[food] quick notes--
Jan. 12th, 2016 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. Tesco pointed out to me that it's possible to freeze avocadoes. Subsequently A and I found a tray of avocadoes reduced by a ridiculous amount in a supermarket, bought the lot, and peeled/halved/deseeded/froze them. Having made some progress on using them up I can report that they're a little texturally perplexing (and you want to dump lime juice or something on them while defrosting if you don't want them turning brown) but absolutely fine to mash up and put on toast/in guacamole/etc.
2. Thyme pastry and cardamom frangipane as suggested by you lot worked brilliantly, though next time I probably will include a little bit of cinnamon in one or the other of the pastry or the frangipane (and also probably won't have fresh thyme to hand, so). Slightly more detailed notes.
3. Banana bread! You can toast it! And having toasted it you can spread peanut butter and chocolate spread on it and it's exactly like eating a fancy peanut-butter-and-banana toasty, if you're using fancy peanut butter (A makes mixed nut butter from equal quantities of roasted salted peanuts/cashew paste/hazelnut paste/macademia paste bought in bulk; I have started making chocolate spread by combining melted dark chocolate, hazelnut paste, enough hazelnut oil to make it adequately runny at storage temperature, and sugar to taste, because baby brother is lactose intolerant). I contemplated posting a ~recipe~ here and calling it, like, deconstructed mixed-nut banana biscotti and seeing how long it took you collectively to point out that it was, in fact, a glorified chocolate chip peanut-butter-and-banana toasty.
2. Thyme pastry and cardamom frangipane as suggested by you lot worked brilliantly, though next time I probably will include a little bit of cinnamon in one or the other of the pastry or the frangipane (and also probably won't have fresh thyme to hand, so). Slightly more detailed notes.
3. Banana bread! You can toast it! And having toasted it you can spread peanut butter and chocolate spread on it and it's exactly like eating a fancy peanut-butter-and-banana toasty, if you're using fancy peanut butter (A makes mixed nut butter from equal quantities of roasted salted peanuts/cashew paste/hazelnut paste/macademia paste bought in bulk; I have started making chocolate spread by combining melted dark chocolate, hazelnut paste, enough hazelnut oil to make it adequately runny at storage temperature, and sugar to taste, because baby brother is lactose intolerant). I contemplated posting a ~recipe~ here and calling it, like, deconstructed mixed-nut banana biscotti and seeing how long it took you collectively to point out that it was, in fact, a glorified chocolate chip peanut-butter-and-banana toasty.
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Date: 2016-01-12 09:21 pm (UTC)