Posts tagged "banana"
Banana "Ice Cream"

Banana “Ice Cream”

I think I have excellent willpower. I can pass the candy dishes at work without a second look, turn my nose up at cupcake shops and let the fuss over macarons be just that, a fuss. I’m even fairly (read: a little) successful at rationing any baking I do to a daily treat by putting...

A Tale of Two Loaves: Part I

Every time I go into Starbucks, the banana bread tempts me.  The moist fruit “bread” on the other side of the looking glass tricks me into thinking she might not be cake. But, for all intents and purposes she is.  Made in some industrial kitchen and made to look like all the other slices of...

More Banh, Please

Vietnam still holds me.  I miss the food, I miss the weather, I miss the people, I miss the noise, I miss the energy. So when an opportunity arises for me to somehow connect back to it, I grab on.   At the last book club meeting I hosted, we were discussing a book that took...

I made it, I swear

Having a name that rhymes with banana meant I had to decide early on if I was going to be its friend or faux. I chose friend. As the start of my day, sliced over ice cream, or mashed into muffins, few fruits rival the toothsome give of a banana’s starchy-sweet flesh for me. And...

Comfort on a Snowy Spring Morning

While this is usually the time of year that I prefer to rise and shine to fresh spring fruits and berries, yogurt, and lighter fare, the presence of chill and snow on this Canadian May Long weekend called for something different entirely. I can recall many memorable breakfasts from much warmer, or dare I say...