So, my sister brought home bananas from work to my parents house when we were all visiting together around Christmas. They were READY to be eaten! We ate some of them, but couldn't eat them all. I was looking at them tonight and decided to make some banana bread out of the remnant! Here is the recipe I used (and made).
Adapted from the Spice Islands Banana-Date-Walnut Bread recipe from The Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon. http://www.passionatevegetarian.com/
Cooking spray
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/8 cup lemon juice, or the grated rind and juice of 1 organic lemon
3 extremely ripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup coconut oil
3 tablespoons greek yogurt
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon saigon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 375 and spray your bread pan.
Cream banana, coconut oil, yogurt, lemon juice and sugar. Set aside.
Mix in separate bowl the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix thoroughly.
Pour mixture into your pan evenly.
Cook 40-50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes, then set out on wire rack to cool.
Enjoy!
It's cooking right now, so I haven't tried it yet. The original recipe calls for vegetable oil, walnuts, dates, nutmeg.... as I don't really like nuts and dates in breads, I decided to leave these out... and I don't have nutmeg, so just cinnamon will do, especially a bit more than the original recipe calls for! :-)
I really like this cookbook, as it is GIGANTIC!!! Chock-full of lovely veggie recipes!! I usually don't follow recipes, so mostly following this one is... odd. :-)
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Chocolate Mousse
A couple of weeks ago, I hosted a Wild Tree tasting. They do natural grapeseed oils, spices, ready to go meals that are natural. One of the things I needed to do as a hostess was make sure the sampling packets got made up into the ready to eat formats. We had raspberry cheesecake with graham crackers, chocolate mousse, smoked mozarella and tomato dip with crackers, and then all the grapeseed oil flavors as a dip for bread.
They were all tasty, but I especially liked that the chocolate mousse was so easy. I bought the heavy cream for it before the tasting, and then followed the instructions on the packet. It said to whip up the cream with a hand mixer until it formed soft peaks, then fold in the packet, which contained cocoa powder, sugar and vanilla. It worked famously and was delicious! I decided to try making my own one day..........
So, I bought more heavy cream a little while back, then made a recipe today.
8 oz. heavy cream
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
4 tbsp. powdered sugar
I added all these to my Quick Chef with the whipping blade on. I turned and turned it, checking every so often for consistency. After only a few minutes, it was done! And really yummy... I'm thinking of making it again with carob powder. I think it will be great!
What yummy things have you cooked up recently?
They were all tasty, but I especially liked that the chocolate mousse was so easy. I bought the heavy cream for it before the tasting, and then followed the instructions on the packet. It said to whip up the cream with a hand mixer until it formed soft peaks, then fold in the packet, which contained cocoa powder, sugar and vanilla. It worked famously and was delicious! I decided to try making my own one day..........
So, I bought more heavy cream a little while back, then made a recipe today.
8 oz. heavy cream
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
4 tbsp. powdered sugar
I added all these to my Quick Chef with the whipping blade on. I turned and turned it, checking every so often for consistency. After only a few minutes, it was done! And really yummy... I'm thinking of making it again with carob powder. I think it will be great!
What yummy things have you cooked up recently?
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