For the first time since I started writing this blog I am working. And thus busy, with less time to focus on cooking, especially when working evenings. We are also lacking a permanent home at the moment, which means getting used to temporary kitchens and using what you have at your disposal. All of which means, less focus on cooking for me right now. It is also incredibly hot in Toronto, 31 but feels like 39 at 9pm! Joy! This also makes you less inclined to want to cook big meals. All in all, several excuses for no entries, none of which is particularly strong or long term! For now, I will write about the last great meal we had which was a communal one at Megan's last weekend. Everyone brought something. It was delicious! The most interesting and delectable part of it was the dessert that she made - banana sour cream cake with caramel sauce! Oh wow! I was camera less, otherwise you would see a photo by now.
She said she just Googled 'banana', 'sour cream' and 'cake' because she knew what ingredients she wanted to use and wanted to find a recipe. She had 6 bananas in her freezer to use and likes cakes with sour cream in them. Makes sense! She also is a 'tweaker' of recipes and used the one she liked best but changed a few things like using all 6 frozen bananas when the recipe called for 4 (though frozen ones do amount to less than regular ones) and using different sized pans according to what she had.
The cake was delicious, so moist and packed with banana flavour. She had also made a caramel sauce to go with it and served it with vanilla ice cream and some raspberries. What a wonderful memory, even as I sit here melting away!
Moral of the story is - Google ingredients to find recipes! I would also recommend Epicurious (epicurious.com) as a great search engine for recipe ideas and how to use up ingredients.
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