Banana Bread & Foccacia

With my long Christmas break, I have been having some fun in the kitchen. Some of the baking came out good and some were a little disappointing. 


Banana bread, I made this before but it was a little dense according to my dessert critic. So this time, I am trying Peter Reinhart's recipe, except I can't help but reduce the sugar. 

I think it tasted much better than the earlier one that I did. The recipe says to let it rest for an hour before cutting it but there was someone who couldn't wait and had to have a piece. So the first piece looked a little dense. 

The banana bread was nice for a few days. It didn't dry up and it was nice when lightly toasted in the oven and enjoyed with a cup of coffee for breakfast. 

Then one evening I also made garlic and herbs foccacia and we had it hot from the oven with minestrone soup. A nice hot bowl of soup with homemade foccacia.