Hayley’s Banana Bread

Hayley started to make this bread after a family holiday and each time I make it I imagine I am breakfasting in the sun.
Its a really easy recipe and keeps well for a few days.
Its also perfect for using up those over-ripe bananas

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Day 87

Wow, over 13 weeks into my shop local challenge, time has really flown, and I’ll post a blog on day 90 to summarise, but first what have I been up to this week?  I attempted a lentil roast for lunch on Sunday, I checked a few recipes online but didn’t have all the ingredients, so I decided to just go for it. Unfortunately it didn’t set, even after allowing it to cool, so it ended being lentil mush rather than loaf, but it tasted really good, however I’m not sure the Committed Carnivore is...

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Day 56

Today is the first day I’ve shopped since my last blog post – 10 days ago.  Last night we finished the last of the veg box from a fortnight ago (potatoes and cabbage) along with stuffed burgers I froze a few weeks ago and spicy beans made with some store cupboard essentials. This isn’t that unusual for me, I find periodically I’ll just have so much food in the house (particularly the freezer) that I’ll just have to create meals around what we have in order to make some room! They are...

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Day 46

It feels much longer than 8 days since my last post. So much has happened to me personally and professionally in the last few days, however I can't believe that I'm already over halfway through the challenge. I'm sitting on the train writing this after tucking into a very large cheese and ham baguette from the International  Cheese shop at Victoria station, travelling back from the Love Supreme festival.  The food there was really great, there wasn't one dodgy burger van amongst...

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