Mom’s Banana Bread

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This recipe is subtitled Light in Color. I have no idea why…

1 1/2 cup flour
2/3 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Combine these dry ingredient and add:
3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted margarine
1/3 cup milk
1 egg

Stir but do not over-mix. Batter will be lumpy.
Pour into greased loaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.

The loaf is best after it has been left standing for a day. Freezes well.

Yet another recipe that means you never have to look otherwhere. I will admit that I use Michele’s Banana Muffin recipe for muffins but for a loaf, look no farther. I refuse to eat bananas just as an excuse to make this.

Nancy Cole’s Pancakes

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Best pancakes ever.

1 1/2 cup flour
3 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons backing powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup milk
3 eggs

Beat eggs, sugar and milk and to dry ingredients.
Cook in hot skillet

Some people might question pancakes from scratch, but I have been making and eating these since I was around 10. They are easy and awesome whether in your kitchen or cooking at the campsite. Eat these and you will, never, ever eat a premade mix again. Ever.

Laurette’s Crepe Suzette Pancakes

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The recipe book my mom gave me when I moved out is falling apart so I thought I would post up my favorites for posterity and for Zak, if he ever needs them…

Laurette’s Crepe Suzette Pancakes
2 cups flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons sugar
1 3/4 cup milk
pinch of salt
3 tablespoons oil

Batter will be very thin. Pour small amount into a hot skillet and swirl the skillet to cover and make the crepe very thin. Turn.

You eat these by stacking them. One crepe, some butter, some syrup and cover with another crepe. Repeat. After 4 or 5 (or even 6) cut the stack in half and fold into one big pile. No it’s not traditional, no it’s not even very French, but it is delicious. I have been eating these this way all my life and try and convert pretty much everyone I know to eating them this way.

Great meal to make with the kids as you get several pans going. If there are more than 3 of you, you definitely want a double batch.

I don’t wanna go…

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Because I know you care:
…where Earl wants to go. Earl posted up his top destination so I thought I would pop off a few of my own.

To date, I have ticked off a few of my majors like:
France, Spain, NYC, Port Hardy and the Inside Passage, Nfld, Ottawa and of course Yellow knife. Here are a bunch of the remaining in some sort of screwed-up Bruce order:

1) Yukon/Alaska: I want to see the last great wilderness in NA
2) Churchill, Manitoba: Polar bears, nuff said
3) Yosemite: Big, big rocks
4) Trans Atlantic cruise (or sail)
5) Washington DC: Smithsonian anyone?
6) London and environs: British Museum, British Library, etc., you get the idea
7) Rome: Old things
8) Athens: Older things
9) Egypt: Oldest things
10) Moscow or St Petersberg: Eastern European things
11) Peru: Machu Pichu
12) More Europe: Cathedrals and culture
13) Southeast Asia, but only if I have guide cause I am a chicken
14) India (see 13)
15) Sailing the Caribbean in my own boat

Isshy Wishy Al

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The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh at the Timms.

Old home week really, as it has Sandy Nichols whom I worked with in Brooks, Al Gadowsky who is Laura’s son and Glenn Nelson from Rocky Horror and Stage West days. Supposedly a Synge-ish Irish comedy, I have high hopes.

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Well so far so good. Dollar for dollar, the Studio season kicks most ‘professional’ theatres’ asses…