coconut and banana cake

We found a kilogram of desiccated coconut in the larder box – no idea why we bought such a huge amount, but it must be used up! There were four small, brown bananas in a box in the fridge  – I read somewhere that they will keep for ages like that, so was experimenting; seems…

wholemeal banana cake

I run a community recipe site called Nibblous, and if you Google for banana cake, you’ll find my friend Jaqui’s recipe is the number one hit, which I’m quite pleased about! I’ve long used a similar recipe to that myself for banana cake, but I’ve refined it quite a bit over the years, and I…

banana muffins – late breakfast

banana muffins – late breakfast, originally uploaded by ramtops. Ridiculously easy – I made just half a dozen for breakfast, to use up some ancient bananas. 50g softened butter 90g demerara sugar 1 medium egg 3 small, tired, bananas, peeled 75g natural yoghurt 120g plain flour 1 tsps baking powder 25g wheat flakes 2 tbsp…

breakfast today

We were bored with porridge, we had four black bananas, and some milk that needed using up, and so … I whipped up a double batch of my tried and trusty banana muffin recipe – I was a bit lazy, and put everything in the Magimix rather than do it separately.  Also I left out…

a brace of banana cakes

Using up: bananas We had a lot of bananas, so I decided to make some banana cake.  And then I realised we had even more bananas than that, so I thought I’d make two, and freeze one.  Better than letting the bananas go to waste, I thought. So I duly made two – it really…

black bananas

I have a number of ways of using up old bananas – these are my usual suspects: grown-up banana bread (by Nigella) banana muffins with sunflower seeds – a staunch favourite, and the batter freezes well banana and bran flake muffins – newly discovered, and meaning I now keep bran flakes in the larder! I’ve…

banana and bran muffins

Who stole the muffin? We always have a surfeit of bananas here – Riverford deliver them regularly, and I’m not a big fan.  We generally make banana bread or banana muffins, and I found a new recipe on the back of the bran flake box that I tried out yesterday for breakfast. I suspect they…

got a banana?

Spotted on Lakeland‘s site today, is a banana transporter. Transport your mid-morning snack to work or school without it looking as if it’s gone five rounds in a boxing ring! Why can’t you just transport it *in its skin*? And what if your banana is not the shape of this contraption.