After blogging about tea on my previous post, it seemed my mind naturally gravitated towards a recipe that goes well with tea. Heaven knows there are about a million desserts and cakes that match well with tea, but I was in a real mood for a classic this time. It’s been a while since I wrote about banana bread. Banana bread has got to be one of the most adaptable recipes out there. You can add things into it, even switch up the ingredients, and more or less it’s going to end up tasting pretty good still. I’ve pretty much given up on searching for THE best banana bread recipe…
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When life gives you an abundance of ripe bananas
It just might be one of the simplest problems to solve in the life of a baker: You open the freezer to find you are faced with not one, but two ziplock bags full of frozen overripe bananas. What would be your next step? Why, immediately run up the stairs and go through that pile of untried banana bread recipes of course. It’s only natural to always be on the lookout for the “ultimate” or “holy grail” banana bread recipe anyway. That would’ve been my reaction on a normal day. Lately, as you might have previously read, I’ve simply been out of it. But I guess fate wanted to find…
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{Dearly Dreaming Dorie} Discovering rum in baking
I’ve never used rum in any pastry before. It’s not because we don’t like alcoholic beverages in the house or anything like that. I admit that I don’t drink, but we do use wine in cooking often enough. All this time, I’ve either been too lazy to go out of my way just to buy rum, or I forget about it whenever I am in the Supermarket. I’ve got a bunch of lame excuses, I know. But in my defense, I had no idea what I was missing out on. Apparently rum is a magical ingredient in baking.
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Low-fat Oatmeal Banana Bread for my soul
I’ve been having such a rotten streak lately and I absolutely hate it. Since my last post, a couple of things happened that have left me feeling like someone drowning in a fountain of emotion, and today finally, I am drained and fatigued. You know how in the height of your emotions, you feel like you have so much fight inside you it could lift a mountain? Well when it ebbs, all that is left is a hollow tiredness. The fight in me just went poof and in a moment I am certain I will begin to realise how much time and energy I have wasted being stupidly upset. Oddly…
