Line in the sand
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
- Marcus Aurelius
Recipe for bananas
Q loves bananas green, ripe and black. He seems to have a limit of two before the banana mush starts to stick to his mouth and he drools. Because of his fondness, we always buy extra bananas to spoil him. In a good week he might even get 8-10 bananas. Banana bread is a cliché of the Covid confinement, and usually we never have any leftover bananas to bake this treat. But 6 out of the last 8 weeks I was not able to go to the barn and we needed to do something with the black bananas. And I had an abundance of buttermilk getting old. So this recipe for banana bread, or muffins, was born out of necessity and constraint. Please do not tell Q. He knows how to hold a grudge. The recipe is super forgiving and bananas can even be substituted for a cup of zucchini, or mashed squash. Apples would probably work too. Nuts can be added instead of chocolate chips, or they can be eliminated entirely. The key is the slow and low bake. It transforms the bread. That same analogy could probably ...
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