The Frying Pan

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user15026

2:48 PM

I love that banana bread can be so quickly knocked together. I don't even use two bowls the way my recipe calls for, I just dump it in one and mash it all about and it turns out. (my parents are doing a safe distance drop off of some groceries and such, so I wanted to have something nice to trade because they are going super out of their way to bring me things, as I live in a city and they live in a rural area)

Stephie

4:14 PM

@Ash Would you be willing to share the recipe with us?

(Pretty please?)

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user15026

5:31 PM

@Stephie Sure! I use this one: bonappetit.com/recipe/julias-best-banana-bread. I usually use three bananas, and I just put all the dry in the bowl, then all the wet, and just knock it all about til it looks mixed. You can add chocolate chips or nuts or whatever you like.

Stephie

@Ash lovely, thanks! Will try it one of these days. Today, the bananas got blitzed with milk and vanilla for a banana milkshake.

user15026

Oooh that sounds tasty

Stephie

The go-to use for overripe bananas in our home.

Blitz, put it straight back into the milk bottle and in the fridge (if not served right away). Also good with cereal, instead of regular milk.

Jolenealaska

5:48 PM

I do that too. I also munch on frozen chunks.

Stephie

@Jolenealaska Frozen grapes! Yum!

Jolenealaska

@Ash I'll try that one. I also love one that's the polar opposite. America's Test Kitchen's fussiest banana bread in the known universe.

@Stephie I JUST discovered those!

I'll never eat them fresh again.

Stephie

6:03 PM

Plans for tonight are less kid-friendly - I have two new bottles of gin.

Jolenealaska

That sounds good too :)

Stephie

Public holiday tomorrow ... ;-)

And a beautiful warm early-summer evening.

Jolenealaska

Be safe!

And have a great time.

Stephie

@Jolenealaska one sip of each, just for comparison. Harmless enough.

Jolenealaska

I wasn't talking about the gin :)

The "be safe" is just a generic covid era thing I've picked up.

Stephie

6:20 PM

@Jolenealaska Ah. Upside of living in a rural area: It’s safe to go outside. And for everything else: Masks, hand sanitizer, distancing and plain old hand washing.

But admittedly versions of “stay safe” has become part of the regular greeting formula here as well.

Jolenealaska

And now: massive civil unrest

In the midst of a pandemic

Stay safe indeed.

I watched a news crew on live TV last night under fire from the police in Minneapolis.

The world is upside down.

Stephie

6:45 PM

@Jolenealaska we are watching it in disbelief.

Jolenealaska

It's crazy to be so 100% in solidarity with the message of the protesters and in actual fear of what they might do.