Day 191

Tonight I made chocolate chip banana nut bread from a randomly picked recipe on my phone. I decided I didn't like the order of steps it wanted things done in (maybe doing things a certain way makes them taste better but mostly I think it just wastes dishes if I mix wet and dry separately. I've never had muffins not work out because I added dry to wet instead of vice versa) so I was making up a new order as I went and substituting things because I feel like it's a waste of butter when oil will work just fine (apple sauce would've been even better but I thought of it too late). Since I didn't use better I knew I better add some salt. Many a breadmaker bread has been "ruined" (it'll get eaten anyway) by me not adding enough salt.

In the end I neglected to add a 1/2 cup of sugar to the batter. I didn't realize it until ten minutes into baking which was too late to try adding things. I sprinkled some sugar on the already firming top (and that recipe tried to tell me I needed 65 minutes?! At 30 it was done and maybe even drying out) and hoped for the best.

I think it turned out fine, perfectly edible at least. If I'd used apple sauce it probably would've been too sweet with sugar. I mean it's supposed to be a bread, not a cake, right? Really chocolate chips and walnuts in every bite don't leave much space for tasting the dough not being sweet enough.

PS Sometimes I think the Camera+ app just makes my pictures blurrier rather than improving them. Maybe I should go with instagram or something. Really I should take pics with a real camera, my phone camera just isn't that powerful.