Wednesday 1 February 2012

Road Trip!

My partner and I have decided to travel the state - I feel it completely unacceptable to discover the world before I've understood what my little island of Tasmania is really like!
We decided to tackle the East Coast this summer, however so far our plans are changing as quickly as we're making them! So instead, we've decided on a no-plan trip and are going wherever the road may take us.
Being low on cash I felt the sensible thing would be to cook a tasty, easy to eat and store, snackable food.
Unfortunately, this only occurred to me the night before we were leaving. Uh oh. That rules out anything with a rising time or anything with ingredients not already in my cupboard: no pulla, no blueberry muffins.
I did some hunting through my recipes and decided on banana bread and brownies! I'm not much of a brownie fan but I've wanted to try this recipe for a while and anything with chocolate in can't turn out too bad. And I've had some bananas in my freezer waiting for me for months.
They were both pretty tasty, my partner admitted he's not raving mad for banana bread, but mine was enjoyable, tasty. He said the brownies were too 'nutty' (aka not enough chocolate), but my brother loved them.

Moist, Travel Safe, Banana Bread
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/The-Best-Banana-Bread/Detail.aspx
1/2 cup margarine
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed banana (about 6 bananas)
2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
Preheat oven to 175 degrees C, line a loaf tin (9x5 inch approx) with baking paper.
Cream margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and soda, stirring until just combined.
Pour into prepared tin and bake for about 1 hour (or until skewer comes out clean).
Remove from pan and let cool.
Note: original recipe states store in fridge or freeze, however it lasted just fine in and out of my eski while on the road!

Happy Travelling Brownies
http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/flat-belly-diet/flat-belly-diet-recipes-82
1/2 cup plain flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp (pinch) salt
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1 egg white
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup choc-chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 175 degrees C, line a small brownie/lamington pan with baking paper.
Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
Combine brown sugar, oil, egg and egg white, and vanilla in a small bowl. Whisk until smooth.
Pour into flour mixture and stir until blended.
Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
Spread batter in a thin layer in the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until firm and inserted knife comes out with a few moist crumbs.
Let cool completely and cut.
Note: I didn't let cool, and these travelled great!

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