sweet fry bread

The story:
This recipe is actually just an adaptation of my basic pizza dough recipe. The original intention was a Naan substitute which turned out pretty well, but this one is a little more versatile. This is very easy to make and extremely tasty, but its best to eat it when its still fresh and hot. Keep in mind that for this recipe I mostly eyeball measurements. You might just want to add things slowly till it reached the consistency of a good bread dough.

Recipe:

2.5-3 cups flour
1 TBS yeast
2-3 TBS olive oil
1 -2 TBS sugar
1/2 TSP salt
1/2 -2/3 cup water
1 stick of butter (you make not need all of it)

Add all the ingredients in a stand mixer, except the butter, and start it on low. Let the machine knead the dough for 2-3 minutes. This will let the dough be properly mixed and well worked. Grab a piece of dough about the size of two golf balls. Roll the dough out as thin as you can. Heat a frying pan to high and add a TBS of butter. When the butter is melted and starting to bubble, add the rolled out dough. Keep a close eye on it, and when it started to bubble and puff up you need to flip it. Just keep repeating this till all your dough is used up.

super simple banana nut bread

This one is a Sandra Lee-esque kind of recipe. This one was basically created out of necessitaty, that being we had a lot of bananas and they were going bad. There are tons of recipes for banana bread out there, so if you want to use one of those for a base go for it, but this is the quick and easy route for it. Also a little side note, this recipe is great for adapting into banana bread pudding with the leftovers.

Ingredients:
Bread:
1 package of betty crocker banana nut bread mix
1/2 cup of water
Topping:
5-6 bananas
3 TBS of butter
1/2 TSP of vanilla
1/4 cup of brown sugar
3 dashes of cinnamon

Instructions:
I'm not gonna bother with the bread part of this recipe, just follow the instructions on the back. For the topping, heat a pan to medieum heat. Place the butter in the pan, letting it brown up. Slice the bananas into small chunks and toss them in the butter. Simply add the rest of the ingredients and stir gently for 2 minutes. Lower the heat to a simmer and let it sit for 5 minutes. It should thicken up fairly quickly. When baking the bread, take it out when its 3/4th done and scoop all of the topping onto it. Let it then finish altogether in the oven. To turn the leftovers into bread pudding, simply add milk or cream to it, and then bake it at 350 for 10-15 minutes.

enjoy!