banana bread

it's fabulously easy, and fills the kitchen with that aromatic fug which is the natural atmospheric setting for the domestic goddess.

- nigella lawson

and that's pretty much enough said! nigella has given another wonderful recipe. you can find it here, and go try it too. the only problem i had was that the banana bread rose too much and cracked. if only that happened with the madeira cake. i think this time it's because my oven was just a bit too hot.
the sultanas boiled with bailey's and left to soak for one hour. as nigella says, you 'end up with stickily, aromatically swollen fruit'. nice!
a gathering of all the ingredients required in this simple recipe.
the completed batter. actually mashed bananas look quite sick to me.
these are the fifteen-minute interval shots of the bread as it baked in the oven. true enough, the kitchen/house was filled with the banana aroma! lovely lovely.