Some basic recipes are so delightful that the word "irresistible" is taken quite literally. Today I saw a couple of very ripe bananas in the fruit bowl and my first thought was Banana bread. Not something I make very often and no default recipe so a quick trawl through the myriad cookery books to find a recipe to adapt to ingredients in the house - rain making a journey out to the shops unattractive. An adapted Nigella recipe produced a light, moist and quite wonderful cake. So difficult to resist that three slices were quickly consumed - a lesson to be learned - never bake something delicious then go without lunch, the result being the consumption of three slices in rapid succession.
I am reminded of tastes that seem to need "more than one": olives, anchovies, capers, dark 70% plus cocoa solids chocolate,oysters, mussels, langoustine, strawberries, blueberries, cookies, slices of blueberry pie, lemon meringue, chocolate brownies, crab sandwiches, chips, salt and chilli prawns, cookies, cups of tea.
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