banana bath
January 31, 2011
i drink espresso as i deliver this ode to bananas around the world. unfortunately, i have not yet been all around the world to gather countless varieties of the species, Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana or hybrids Musa acuminata × balbisiana, but rather I had three plump bananas maturing in a brown paper bag for over a week that were sweetly singing to me last night. You see, they desired a decadent massage from my fingertips and they also begged to be blended with macadamia nuts, white chocolate chunks, 1 cup of flour, a drizzle of olive oil, cinnamon, clove, a generous sprinkling of madagascar vanilla beans, dried blueberries, salt, baking soda, and 1 beaten egg smoothed over their lovely members. And that is the baked concoction that fuels my fingers to type up this recollection. It should also energize me to pick up the camera and snap a photo of the half eaten masterpiece before it is TOO LATE! Note: I did not add any extra sugar and my official taster and pleaser noticed. The bananas are so sweet and I did not want to enhance, hinder the strong banana flavor at all so I let them be. Let it be.