The world has gone bananas!

As if nudging me to embark on another culinary adventure, the Metro featured a banana pancake recipe on its front page about a fortnight ago. So I thought I'd try and follow the path that destiny was clearly trying to steer me towards. What was meant to be a special surprise breakfast in bed for Fuzz ended up turning into yet another "Fuzz saves the day" type scenario. :o(

Pinny on, sleeves rolled up and with all the ingredients and equipment before me, I set about preparing both my wet pancake mix and dry pancake mix. For once, I even found myself ingeniously improvising: made up for the lack of a sieve by using an oil splatter screen instead to sieve the flour and baking powder, and used a potato masher to mash the bananas. Having combined both the wet and dry mix, I was now ready to spoon out the mixture on to the hot pan and skillfully toss my pancakes with flair, Ainsley Harriot style. Alas, as luck would have it, the pancakes came out shaped like...erm...the various countries of the world map (which to be fair, could be construed as quite a skill in itself. I mean how many people can make pancakes shaped like Australia? I'd say that I must be one of the rare few that can.) Moving on though, the shape of the pancakes wasn't the only challenge that I faced here. Not only did I get a little stuck with the cooking at this point, to my dismay, my first pancake got stuck to the pan (quite literally)and stubbornly refused to free itself from it, despite me frantically scraping away at its edges (and I hasten to add that our kitchen was lacking a non-stick pan so I'm not entirely at fault here). As the burning smells got stronger and stronger, so did my calls to Fuzz to come to my aid. He was of course better than me at getting the cooker to behave and as a result of some clever control of temperature with it, we were able to make some almost edible pancakes - I say almost edible as they weren't really that nice to eat, for which I blame the recipe. I followed it down to the last full stop. Period.