Sharabelle bakes

Bananas about bananas This is a re-post of an older blog. I had committed myself to year long mission to experiment making as many recipes as possible with my favourite fruit the banana. Why?....... It all started with as a joke during a conversation with a friend, who noted I seemed to add Banana to a lot of my recipes. I had just become totally Lactose Intolerant to the point that I have to read ingredients labels on foods and prescription pills to make sure they don't contain any milk derivatives. (Some pharmaceutical companies use lactose to bulk out pills, since its cheap) I went back to my research roots and started surfing the net looking for dairy free recipes. What I discovered was the wonderful world of vegan baking, Where I learnt that it was possible to bake dairy and egg free.  Banana's make a great substitute for eggs in some recipes. Perhaps it's because I'm Scottish but baking without eggs is pretty appealing, since it costs less money since I ...

I'm Banana's about Banana's I have to say "Thank Banana's its Friday".  STOP THE PRESS:  - For only the second time since Iv had to give up all dairy products, I was able to eat some home baking that I hadn't made myself.   I had gone to SAMH this morning to get help filling out my latest medical form. It's not the easiest thing to do, Sitting my Open University Social Science exams was a lot easier.  I was kindly offered a slice of Chocolate chip banana cake.  Usually at this point, I'm trying to work out how to decline with out offended the person and going into a long explanation about being lactose intolerant.  Then she said the Magic Words "It's Totally Vegan" I felt like Id won a prize or the lottery.  It tasted as great as it looked, especially since it was baked with my favourite vegan dark chocolate Chips.  It was also highly appropriate eating Banana cake on  Thank Banana it's Friday da...