Cosmo Cooking

It’s the same old story… one day, you bought a bunch of bananas, but then you fail to eat them in time, and they slowly turn brown. So, time to shed some tears and through them away? No, our American readers will already have guessed what we are going to do, we are going to bake a banana bread instead. This one is a little special though, since it hides a whole banana in its core. Yummy!

Ingredients

• 250 gr self-raising flour
• 1/4 of a nutmeg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 125 gr butter
• 125 gr caster sugar
• lemon zest
• 2 eggs
• 3 bananas, mashed with a fork
• handful of sultanas
• 3 tbsp

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Ingredients

• 200 gr flour
• 6 pears ‘Conférence’
• 1 roll puff pastry
• 4 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 200 gr goat cheese
• 50 gr pistachios

Preheat oven to 180 °C. Peel the pears and remove the heart and seeds and cut into small cubes of about 1 cm. Cut the goat cheese into rounds regular approximately ½cm thick. Crush the pistachios with the flat side a fairly large knife.

In a skillet, warm oil and honey on a low heat. Add pears and pepper, stirring constantly, and let them color the preparation over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes.

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