Cooking Class!!! and Bananas!!!
Hello followers,
I am teaching a course this semester called “Books That Make You Want to Cook.” Tomorrow we are doing an experiment with our recipes. We created them spontaneously, so there really isn’t a “recipe,” but it is what we think will taste good. So that is something exciting in my life. The students are coming along and are making progress in their culinary boundaries!
Anyway, over my Spring Break, I made the most amazing banana bread. It was from Lucinda Scala Quinn’s cookbook “Mad Hungry.” It has this butter and brown sugar topping that caramelizes the top of the loaf. During cooling, I took the loaf out of the baking pan, and some of the banana bread goodness stuck to the pan. I took a spoon to it, only to discover it was a bit of caramelized banana with some cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter.
Of course, bananas in butter with brown sugar and cinnamon are fantastic enough by themselves. Take a few of your far gone bananas sitting in the corner of your kitchen that you forgot about eating last week, and slice them as you wish. I like to cut mine longwise into thin wafers of banana shape. Then melt some butter in a pan, add your sugars and spices, letting it bubble away for a bit, to get that caramelized effect going. Your final step is to place the bananas into this wonderful bath and let them brown to your satisfaction (if you can wait that long).
Enjoy!
