Sunday morning
Oct. 2nd, 2011 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithBiweekly banana bread bakeage–aka “4B morning”–using the old faithful recipe. I love this recipe because it’s so flexible. I can use fewer bananas and get a more cake-like bread, or more to get something really moist. There is an upper limit past which one winds up with goo, but I have yet to hit it. I do substitute white w/w flour for half the all-purpose. This way, I can add a little more moisture without worrying about goo. The w/w soaks it up.
Another thing I like is that I can vary the additives to my heart’s content. Chocolate chips work, but to be honest I prefer spices/nuts/dried fruit. This morning’s variety contains cinnamon, allspice, ground ginger, and mace. I also added 1/3 c. ginger chips, a 1/2 c. or so of raisins, and 2 tbsps dark rum. At this point, it pretty much stops being banana bread and becomes something fruitcakey. I typically let it sit at least 24 hours before cutting into it to give the flavors time to develop. The banana functions as a humectant–it grabs the moisture from the air and hangs onto it for dear life. This bread can last up to 2 weeks on my counter with no loss in taste.
A gorgeous morning, cool but sunny. Tomatoes are still hanging on. Bell peppers are trying–one plant has a pepper about an inch or so long. I doubt it will develop before the first frost, though. Peppers as a whole just didn’t do well this summer.
Oh well, enough of this. It’s thinky time.
Mirrored from Kristine Smith.
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Date: 2011-10-02 04:14 pm (UTC)Early morning frost will hit sometime in the next couple of mornings and I think it'll end the tomato plants last rally of trying to produce. I think I got 10 edible cherry tomatoes off one plant, the roma is covered with green fruit as is one of the heirlooms. We just won't get enough warmth and sun before the frost to ripen them up.
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Date: 2011-10-02 10:35 pm (UTC)Although on another list, a poster said that it's an Italian practice to uproot the entire plant and hang it somewhere so that the tomatoes can continue to vine-ripen as along as possible.
I have noticed that just in general, tomatoes last longer if I keep some stem attached. If the "navel" area is exposed, that's where the mold hits first.
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