Or at least you'd think that if you came to my house in the last week. For some reason my mom bought an EPIC amount of bananas...and had the impression that we'd consume them all before they ripen. I kid you not, there were at least 15. I mean they're awesome and have lots of potassium in them...also a source of magnesium. But there's only so much you can eat all at once. So, I had to get creative with my bananas. Wasting bananas is no good :O
First, on Tuesday I decided to make some Vegan banana bread. Now, I didn't post about this, but the week before I tried making some vegan zucchini bread (I love zucchini bread, but never made it vegan...actually haven't had it in general in like 10 years...dunno why). Anyways, it was an failure of catastrophic proportions and I didn't understand why. I *never* fail at baking :P or until then. It formed a very well defined crust, but the innards were not cooked. It was this kinda strange pudding consistency.
So, I was like "If this banana bread screws up...I dunno what to do".
So, it smells like happy awesome home baking...and comes out like mr. zucchini. Sadness...I mean, it tasted good. I kinda ate it all in one day with the help of a friend...cuz I dunno how long not exactly cooked banana bread lasts.
I was discussing my predicament with another friend. Her immediate reaction was "YOUR OVEN IS TOO HOT!!!!!!". So, now, I've been at this place since June 1 and since then, the only things I've baked until Mr. Zucchini the fallen and Internally mashed banana bread was Baklava and Mango Cheesecake. Those two things don't really screw up much in baking (at least in my experience). So, it makes sense that I didn't notice an oven temperature bias. HAHA! It's not me! I'm no longer the failed baker. Only problem is I don't have an oven thermometer.
So, for my next banana recipe, I said "Screw bread, I'm making cookies". So I did. The temperature called for was 350, I put it to 300. I'd say that the offset is probably about that, because the cookies came out all cooked n what not. But the real test will be a cake in the future. Like actual cakey cake, not cheesecake.
They kinda look like amoeba pseudo cookies muffins though. I say this because they're not round...just funky shaped and super soft. About the consistency of a muffin.
For some reason I didn't save this recipe to favorites...otherwise I would've posted it.
Another thing I did with the last 2 remaining bananas was make a cold banana treat.
All you do is you slice your bananas and then put them in a ziploc bag for the day or overnight. After that you put it in the blender...it has a very melted ice cream consistency and then you can freeze it again. So you kinda make banana ice cream.
I didn't freeze it for long, so it was like banana "yogurt".
So, I cut some mangoes and put them on top of a banana cookie and topped it with that banana yogurt and sprinkled a bit of Fry's cocoa on it. Twas not bad :)
There are still cookies left. But I *hope* my mom doesn't buy any bananas for a while.
Another thing I made yesterday was Fennel and leek soup. At Casa del Popolo I tried their soup of the day, which was Fennel and Green onion soup. Now, I've tried Fennel tea and had fennel in samosas and basmati rice, but never in soup...as what I know as Fennel is fennel seeds and had no idea that fennel looked like an onion with celeri attached to it with leaves that look like dill leaves.
So twas an experiment. I found this recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/120393 and veganized it (because if I can avoid lactaid I will :p)
All I did was replace the 1/3 cup of sour cream with 1/4 cup of soy milk and decided I shall not put parmesan (plus I don't have it :P). You also cut a lot of the calories and fat from the recipe by doing that and it tasted super awesome! Though I think I overdosed on the black pepper/spice a bit. Next time it'll be perfect :D and I can bake some rosemary bread with garlic margarine on top or something coolio like that.
On a side note - I was organizing my bookmarks today. I never realized how many resto reviews and recipes I collected (there's also lotsa music bookmarks mind you :P).
Anyways, I found one review about an El Salvadorian dish or snack? called Pupusas. They tested them at 3 different restos and determined the best one. They're basically like thick corn flour tortillas filled with a variety of stuff. I love stuffed bread! haha.
The review is here: http://hour.ca/food/food.aspx?iIDArticle=13026
So dude man! I gotta go there some time D:
That ends my food post! wheeeeeeeeee
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