Tuesday 16 February 2016

Bananas past their best!

We arrived home from a great weekend away, walked into the kitchen and were greeted with the smell of over-ripe bananas. Mr Beard immediately grabbed them and said "These are going in the bin". "Oh no," I replied "it's half term, I'll make a banana loaf tomorrow."
So I looked in the beautiful new book I bought with my Christmas book tokens - Homemade Memories by Kate Doran. I found a recipe for chocolate freckled banana loaf. I didn't really fancy chocolate in it, but reading the blurb at the beginning of the recipe it suggested adding walnuts too, so I decided to just do that and omit the chocolate.

The next morning, I went shopping at a budget supermarket. They didn't have wholemeal flour, so I decided as I had frozen peas in the trolley already that I couldn't go elsewhere, white flour would have to do. When I got home I realised that I didn't have brown sugar or Greek yoghurt either!! So I just used caster sugar and 3 tablespoons of the plain yoghurt out of a Muller corner yoghurt! Thinking about it, a recipe using up left over bananas shouldn't really involve buying a lot of other ingredients, so other things got used up too.
The whole thing turned out to be delicious, although I can't really say I used the recipe, other than the measurements and method!


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