Flat sheet banana cake with chocolate topping

Banana cake or loaf is one way to stop waste and use up your overly ripe bananas if you don’t freeze it on time. Banana is sweet so it’s hard to go wrong. I used alcohol in this recipe to give it and extra zing.  This recipe made a big enough batch to share with my neighbours and I definitely got the “mmmm”  and “so good” response because they all loved it.

Ingredients

Banana cake

·         2 ½ cups of self-rising flour

·         ¾ cup brown sugar (packed)

·         ½ cup white sugar

·         1tsp mix spice

·         1 tsp baking powder

·         3 eggs

·         ½ cup buttermilk (or ½ cup of milk with lemon or vinegar)

·         1 ½ vanilla extract

·         1 cup butter (melted and brought to room temperature

·         2 tbsp. rum (optional)

·         7 small or 4 big overly ripe bananas

·         2 pinches of salt

Chocolate topping

·         200g milk chocolate (good quality)

·         2 tbsp. rum (optional)

·         1 tsp. vanilla extract

·         1 tbsp. butter

·         1 tsp. water

How to cake it!

v  In a bowl, Sift the flour and whisk all the other dry ingredients together. In another bowl, mix the liquid ingredients except the rum.

v  Using a fork or hand mixer, mash up the bananas. Add the wet and dry ingredients together in turns starting and ending with wet ingredients. Add the rum lastly.

v  Bake in a flat lasagne dish for about 30mins or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

v  To make the chocolate topping, place a heat proof dish over boiling water. Put all the chocolate topping ingredients and stir till all the ingredients come together. You’ll notice it has a nice shinny glaze.

v  Once the banana cake and chocolate glaze has cooled, spread the chocolate over the cake. Enjoy

I flipped the cake over before I covered it. Gives a  smoother surface

Enjoy

Enjoy a slice outside

Big Breakfast Baguette

If you are feeling brave enough you can try out this sandwich. It is the combination of some the breakfasts I love. It's got caramelised onions, baked beans, sausages, eggs and the list goes on. I got the inspiration to make this sandwich from combining onion sausage baguette and the English breakfast baguette. The result was amazing.

I will put up a post on how I made the caramelised onion sauce I used for this baguette. It made a huge difference. This recipe is really flexible, you can use a different kind of bread if you like, you can also take out some of the ingredients if it's too much. I couldn't eat all of mine at once but I enjoyed every bit.

Ingredients:

• Baguette
• Baked beans
• 2 eggs 
• Mushrooms
• 1 sausage
• Caramelised onions
• Bacon

Directions:

Clean and cut the mushrooms in slices. Place the mushrooms, sausage and bacon on a baking sheet and bake according to instruction or you can fry alternatively. Fry the eggs to your preference.

Cut the baguette into two, try to scrape out bits of the bread to give room for the fillings. Fill in the baguette starting with the onion sauce, then the bacon strips and sausage, baked beans, eggs and mushroom. Heat in the oven for about 7 mins. Enjoy!

Note;

You may need to cut the fillings in strips to get it to fit into the baguette.

Coconut White Fish Sauce

Hey everyone, before spring comes bursting in i would like to share one of my favourite comforting meals (not that i particularly care about seasons, i eat anything when i want)  my coconut white fish sauce. There are different ways to make fish sauce but i particularly like this one because of its rich creamy coconut flavour. This recipe is one of the ways you can enjoy the goodness of  fish. you can enjoy it alone or with some mashed potato and green peas for a more balanced meal. I made this recipe with some cod fish i had stored in my freezer some weeks ago and it is great with frozen fish.

I also added some oyster sauce personally think that oyster sauce has a way of adding unique flavour to food without being overbearing.

It's warm, creamy and has the goodness of white fish.

Ingredients

• 1 can of coconut milk 
• oyster sauce
• salt
• black pepper
• 1 chilli pepper
• chilli powder
• spring onion
• white fish fillet
• Cumin
• 1 large onions chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic
• half a lemon
• fish seasoning (optional)
• mixed seasoning

Let's make it!!!

First prepare the ingredients. cut the fish to smaller pieces. prepare your seasoning* in a little bowl and mix a teaspoon of cornflour with a teaspoon of water.

In a pot or pan,pour in a tablespoon of oil. add the chopped onions and fry till it's light brown. add in the garlic. Toss in the whitefish fillet and lemon. Give it a good stir and let it cook for about 8 minutes. Add the seasonings and a table spoon of oyster sauce.

Pour the coconut milk, add the spring onions and chilli pepper. and allow to simmer for about 10-15 minutes. then add the cornflour and water mixture for extra thickness (optional).

Enjoy with mashed potato and peas.

I hope you like this recipe. Please comment and follow for more. Thank you
Note:For seasonings, add about a teaspoon of cumin, some sprinkle black pepper a tablespoon of chilli pepper (or suya pepper).
Feel free to adjust the seasoning ratio to suit your taste buds