Since I got back to Malaysia in 2009, my domestic and culinary skills have been dying down gradually. Being on my own for about 4 years in the UK, kinda forced me to learn how to cook, clean and all that jazz, and before I knew it, I was a domestic goddess!!!! (I'd like to think so)
Recently, and by recently I mean 2 days ago, besides making inconsistent cookie dough, I've managed to whip out a loaf of BEAUTIFUL banana bread. I think it was inspired by the Chimpanzee documentary I was watching on Nat Geo Wild :)
Unfortunately, this recipe was not created by my innate cooking skills, but cheekily stolen from an amazing banana bread website. It's a website devoted solely to banana bread. It has any banana bread recipe you can think of. But the one I chose was the "Ultimate Banana Bread Recipe". It even has a recipe for curried pineapple banana bread. I think that's taking "fusion" a bit too far. Well, check it out anyways.
http://www.banana-bread.biz/
The other thing I came across was a measurement for butter. Normally you would say 200 grams of butter, or if you want to work with melted butter, you'd say half a cup or something more realistic. This one just said "One STICK of butter". I stared at the sentence for a good ten minutes trying to make sense of this measurement in my head. One stick... does that mean a horizontal stick, a short fat vertical stick (No... that will make it a square), or just the whole slab of butter, which i thought would be a bit too much for just one small loaf of banana bread. Lo and behold, it is an actual American measurement for butter. It equals to 113.5 grams of butter. Oh yes!! I would've guessed 113.5 grams!!! That is a perfect stick of butter. Oh well, it's nice to learn something new everyday.
Anyway, I tweaked the recipe slightly. After finding out that this was an American site, I immediately reduced the sugar amount to half. And of course, ignored pecans in the ingredient list. Well, below are some shots of my pride and joy.
What a beautiful perfect loaf :)
Everyone needs a profile shot.
Looks good, but it tastes better. Pah!!
Yes it was lovely...I can vouch for that!!!
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