05.06

i always seem to find myself getting into an endless cycle of banana bread baking. both jason and i only like to eat bananas when they’re super super unripe (almost green!) and they tend to ripen quicker than we can eat them. so i bake a loaf of banana cake to use up the overripe ones (which uses about three bananas, but we’ll get onto that later) and invariably find that leaves one last unwanted banana behind. then i buy a new bunch, so that i can use up the old banana in a new cake. but that leaves behind a banana from the new bunch, and on and on it goes.
it’s just as well this cake is so totally delicious, or else it’d be quite the hardship to have one on the go the whole time. i struggled a fair bit to get this recipe where i wanted it. it’s originally a hummingbird one, but the first time i baked it both jase and i were like ‘um…where’re the bananas in this banana cake?!’ it only asked for 200 measly grams. that’s like a banana and a half. puh-thetic. so i tinkered with it a few times before i got brave enough to straight up double the amount of bananas, and now it’s oh so good. it’s the sort of cake that looks as though it might be dry, but melts into a squidgy, toffee-like texture when it’s in your mouth. blissful.
n.b. i couldn’t decide whether to refer to this loaf as banana cake, or banana bread. so i just switched it up. oh, and this cake’s best eaten the day after it’s been made, with a cup of coffee and fresh berries on the side. 

(recipe adapted from the hummingbird bakery cookbook)
ingredients: 

250g soft light brown sugar
2 eggs
400g ripe banana, mashed
280g plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate of sofa
1tsp ground ginger
1tsp ground cinnamon
140g unsalted butter, melted
1. preheat the oven to 170 degrees celsius (325 fahrenheit) or gas mark 3. put the butter in a small pan, and leave over a low heat to melt. 
2. mix together the sugar and eggs until well combined, and then beat in the mashed bananas.
3. add the flour, baking powder, bicarb, ginger, and cinnamon to the sugar and egg mixture. mix thoroughly until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated.
4. slowly pour in the melted butter, and mix until combined. 
5. pour the mix into a buttered and floured loaf tin. because of the increased volume of the extra bananas, there will be more mixture than can fit in the loaf tin. just fill the tin up to about an inch or so from the top, then pour the excess mixture into cupcake cases or buttered ramekins to be cooked separately. 
6. place the filled tin into the centre of the preheated oven,  cook for 1 hour. check for ‘doneness’ the usual way, by poking a toothpick/skewer/dry udon noodle (just me?) into the centre and making sure it comes out clean.
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04.06
below: our weekend started (like always) with a dog walk, and an on-the-go breakfast. much healthier than last week’s pancake affair.


below: found this sweet snail making its way along the top of our garden gate. snail anecdote- the other night, jase took teddy outside into the garden to he could go to the toilet one last time before bed. when he came inside, ted got straight into his bed in the kitchen and lay there whilst jase and i tidied the kitchen. after about ten minutes, jase and i noticed that ted was looking at us out of the whites of his eyes and wouldn’t lift his head off the bed. we were worrying, and wondering if maybe he was ill because he just didn’t seem quite right. but as we stood there looking at ted and worrying, he slowly lifted up his head, and spat a whole, live snail out of his mouth and onto his towel. and that explained his shifty behaviour! that dog! he does keep us well entertained


below: we pretend that the reason we enjoy blowing bubbles in the garden is because of how much it entertains ted, but really we enjoy it more than he does!


below: this weekend, we actually went out on both friday AND saturday evening. what?! seriously unheard of for us! it was actually really lovely. we’ve made a pact to be just a little less hermit-esque at the weekends, especially since it gives me chance to wear my favourite pair of heels!

below: the stocks we bought last weekend are still going strong.

below: we had sunday lunch at my mum’s this weekend, and teddy amused himself for ages playing with two plastic pots and a little red ball. watching ted play like he did the other day reminds me of what a puppy he still is.

below: ma cooked a blinder of a roast. just looking at the pictures is making me hungry again…

below: this icecream. oh. man. it’s incredible. you must try it!

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03.06


just as i was drifting off to sleep the other night, jason suddenly jumped up in bed, and turned his head towards the door.

i asked him what he could hear. 

he replied (whispering urgently), ‘listen…it sounds like somebody’s downstairs, trying to move something really, really slowly.’ 

is that not the most terrifying thing to wake up to?! i spent a good ten minutes after that convinced i could hear a burglar slowly opening our front door. horrendous. and far less funny than jason’s last episode of sleeptalking…

p.s. another conversation we had last week was one where jason asked me to stop pouting and pretending to cry every time he says something i don’t like. i thought i looked like this, but apparently i look more like this…;)

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