Sharabelle bakes

Wholemeal Banana Soda bread This weeks "Thank Banana its Friday" recipe is for a healthy wholemeal banana soda bread.  It's bit of a mouth full to say!!!!  Greed was my main motivation for creating this recipe.  I just kept dreaming of  peanut butter spread over warm toasted banana bread mmmmm.  It was so good I had it for lunch, whats not to like.   1.  It counted towards one of my 5 a day fruit & veg.   2. The peanut butter is full of protein    3. The wholemeal is a heart healthy grain.   I went one step further and covered the top with sliced banana's mmm.  I had planned to take a picture, but I really couldn't wait to eat it. I've made Banana Scones in the past, so I knew the recipe should work when converted to a wholemeal soda bread.  I made it totally dairy and egg free, and to give it a lighter crumb I used 1/2 wholemeal 1/2 plain white flour.  You could ...

Breadtastic morning Not all my baking is a total success, just like every one else I have my hits and misses.   Total Miss Chapatti flat bread Tried to make Chapatti's this morning, Try being the operative word.  Iv made them before by cooking them on the hob in a frying pan. They were OK but not great.   Unfortunately I only have non stick pots and pans, to make chapatti's you really need one with a heavy base.  So this time I decided to try cooking them on a baking sheet in my oven.  They were only in for 10 Min's, I flipped them over half way through the cooking time.  They Turned out a bit on the crispy side.  A lot more like a baked tortilla, than an Indian Chapatti.   Still edible but not really what I was going for.  Next time I'm going to try cooking them under my grill instead. Hit -Whole meal Soda bread Also made some whole meal Soda Bread  this morning.  Hadn't plann...