Breakfast Banana Bread

    I must admit I really enjoy cooking for other people. Not that I don't like cooking for just Steven and myself, but I think it is fun to introduce new healthy foods to people who aren't used to eating the way we do. Having said that, this week has been a fun week for cooking because I've had family hanging around since Sunday!

    Sunday evening my brother and in-laws came for dinner and I served some delicious lentil burgers with garlic aoli, greens seasoned with olive oil and lemon juice, and tomato, all served up on some yummy grilled whole wheat garlic bread! On the side we had some grilled asparagus and cantaloupe, then we finished off with a dessert of vegan/gluten free apple crisp with banana coconut ice cream-yum!

    My brother is still here and I have been feeding him and Steven some good foods to keep up their strength as we have been delving in to all sorts of projects-one of which is the construction of a kitchen island (I'll post pictures when it's finished). Yesterday morning we had some of <this> for breakfast, and it was fantastic! For dinner I made some copy-cat Panda Express Chow Mein which you can find <here>.

    Now to stray from the topic for just a moment, I have to say that I became very excited earlier this week when I purchased four bags of banana's at Aldi and the total came to something under $3. They were only .19 a pound which I thought was great, but still thought it would be real expensive in the end with tax and all that. However, after purchasing I realized, Hey, they don't tax food around here, this is fantastic! I can't wait to buy bananas again! So in short, I'm going banana's over my banana's...ha ha...ha. 

    Gearing back to my original topic, this morning I made some sweet, soft, and warm banana bread and decided to get a little creative with it for breakfast. Here is what happened:

Banana Bread Breakfast

Ingredients:

Banana Bread (I used <this> recipe, but added ground flax, oat bran, and wheat bran)

Blueberries

Strawberries

Earth Balance Butter

coconut milk foam (let a can of coconut milk sit in the fridge over night, open without shaking and scraped the foam off the top)

Directions:

1) Put a pat of butter on top of the warm banana bread and let it melt in. 2)Slice up the strawberries and arrange them on top, then drop of a few blueberries on top as well. 3) Plop a small spoonful of the coconut "whip cream" on top and wala!