Iron Chef VJ (sorta)

[Marilyn. 340]

yeah for some reason banana and chocolate are sooo good together...

i think banana boats are something you do when you are in Girl Scouts.. I wasn't in Girl Scouts but one year at family camp they made them and I have been hooked ever since...

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Both recipes sound great, Marilyn. But they give me heartburn, just by thinking about eating it!

It didn't give me heart burn but I think I gained 5 pounds. :lol:

[Marilyn. 340]

Both recipes sound great, Marilyn. But they give me heartburn, just by thinking about eating it!

well definitely not something you want to eat every day

Both recipes sound great, Marilyn. But they give me heartburn, just by thinking about eating it!

It didn't give me heart burn but I think I gained 5 pounds. :lol:

[Nessa 23]

I'm still not sure what to make. I don't really feel like trying the banana cake, cuz I've never done it before and everytime I try to bake a new cake recipe I screw up

Maybe I'll just make banana jam, which is a mix of banana, orange juice, sugar, cinnamon and clove. It's cooked low heat in a non stick pan or pot, for a long time. Then we eat that with pancakes

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

I just made penne bolognese and it was so yummy, I had to share.

I made it with only a little bit of minced meat and added red pepper and carrots. It was really good!

I am making coconut banana pancakes with strawberries for our banana project tomorrow. Let's see how that goes!

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

So here are my Coconut Banana pancakes topped with strawberries and non dairy, low fat whipped cream with a bit of sugar-beet syrup (it's hard to find American style syrup over here).

I used 1 cup of whole wheat flour, mixed it with a pinch of salt, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. In another bowl, I mixed 1 cup of coconut milk (creamy) with an egg and 1 teaspoon of melted butter and mixed it with the flour afterwards. I mashed one riped banana with a litte bit of lemon juice and added that to the batter as well. Let it sit for 20 minutes and then baked the pancakes. I put some banana slices on top of the pancake while baking them.

They turned out ok, but I can't taste the coconut really. It's the whole wheat flour's fault, it tastes too strong.

[Nessa 23]

I want to marry u julia, so you can cook to me things like that

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

Aww Nessa, you are so sweet!

We'd surely have a blast together, eating delicious food and drinking beer!

[Nessa 23]

you'd make me fat and I'd blame you and our marriage would not last

Anyway, did I ever post the pics of my brazilian beef pancakes the other weekend? I was just uploading them now and also, the banana ''jam'' thingy I made this morning to go with buttermilk american pancakes

brazilian weirdo pancakes

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banana jam thingy:

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

Both dishes look fantastic - great photos, too!

So the Brazilian savoury pancakes are like Canneloni, is that right? How is the meat cooked before the pancake gets filled?

The banana chutney looks really good and I am sure your pancakes tasted better than mine!! Honestly!

[Nessa 23]

the brazilian style pancakes would be pretty much like a huge caneloni. You just make a dough mix with oil, milk, flour, egg, etc, then you make the pancakes, that charles would say they're like burritos. Then the filling you can make anything, I usually either make the chicken curry (that has chicken breast, spices, onions, etc, cinnamon and curry, sometimes coconut if I feel like) or I make the beef filling which would be ground beef coocked with the usual peppers, onions, garlic, spices, until it's very brownish and crunchy. Then that time I also decided to make a tomato sauce from scratch that was pretty much tomatoes (no skin no seeds) and spices, pepper, basil, garlic, oregano, etc.

simple stuff.

today i'll be making that ground beef again. I was going to make gnocchi, cuz we were talking so much about it, but it takes so long so i'll just make mashed potatoes with loads of garlics and the ground beef.

[Amby 490]

pancakes look delish jules! I never cook like that anymore because I will eat too much and blow up into a massive blob like that girl on willy wonka

[pedroh 21]

hey today is dia del presidente

no cooking allowed

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

I think Nessa's pancakes look waaaay better. I would have rather had those!

El presidente is right, now cooking today. I have been a naughty girl, what are you going to do about it (being 6000 miles away from here!)?

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

ummmm, I was scratching my head about what to make with bananas, but banana PANCAKES!!! perfect!! Those pic's look delicious!!