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I make! Banana nut waffle edition

The other day I had some gross bananas.  All bananas are gross to me once they get any sort of brown on them.  Bananas should be eaten when they are still green tipped.

Anyway, I had some gross bananas.  I normally make banana nut bread with my gross bananas but I’ve been trying to branch out.  Banana nut bread is all well and good, but I don’t always want to eat a whole loaf.  I’ve also been curious just how well different types of batters would do in a waffle iron.  So…I made a batch of banana nut bread batter and then dumped it into the waffle iron.

Results?  Delicious.

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But the thing is, because the recipe is for a quick bread and not for a waffle, the results are not quite waffle-like.  I mean, it’s a waffle in shape but not in texture.  The texture is still like that of bread.  Like I said, it’s delicious but not quite right.

So now it’s time to experiment with leavening and also with temperature and length of cooking.  This time I heated the waffle iron to 350degF and left it in for…a cycle.  I forgot to look at the time, but I left it until the iron reached temperature again.  I think maybe I’ll try raising the temperature next time with the same recipe and see what happens.  And then maybe I’ll change the leavening to see what happens.

As it is, it’s pretty good the next day after you’ve toasted it in a toaster (darkest setting on mine).  It crisps up a little and banana bread (or waffle in this case) is always better the next day.

It looks like I’ll have to buy a lot of bananas.

 

On chocolate

I think it’s been well established that I like chocolate (and pizza).

So recently, I started playing a lot of Candy Crush.  Actually, that’s inaccurate.  I recently started playing Candy Crush (late to the party, meh).  And I’ve been playing it a lot.  Mostly because I was trying to find a fairly mindless match 3 type game to help me disengage…and apparently I need to disengage frequently?  Anyway, Candy Crush makes me conflicted about chocolate.

If you play/have played Candy Crush, you know that the chocolate pieces spawn new chocolate pieces if the previous turn did not actively destroy a chocolate block.  That means the chocolate is like an insidious disease slowly taking over your entire board.  And that’s sad.  Because it’s chocolate and chocolate is delicious.  I don’t want to think that chocolate is a disease that’s slowly taking over everything.

But then again, what if actual chocolate would spawn new block of chocolate in real life?  But I don’t mean like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBsPgPu0Wc

  1. Because that’s white chocolate and white chocolate is only a marketing ploy.  It’s just fat and no chocolate.
  2. This doesn’t actually work.  You obviously lose a minuscule amount of “chocolate” each time you do this.

I’m saying, if you didn’t eat a block of chocolate one day, it would automatically generate another block the next day, assuming turns are by days.  That means you could have a never ending supply of chocolate!  That would be one of the best things ever.  EVAR.

But I wonder if this is something that happens for all types of chocolate (minus white).  I mean, I don’t really want a never ending supply of milk chocolate.  Milk chocolate is good now and then, but I really prefer eating dark chocolate.  And I would like baker’s chocolate to have the same spawning properties.  Think of all the chocolate desserts I could make!

Sugh.  If only…but no.  Chocolate is an insidious disease slowly taking over my entire board.  Yay.

I should probably find another (more productive) means of disengaging.