At the start of this brand new year I feel that there is less "new year, new you, a healthy start" and more "comfort food" still around. One can ponder why this is but personally, let’s just say that I have more or less given up watching the news and listen to my favourite music instead.
Recently I have not baked anything new to post about but have worked my way through old favourites. I might pinch an idea from one of my favourite blogs, Lavender and Lovage, and do a little post about my own favourite recipes of 2024.
My mum was fond of a banana sandwich. She would walk home from work every lunchtime, a distance of about a quarter of a mile, for her "dinner". When my grandmother was alive and we all lived in the same house, this would be something cooked by her. After she died my mum would have some kind of snack. I never asked why she preferred to do this rather than eat in the works canteen but suspect that she liked a bit of her own space away from the chatter and clatter of her workmates. Also, probably, to save a few shillings a week. My dad went to work with home made sandwiches and a bun every day and she would have a snack and a bun at home. Except that when she was "on a diet" she would resist the bun!
Her favourite snacks included cheese (cheddar or cheshire) and Jacob's cream crackers, toast and jam, a lettuce and tomato or potted beef sandwich or, if there were still any left in the fruit bowl, a banana sandwich. This was usually made with white bread, "wonderloaf" type, buttered. The banana would be sliced thickly onto the bottom slice and sprinkled with ordinary white sugar then the second slice squashed on top. During the school holidays she would make the same for me.
I now prefer banana on toast, especially for breakfast, but think of my mum every time I take the first delicious bite! The ultimate comfort snack!
Instructions
Take a slice of your favourite bread, for me wholemeal or granary.
Toast it lightly and spread it thinly with your favourite spread, for me salted butter, but could be peanut butter, Nutella or even pineapple jam.
Take a banana of your preferred ripeness, for me ripe but not too soft.
Peel the banana and lay it on the toast in two halves.
Squash it onto the toast with the back of a fork and dust it lightly with ground cinnamon.
Eat and enjoy while the toast is still just warm.
A SLIGHTLY BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
I love squished bananas on toast or in a sandwich. I like you suggestion of a sprinkling of cinnamon 👍
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