew we needed to discover and understand how to speak our future spouse's language. One of the keys to not only a happy marriage, but a loving one, is learning how to meet your spouse's need for love. Isn't that a great quote I just made up haha? I believe it 100%.  As we were courting, it became real clear real fast  what each other's love language was through small acts of love. But it became even more clear on how to meet our spouse's need for love when we got married. 

The 5 love languages are:

  1. Words of Affirmation
  2. Acts of Service
  3. Receiving Gifts
  4. Quality Time
  5. Physical Touch

My love language is definitely Acts of Service and Josh learned that quickly. He is continually serving me in more ways than just the usual "doing the dishes" or "taking our the garbage". He cuts up my fruit. Haha does that sound silly? I hate cutting up fruit (especially big ones like watermelon or pineapple) or peeling potatoes or anything of that nature. 
On a more serious note, he shows me love by loving my children. Every day when daddy gets home, we eat dinner and then he gives the kids a bath. Every night. That shows an immense amount of love to me that he cares the kids are clean and happy and that he put it upon himself to take on that night time duty. He serves me by relieving some of the household chores and kid duties. Right after the bath, he spends "daddy and me" time with the kids. They love him so much. As you can see, my other love language is Quality Time.

One of Josh's love language is Receiving Gifts or in other words, receiving food! And good thing because that's how I show my love to my family-I LOVE to cook and bake! He feels so much love and appreciation when I take my time and preparation to cook for him. He also loves it when he has enough to take to work the next day. 

Today I am sharing one of his all time favorite treats, Banana Bread! He does so much for me and our family, I thought today I would show him my love by baking him some banana bread. He's going to love it! *The chocolate chips are an option, but really, it's never an option for us.



Banana Bread

Preheat oven to 350 and grease + flour 9 x 5 pan

Ingredients:

In medium bowl-
  • 4 very ripe bananas, mashed well
  • 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted + cooled
  • 2 large eggs, beaten lightly
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon

Large mixing bowl-

  • 2 cups of flour
  • 3/4 cup of sugar
  • 3/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • *optional cup of walnuts or chocolate chips



Directions:
  1. In a medium bowl, stir in the mashed bananas, yogurt, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon. Mix until all incorporated.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Lightly fold in the banana mixture into the dry ingredients with a rubber spatula until just combined. The batter should look thick and chunky. 
  4. Fold in the walnuts or chocolate chips.
  5. Pour into the prepared 9 x 5 baking pan and bake for 55-70 mins.
  6. Cool for 5 mins.


Enjoy!

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