{"id":523,"date":"2010-04-23T12:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-06-08T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T00:55:29","slug":"choc-chip-banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/choc-chip-banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Choc chip banana bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having spent\u00a0many years working in the\u00a0health and fitness industry\u00a0there was a necessity for me to learn quite a lot\u00a0about nutrition.\u00a0 One of the things that\u00a0I remember from my days in that field\u00a0is a\u00a0quote that explains how our daily food\u00a0intake should be consumed.\u00a0 “Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince and Dinner like a Porper”.\u00a0 In other words, our biggest meal should be in the morning and our smallest in the evening.\u00a0 Breakfast is something that I have never had a problem with consuming\u00a0and actually enjoyed, however eating less food throughout the day is something that I have never seemed to master :).\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the things that G & I love to do is to go out for breakfast.\u00a0 We are both early morning people and neither of us really like crowded places so we usually combine it with a nice drive\u00a0to our location of choice and\u00a0devour our meal\u00a0before most people are even out of bed.\u00a0 G is a coffee mistro so we only go to places that have good coffee.\u00a0 One of our regular haunts is Sayers<\/a> in Leederville.\u00a0 They know what they are doing with coffee, have fabulous cakes and even better breakfasts.\u00a0 Usually we will have a coffee (or two) then take off because we enjoy having a cooked breakfast at home.\u00a0 On occasion (like we did last weekend) we will have something to share.\u00a0 Banana and chocolate bread was the nourishment of choice that morning :).\u00a0 When it arrived there were two thick slabs of in-house made goodness, toasted enough to soften the chocolate and warm the banana whilst still providing that little crunch that you always want from something that has been burnished under a grill.\u00a0 Sprinkled with icing sugar and butter supplied, we were in breakfast heaven.\u00a0 The flavour was that of a not too sweet banana bread with a tiny amount of bitterness that comes from dark chocolate.\u00a0 Needless to say we were almost fighting over the last bite.<\/p>\n

This experience, along with the fact that I still seem to have bananas left over at the end of the week no matter how few I buy and more Lindt chocolate in the house than I care to admit, inspired me to try and recreate this sensational morning feast.<\/p>\n

choc chip banana bread (recipe from Best Recipes.com.au \u2013 adapted by Fiona at Food 4 Thought)
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My tips\/alterations:\u00a0<\/span> *I used 20g less sugar than the recipe suggested because I felt that would create a similar flavour to that of Sayers delight.\u00a0 *I\u00a0broke up\u00a0120g of Lindt 70% chocolate rather than using choc chips.\u00a0 This\u00a0provided a slight amount of bitterness which balanced really well with the ripeness of the bananas.<\/p>\n

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ease: 9\/10.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A normal cream butter and sugar cake method with the addition chocolate.
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\ncooking time: 60mins.<\/strong>
\ntotal: 1hour 20mins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

taste: 8.5\/10.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0In my mind anything that has Lindt chocolate in it has to be good.\u00a0 Luckily G is a little more discerning.\u00a0 We replicated the same thick slabs, toasted to perfection, sprinkled lightly with icing sugar and sparingly buttered.\u00a0 The flavours that hit our palates were that of not too sweet banana\u00a0bread followed by intermittent bursts of rich dark chocolate.\u00a0 We cleansed our tastebuds with great coffee (made by G :)) and our mouths were for ready for the next delicious bite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t get to take our usual drive, nor did someone else do the dishes for us but we did manage to recreate our little piece of breakfast heaven.<\/p>\n

would I make it again: \u00a0Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.<\/strong> – It is devilishly delicious.<\/p>\n

Choc chip banana bread<\/a>\u00a0– Recipe from\u00a0Best Recipes.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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