Daniela's Scrumptious Secrets

There was a yum yum yum buzz going on at the Food Matters table during Earth Week. Daniela Weeren offers up her trade secrets so we can bring this simple scrumptious goodness home...

Five Minute Bread (literally so)

Mix together with a spoon

600 gr. Flour

60 gr. Sunflower seeds

60 gr. Flax seeds

60 gr. Sesame seeds

1 package yeast

2 Teaspoons Salt

2 ½ Tablespoons Fruitvinegar

Add 600 ml. lukewarm water

Stir until everything is wet

Pour into a oiled and floured pan

Put it in a cold oven. (do not preheat)

Turn the oven on to 395 F.

After one hour take it out and it is done!

(Feel free to experiment with the seeds in the bread. For the bread on the Earth week Table I used spelt berries, sunflower seeds and rolled spelt flakes…)

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Banana bites

125 gr. Butter

70-80 gr. Brown sugar (the recipe calls for 125 gr., but I found that far too much)

2 mixed eggs

200 gr. Flour (I used Spelt and Whole Wheat)

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1 Pinch of Salt

2 Tablespoons Joghurt or Buttermilk

200 – 300 gr. mashed Bananas (again the recipe calls for more (500 gr.), but it tasted also good with less)

preheat over to 375 F.

Grease a squared pan (20 / 20 cm) and put a squared sheet of baking paper on the bottom

mix Butter and Sugar together until it is well blended together – the longer the better

pour in the eggs and mix well

mix Flour, Salt and Baking Powder in a second bowl

put (or sieve) it into the egg mixture and gently stir together with a wooden spoon

Add the mashed Bananas and the Joghurt/Buttermilk

Pour into the pan

Bake for about 35 Minutes

Take it out and let it cool down for about 10 Minutes

Cut into little squares

Enjoy!

They taste great with Joghurt cheese (let European Style Plain Joghurt (Strauss) drain out over night in a cheese cloth and a sieve. Add a little bit of Agave Syrup to that more firm Joghurt in the morning).