Banana Bread

This week on pandagrub we are going to be making banana bread.

 The panda in the picture above is named Mini Stubby. Mini Stubby is sitting with the ingredients for the banana bread. The ingredients are four overly ripe bananas,flour,sugar,vanilla,and butter,baking soda, and one egg.

 Make sure your bananas are over ripe.

 Now it's time to start making the banana bread. First peel all of the bananas and put them in a large bowl and mash them.

 This is what the bananas should look like after you finish mashing them.

 Then add the sugar,egg, vanilla, baking soda,flour and salt. Then use the melted butter to grease the loaf pan. Now you are ready to put in the banana bread batter into the oven.

 Mini Stubby is very excited to eat the banana bread! The banana is finally ready to eat after being baked at 350 degrees for one hour.

 Mini Stubby is eating the banana bread with the apricot jam that we used in the Three Crostinis.

Mini Stubby thought that the banana bread was delicious because it was very moist and had a very tasty banana flavor. For the full recipe click here.

Happy 4th of July!

This week on pandagrub, we celebrated the 4th of July with a Flag Cake!  

 Kettlecorn loves the 4th of July.  We try to make this cake every year.  The cake is a white cake with buttercream frosting and garnished with raspberries and blueberries!  Hope you had a great 4th!

Three Crostinis

This week on pandagrub, we are going to be making three types of crostinis. We are going to be making a goat cheese and apricot jam crostini, a guacamole and tomato crostini, and a ricotta,tomato,and basil crostini. 

The panda in the picture above is named Stuboom. Stuboom is sitting with the ingredients for the crosinis. The ingredients are goat cheese, apricots, tomatoes, ricotta, the juice of one lemon, avocado, one fresh baguette, and some fresh basil.

Now Stuboom is sniffing the wonderful apricots that were given to us by our neighbors. Stuboom is going to make jam out of the apricots. 

 For Stuboom's delicious jam recipe, click here.

Now it is time to make our first crostini. First take out your baguette that has been baking for eight minutes at 385 degrees. Then cut your baguette into inch thick slices. Now we can start assembling the crostini. First spread your goat cheese on the baguette and then add your apricot jam on top.

Stuboom and I enjoyed this crostini. We thought that it had wonderful flavor and texture.  We liked combination of the rich goat cheese and the sweet and slightly tart apricot jam.

Its time to move onto our second crostini. Stuboom has mashed up an avocado with lemon juice and some salt.

Now Stuboom has spread the avocado mixture onto the baguette and added a tomato slice as a garnish.

This crostini was my favorite because the creamy avocado mixture and the juicy tomato went perfectly together.

Now Stuboom is eating the third and final crostini. Stuboom has assembled some ricotta cheese, tomato slices, and fresh basil leaves which were used as a garnish. This crostini was basically a mini-pizza!

For a quick and easy dinner party idea, try making these delicious and fun crostinis as an appetizer for your guests.  Be sure to make enough for all of your pandas!