Finlay & Sons No 917, Inglewood
Another busy, noisy, cramped cafe that doesn't take bookings - so get up early to beat the breakfast crowd. Our food was fantastic.
Posts Tagged ‘banana’
Low fat banana bread
I was home alone on the long weekend last month and found myself craving banana bread. I’ve made a really yummy banana and orange loaf many times before, but we didn’t have any oranges. I looked in a number of Jac’s cook books and found banana bread recipes that looked good, but they all used […]
Experimental pie
This was one of Jac’s experimental dinners – she cooked up some beef mince and mixed it with vegetarian mince (I know, I know, not TFP food! :-P She bought the vegetarian mince sometime ago and wanted to use it up), bought some frozen shortcrust pastry and made pies! She served me a pie with […]
Fish and chips with squid and a freakishly long banana
I’m not religious, so our decision to eat fish and chips for lunch on Good Friday had nothing to do with giving up meat. We just know after all these years that our local fish and chippie stays open all day on Good Friday, a day when pretty much everything else is shut. I don’t […]
Banana and orange loaf
Last week I bought a bunch of bananas that ripened unbelievably quickly just on the journey home in the car on a warm sunny day. I was in a banana sort of place when I bought them but as the week went on I just didn’t feel like eating bananas, and they sat in the […]
Using batter to block out thoughts of surgery
This was my dinner on the day Jac had her surgery: fish and chips and a banana fritter – delicious as usual, from our local fish and chippie. I tried not to worry or think too much about the surgery, but it was difficult not to, even with these deep fried goodies flooding my senses.
Night-time baking
We’ve had these four over-ripe bananas sitting in the bowl, getting blacker and blacker. I decided last night to do some baking with them before they became completely inedible. I baked a batch of banana mini muffins. I threw in half a cup of sultanas in the mix, and made half of them banana, sultana […]