Chris's Chocolate Chip and Walnut Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 stick (½ cup) butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 medium overripe bananas
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ cup of chocolate chips
• ½ cup walnuts, roughly chopped

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350oF. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in the eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts. Mix well. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture, stir just to moisten. Pour the batter into meatloaf pan. Bake in preheated oven to 55-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into centre of the loaf comes out clean. Let the bread cool in the pan for 20 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack

A Gathering of Links and recipes #3

• Chris Cosentino gives a guide to his favourite spots in San Francisco
• Peach and Strawberry Crumble from Giada De Laurentiis
• Capellini Arrabiata, Orrechiette with asparagus,lemon, shrimp and cream, Cream of sweetcorn and Italian Panzanella salad from Gordon Ramsay
• Southern Baked Beans and Peach Cobbler from Paula Deen
• Bacon-Wrapped Splitters from the Food Network Website
• 9 Pickling Recipes for the Amateur Pickler from the Food 2 Website
• Alton Brown shows you how to brew the perfect cup of coffee
• World's 50 Most Delicious Foods according to CNN
• Bobby Flays Spice-Rubbed Chicken Breast Tacos
• Beer Can Grilled Chicken from Pat Neely

Fiasco Gelato Truck

The Calgary Food Truck revolution has hit the streets! There are currently 8 trucks on the streets and the first one that was on my list was Fiasco Gelato. The best way to find out where they are going to be serving their delicious gelato is to follow them on twitter @fiascogelato To see a list of all the food trucks visit the YYC Food Truck website. The first thing that I noticed was how friendly the staff was. We were the only customer at the time, but I got the feeling that these guys loved their job and their enthusiasm was nice. I had the bourbon french vanilla and mambi mango flavours. The mango was very good but it was also average. The french vanilla however was very good. I could tell by tasting as well as by looking at the gelato that they used fresh vanilla beans. The flavour was really good. The prices are a little bit expensive. I got a small for $4.50 which is pictured above. They also have a large for $6. You can get as many as three different flavours in one bowl which I appreciate because I usually have a hard time picking flavours.

My wife and I both think Amato gelato is better in quality but the service at Fiasco is WAY better. I would prefer Fiasco overall is the gelato is still very good.

Hello Stranger

Hey guys sorry for the lack of post this last month. It has been a busy summer and sadly I have not been cooking anything new lately. Nor have a been to many restaurants. I have been saving a whole bunch of twitter links which will be making an appearance in a blog later on tonight. I am on call this weekend which should give me a chance to do some cooking. I need to start cooking my way through James Beard's book.

In other exciting news I get to go to New York city on a business trip. I am not sure how much free time I will have but I hope to eat at at least one really famous high end restaurant. Right now the front runner is Le Bernardin. There tasting menu is only 140$. Check it out http://www.le-bernardin.com/tasting_menu.php

Hopefully you will see some more activity over on this site the next couple of weeks!