It is tough to
find things to do in the countryside, especially during the summer when first
of all students are scarce, and secondly when the weather is abysmal. England
has gorgeous coastlines but unless you want to lose your toes, they are
uninhabitable for the main part.
So for me, July ended mainly solo, exercising, gymming and
visiting the horses at our neighbouring farm. Luckily it was followed by this
stack of blueberry buttermilk pancakes and videogames, because the isolation of
Durham really does require escapism to Mushroom City.
I even decided to break into the world of unintentional self-inflicted
domestication, which is both entertaining and, perhaps, healthy in small doses.
Living in a house with a bunch of serial banana-buyers called for me to utilise
the pitied Overripe Ones, so I baked Banana Loaf with cranberries, walnuts and
orange.
As someone who is not keen of the baked products which
bananas usually inflict, my subtle recipe is entirely successful at making
Banana Loaf an actually edible delight.
Ingredients:
Dry:
175g self-raising flour½ tsp baking powder
150g brown sugar
3 medium-sized ripe bananas
50g cranberries
50g chopped walnuts
Liquid:
2 eggs, beatenJuice of ½ an orange
150ml sunflower oil
75g icing sugar
A splash of water
Grated orange rind to decorate
Recipe:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line a loaf tin
with baking paper (it’s very aesthetic).Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, starting with the flour, powder and sugar, then adding the bananas, and then the nuts and berries.
Combine the liquid ingredients and then add to the dry mixture.
Stir well and then spoon into the tin.
Bake for 45 minutes to an hour; it is ready when a knife pulls out from the centre clean.
When cool, cover with icing and orange rind. Voila.
August I believe has great potential. I had a busy time
during the second year of my undergraduate degree, followed by a lot of fun in
June, and August… is the time to really rekindle that motivation and
playfulness, independently.
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