Last week I thought I would bake some cookies... simple recipe and I have used it before and they turn out lovely... but something must have been different this time, Arabian flour for one thing, and Arabian sugar for another!! The mix seemed stodgier than I remember and it didn't behave the way I expected it to... when I plonked lumps of it on the cookie tray... it stayed in lumps and what is even worse, even after baking them they didn't change shape into flat round cookies... they came out in those very same spoldges as they went in!! But... we don't judge a book by its cover, do we? So I tried one... ummmm, ok, the cover of this particular book was trying very hard to tell us something ahead of actually eating it!! Chris came home from work and inspected them, and bless his cotton socks, in the 10 years we have been married he has bravely eaten everything I have ever cooked, so he ate one and then offered to take the rest to work to distribute through the office 'to get rid of them'.... He brought the container back from work after a week... still with splodges pretending to be cookies inside!! He apologised but said he couldn't give them away!! Oh dear, that's my reputation trashed in the new job.... but Chris says its not so bad as now people feel sorry for him and give him stuff that there wives have baked!! LOL
Well, not being one to give up too easily this morning the 3 bananas hanging off the banana tree thingimebob were looking particularly sad and over-ripe and Chris suggested cooking something with them rather than waste them.... so I did a search on the Net and found a recipe for Banana Bread... checked cupboards and had the ingredients so started mixing... it takes an hour to bake banana bread.... that's one entire hour with your house filled with the most delicious baking smell.... then you have to wait for it to cool down!!
So I cut a slice off, take a bite and it is divine!! No ways am I sending this stuff into the office.... it will be nothing short of a miracle if there is any left when Chris gets in from work tonight!!
Well, the cookies may have been an unmitigated disaster, but that banana cake looks utterly divine!! Wish I was close enough to pop in for a slice! :)
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lovely cake, would love a piece hee hee, home made cakes i think always tast so much better, then boughten ones.xx
ReplyDeleteLooks yum - I love banana bread.
ReplyDeletePleased to hear the banana bread turned out well - so cmon wheres the recipe - be nice and share!! lol!
ReplyDeleteElaine
Looks yummy! Is there any left? I am starving!
ReplyDeleteBanana cake is looking good can almost smell it from here. I remeber when I was visiting in-laws in Iran I had the same problem with the flour there. Happy baking!!!
ReplyDeleteOh I love BBread. You can eat a whole loaf in a day - just shave a bit of here and there because it's not really a whole piece, and then - bam! Gone! If it lasts long enough, it's very tasty with custard on too. And of course, it's one of your 5 a day. (I don't know for sure, but I'd like to think therefore that eating the whole loaf could actually be construed as a good idea!!)
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmmmmm, I love banana cake and carrot cake and walnut cake and.....think you have the idea now that I like cake LOL
ReplyDeleteIt looks fab Annette, perhaps you should send a little bit into work with Chris just to prove that your cookies were not an example of your normal skills.
Toni :o)
Banana bread looks absolutely devine. Love a piece with a cuppa (lol)
ReplyDeleteTake care
oooh that looks delightful :)
ReplyDeletex
yummy!!
ReplyDeleteOoooh yummy! I LOVE banana bread, my granny used to make it all the time, along with Madeira loaf - you should try that next :o)
ReplyDeleteThose cookies sound just perfect for throwing at husbands who come home late - if nobody else wants them you can send them my way, LOL!!
And now I'm hungry...again!
You made me laugh out loud about the cookies - and you made my mouth water at the sight of the banana bread. I am over my points on Weightwatchers today, so it's a zero calorie jelly for me! :)
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmmmm Banana Bread ........... love it, but am gutted that in the move I lost my recipe, I had a really easy one that you just bunged everything in and whizzed it with a mixer, gluten free ones are one of the things I will help DH eat lol.
ReplyDeleteThe loaf looks fantastic Annette, gonna have to go a hunting now to find another recipe!
ha ha.... ja, I know how it feels, I battled with my SA recipes in UK, felt as though I couldn't bake. until I started using UK recipes. I do think it is a combination of the flour and sugar, and possibly even the altitude. (Well thats what my grandpa used to tell me about Baking in JHB vs Durban )
ReplyDeleteThat Bannana Bread just looks devine though.... YUMMY, I think I need to bake :) xxxx