Banananana bread
For some reason, I found myself really craving banana bread last night. So this morning, I got up and made some!!
I actually went onto foodgawker and searched ‘banana bread’ and out came at least a hundred entries with at least a hundred recipes but who needs a hundred recipes for banana bread? And all of them had captions like ‘the BEST banana bread in the WORLD’ or ‘YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS’ or ‘I know there are too many banana bread recipes around but THIS IS IT. YOU CAN’T MISS IT’ i.e. they were all shouting ME MEMEE LOOK AT MINE in your face which isn’t the most useful thing when you just want one. So I decided, fair person that I am, to be impartial, and went off to find a recipe off google instead. I used the taste.com one, since I find that website to be quite reliable and rather less stress-inducing since they provide ONE recipe for ONE type of food. I thought it went pretty well so I am going to put the recipe here so that next time I can just visit my OWN lj for instructions on how to make banana bread. So there!!
Banana bread
Ingredients:
A:
- 1 ¾ cups Self raising flour
- ¼ cup whole meal flour (All purpose will do)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1tsp cinnamon (though since it’s me I probably put in 184902384093tsp)
B:
- ¼ cup olive oil (or any oil. Just not sesame oil. Or maybe? I felt tempted to use apple sauce but… I couldn’t be bothered to open the new jar so yes.)
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup milk
- 3 small bananas (or 2 medium, or 1 GIANT… or not)
Walnuts or chocolate chips or pecans or anything you think will taste good in banana bread, really (imo, capsicum or salmon may not be prime choices)
Procedure:
1) Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line a loaf tin with baking paper
2) Remove bananas from skins, and mash. I mashed them with a spoon. Trying to press them civilly against the sides of the mixing bowl works for potatoes (see photo- hand mashed potatoes! Gave me a great sense of achievement and a blister on my index finger. Meh), but not for bananas because they slide all over the place. I find that what actually works better is stabbing at them maniacally. The harder and faster the better (hence I think Melody would be a great banana masher.) I think this will be good for stress relief. Or muscle building.
3) Mix A in a separate bowl. Just use a spoon to kind of stir the stuff around, and sneak in some extra cinnamon when mom’s not around (she sometimes can’t taste it, but she doesn’t like it so if she sees me putting it in her willingness to eat it will decrease dramatically. Having said that, butter is a different story. She’s probably as sensitive to the scent- rather, the Odor- of butter as a police dog is to the scent of, well, whatever it’s been asked to sniff out. Though the likeness ends there because my mother will then go as far away from the kitchen as possible, exclaiming loudly how butter is nausea inducing, etc, etc)
4) Add the milk, oil and eggs to the banana mash. I measured the oil out with the measuring cup, and then the milk- and it was really gross, oily milk. Yeargh. But anyway, mix it around so that it doesn’t look like layers moily beggs but some sort of… Mixture
5) Make a well in the middle of A (the flour etc mixture) and pour B (the wet mixture) in to fill the well. Mix in an outward spiral motion the dry and wet mixtures (outward spiral or however it is that you make the well bigger while incorporating the flour into the goop.)
6) Keep adding the wet mixture to the well (do it about 3-4 times) and then mix the stuff together (the reason you want to do it in batches is, I think, so you don’t get nasty clumps of dough cause that’s really irritating). Then roughly mix until you don’t see unruly streaks of flour, but not too hard so it’s smooth and beautiful because apparently that makes your bread more rubbery or something. You could try and tell me.
7) Add whatever you want to add, in my case- walnuts! Yum. I also topped the mixture with some sliced banana.
8) Bake for about 45 min or until golden brown and a skewer (in my case usually a toothpick or chopstick, Asian that I am) comes out clean
9) Let it cool in tin for about five minutes, then take out slice and EAT IT HOT
Yes! It is SO delicious fresh out of the oven. I probably ate 2 meals’ worth of banana bread because it is now 2.30 and I am still not hungry. Oh well. Yes but make banana bread! I think banana bread is underappreciated. When I go out and I see banana bread I’m like. Meh, banana bread. But when I eat it, I cannot help but exclaim, BANANA BREAD!!!!! *cue orchestra
Ok that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point.
I am now uploading photos onto photobucket and there is a banner that says ‘show off your cute bashful smile and vote for your favourite!’ You know the type where girls stare wide eyed-ish into the camera with one hand over their mouths and the other outside the frame because it’s holding the camera? This is great. I like how they all seem to be saying, I'm so shy but I think I look so cute when I’m shy so I will take a photo of myself being shy so the whole world can compare me with other cute shy girls and decide which cute shy girl captures the essence of her cute shyness better than everyone else. And I will derive hours of amusement and inspiration from browsing photos from an international community of cute shy girls who share my profound interest in tentative self admiration and public promotion of said cute shyness
Ummm… ok. And I just sort of realized that my exams aren’t actually even half over yet, so I’d better do some French. À bientôt!!
