Food: Bananabread with Chocolate & Walnuts

This cold weather really makes me want to cook and bake stuff! This time I went for a bananabread and I decided to spice it up a bit by putting in some chocolate and walnuts. Here is the recipe for you!

What do you need

• 500 grams of bananas (about 4 bananas)
• 250 grams of plain flour
• baking powder 
• 115 grams of butter
• 115 grams of (brown) sugar
• 2 beaten eggs
• a pinch of salt
• pieces of chocolate
• walnuts

Time to start!

First preheat your oven on 180°C. 
Put the flour, backing powder and salt together in a bowl. Get another bowl to mix the butter with the sugar. Mix the bananas and eggs together. You can use a blender but I like it more when there are still some pieces of banana in it, so I just used a fork. Put the banana-egg mixture together with the butter-sugar mixture and mix it all together. Than put the flour, backing powder and salt in there and mix it again. Now you can put in anything you want. I choose chocolate and walnuts. Carefully mix it in with a spoon. Now pour the mixture in a buttered cake pan and put it in the oven for about an hour. Check with a toothpick if it's ready. If the toothpick comes out clean, it's done! 

Bon appetit!

Food: M'semen (Moroccan Breakfast Pancakes)

While I was in Marrakech we stayed in the Dellarosa Hotel. Every morning they provided a breakfast buffet with all kinds of bread and western food but also a lot of Moroccan  types of breakfast. I really loved these small pancakes. I was not the only one because as soon as they brought them from the kitchen, within a couple of minutes everything was gone again! I found out they were called m'semen and as soon as I was home, I looked it up and tried to make them myself. They turned out pretty good, so here is the recipe for you!

M'semen

(4 servings)

What do you need

• 200 grams of flour
• 125 grams of wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dry yeast
• 3-5 dl lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil
• 1 sheet of baking paper
• some extra oil 

Time to start!

Put al the flour, salt, yeast and water in a bowl and knead it for about 15-20 minutes, till there are no more clumps and the dough is completely smooth. Make small flat balls (about 5cm) lay them down on baking paper and let them rest for 10 minutes. Put some sunflower oil on your worksurface. Spread each ball of dough as thin as possible. Cover it in oil and sprinkle a little bit of flour on it. Fold the sides in at both sides like an envelop. Heat some sunflower oil in a bakingpan and bake the pancakes on both sides till they are goldenbrown. Put them on some kitchenpaper to get rid of the access oil.

That's all! It's best to eat them while they are still a warm.
Besseha!

Hope you liked this recipe and let me know if you tried to make it!