Operation: Use the Bananas
June 23, 2009
Yes, we have tons of bananas! And this morning was devoted to putting them to use before the pesky fruit flies started making love to them. And what better an opportunity to get to know Isa’s Vegan Bunch cookbook? So these fermenting ripe ovaries of the Musaceae will be mashed into banana-walnut flapjacks (page 80) and East coast banana-blackberry coffee cake (page 172), which I’ll bring along to tomorrow’s Vegan Drinks at Angels & Kings.
The pancakes were scrumptious! I left big globs of banana so the moist consistency had them tasting a bit more like French toast than fluffy flapjacks. Fine with me! And my addition of pecans made my breakfast super-hearty.
And the coffee cake. Oh gosh, I bimbo-ed out by accidentally having this bake at 275 rather than 375! I blame Colleen‘s podcast which I was listening to intently as I prepped. After I tried a wedge I realized it was still a kick-ass cake.
Stats:
Bananas used: 4