BANANA BREAD
Bananas are one of my favourite fruits or even food, what I like most about this recipe is that it helps us use up over ripe banana’s that you would normally throw out. If you do not have time to bake just before they go bad. Peel them and freeze them, when your ready to bake bring them to room temperature before using them. I do not remember where I got my first recipe for banana bread but I adopted this one from Crafty Café
HAPPY BAKING!!
Ingredients
- 3 very ripe medium sized bananas
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine (preferably unsalted)
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup buttermilk (to make your own go to this link)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- teaspoon of ground cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius and grease your loaf pan
Chop up the bananas and butter, Put in a bowl and using an electric beater mix up till they are all chopped up and mushy
Next add all the other ingredients one at a time, ensure it well combined. pulse till just combines
you can Fold in the walnuts or chocolate chip cookies if you want (about a ½ cup)
Put batter into prepared tin
Bake for 55-60mins until a toothpick comes out clean
Cool, serve. HOW EASY IS THAT!! HAPPY EATING!!
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LEMON DHANIA RICE
I love quick fixes. Especially on days when I am DEAD BIT tired. I love it when I can get home from work and just put rice in the microwave let it cook, remove it and just a put a thing here and there and in a few seconds the rice is transformed. By now I am sure you all know of my love for all things dhania (coriander/cilantro) I think I could add dhania to tea if I could 🙂 I learned this recipe a couple of years back from a magazine. I do not remember the name of the magazine so I honestly do not know who to give credit to.
This is an easy way to spruce up rice for a sweet and spicy dish or just to eat. It is important to make this dish as soon as the rice cooks because of the melting of the butter and also if the rice stays the lemon tends to be soaked up by the rice so the flavour is not the same. HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- 1 cup of cooked white rice
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- Juice of 1 large lemon
- small yellow bell pepper diced
- About 1 teaspoon of black pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Cook rice as you normally would.
As soon as it’s cooked put in the butter and stir to melt ensuring it is completely melted well distributed.
Add the lemon juice, bell pepper and dhania. Stir to combine
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve immediately.
How easy is that!!!!
HAPPY EATING!!
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CHILLI BEEF AND SPINACH
I had earlier on in my blog posted that I am not a fun of spinach or any dark greens for that matter apart from Kale( sukuma wiki). Well this is one of the recipes that are weaning me into eating spinach. I still can not eat them by themselves but I guess as long as they get into my mouth and eventually my stomach that should count right???? I loved the chilli flavour in this dish and also the fact that I made it in less than 20 mins. I also had this on its own with no accompaniment and I really enjoyed it. I think it would go great though with either rice or Ugali (Kenyan meal made out of maize meal). HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon of peanut/Sesame oil (this is great for stir fry’s coz it has a high smoke point but if you don’t have regular vegetable or olive oil is fine)
- 400g beef fillet/steak, thinly sliced
- 2 small fresh chillies
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 bunch of spinach, chopped
- 2 teaspoons teriyaki sauce ( when I don’t have this I mix soy sauce with just a bit of brown sugar)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon corn flour
- ½ teaspoon beef stock powder (such as royko)
- ¼ cup (60ml) water
Instructions
Combine beef, oil, chillies and garlic in a bowl and marinate for at least 20 mins (This is optional but adds to the flavour in the meat the longer the better)
Heat oil in wok Add combined beef, oil, chillies and garlic in batches Stir fry until beef is tender
Add spinach, sauce and sugar Add blended corn flour, stock powder and water Stir until sauce boils and thickens
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