I actually went onto foodgawker and searched ‘banana bread’ and out came at least a hundred entries with at least a hundred recipes but who needs a hundred recipes for banana bread? And all of them had captions like ‘the BEST banana bread in the WORLD’ or ‘YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS’ or ‘I know there are too many banana bread recipes around but THIS IS IT. YOU CAN’T MISS IT’ i.e. they were all shouting ME MEMEE LOOK AT MINE in your face which isn’t the most useful thing when you just want one. So I decided, fair person that I am, to be impartial, and went off to find a recipe off google instead. I used the taste.com one, since I find that website to be quite reliable and rather less stress-inducing since they provide ONE recipe for ONE type of food. I thought it went pretty well so I am going to put the recipe here so that next time I can just visit my OWN lj for instructions on how to make banana bread. So there!!
Banana bread
Ingredients:
A:
- 1 ¾ cups Self raising flour
- ¼ cup whole meal flour (All purpose will do)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1tsp cinnamon (though since it’s me I probably put in 184902384093tsp)
B:
- ¼ cup olive oil (or any oil. Just not sesame oil. Or maybe? I felt tempted to use apple sauce but… I couldn’t be bothered to open the new jar so yes.)
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup milk
- 3 small bananas (or 2 medium, or 1 GIANT… or not)
Walnuts or chocolate chips or pecans or anything you think will taste good in banana bread, really (imo, capsicum or salmon may not be prime choices)
Procedure:
1) Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line a loaf tin with baking paper
2) Remove bananas from skins, and mash. I mashed them with a spoon. Trying to press them civilly against the sides of the mixing bowl works for potatoes (see photo- hand mashed potatoes! Gave me a great sense of achievement and a blister on my index finger. Meh), but not for bananas because they slide all over the place. I find that what actually works better is stabbing at them maniacally. The harder and faster the better (hence I think Melody would be a great banana masher.) I think this will be good for stress relief. Or muscle building.
3) Mix A in a separate bowl. Just use a spoon to kind of stir the stuff around, and sneak in some extra cinnamon when mom’s not around (she sometimes can’t taste it, but she doesn’t like it so if she sees me putting it in her willingness to eat it will decrease dramatically. Having said that, butter is a different story. She’s probably as sensitive to the scent- rather, the Odor- of butter as a police dog is to the scent of, well, whatever it’s been asked to sniff out. Though the likeness ends there because my mother will then go as far away from the kitchen as possible, exclaiming loudly how butter is nausea inducing, etc, etc)
4) Add the milk, oil and eggs to the banana mash. I measured the oil out with the measuring cup, and then the milk- and it was really gross, oily milk. Yeargh. But anyway, mix it around so that it doesn’t look like layers moily beggs but some sort of… Mixture
5) Make a well in the middle of A (the flour etc mixture) and pour B (the wet mixture) in to fill the well. Mix in an outward spiral motion the dry and wet mixtures (outward spiral or however it is that you make the well bigger while incorporating the flour into the goop.)
6) Keep adding the wet mixture to the well (do it about 3-4 times) and then mix the stuff together (the reason you want to do it in batches is, I think, so you don’t get nasty clumps of dough cause that’s really irritating). Then roughly mix until you don’t see unruly streaks of flour, but not too hard so it’s smooth and beautiful because apparently that makes your bread more rubbery or something. You could try and tell me.
7) Add whatever you want to add, in my case- walnuts! Yum. I also topped the mixture with some sliced banana.
8) Bake for about 45 min or until golden brown and a skewer (in my case usually a toothpick or chopstick, Asian that I am) comes out clean
9) Let it cool in tin for about five minutes, then take out slice and EAT IT HOT
Yes! It is SO delicious fresh out of the oven. I probably ate 2 meals’ worth of banana bread because it is now 2.30 and I am still not hungry. Oh well. Yes but make banana bread! I think banana bread is underappreciated. When I go out and I see banana bread I’m like. Meh, banana bread. But when I eat it, I cannot help but exclaim, BANANA BREAD!!!!! *cue orchestra
Ok that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point.
I am now uploading photos onto photobucket and there is a banner that says ‘show off your cute bashful smile and vote for your favourite!’ You know the type where girls stare wide eyed-ish into the camera with one hand over their mouths and the other outside the frame because it’s holding the camera? This is great. I like how they all seem to be saying, I'm so shy but I think I look so cute when I’m shy so I will take a photo of myself being shy so the whole world can compare me with other cute shy girls and decide which cute shy girl captures the essence of her cute shyness better than everyone else. And I will derive hours of amusement and inspiration from browsing photos from an international community of cute shy girls who share my profound interest in tentative self admiration and public promotion of said cute shyness
Ummm… ok. And I just sort of realized that my exams aren’t actually even half over yet, so I’d better do some French. À bientôt!!