Banana Jam and Cold Noodles

Instagram makes me lazy. It's been way too long since I've written a post and way too much delicious food has gone unexplained! Instead of trying to backtrack and post everything I've missed... I'm just going to post what I did today.

Today I made Banana Jam!! Its so good! Basically it's bananas cooked up with some sugar and an acid (to keep them from getting brown). Simple. I roast my bananas, just as I like to do for banana bread. Brings out that flavor. You dont have to... but its tastier.

With two bananas I made enough for one person for a week, considering you eat toast every morning. Double, triple, etc this recipe to make enough for you. Totally not actually measuring anything but what I made is probably about 4 oz by volume, if that helps.

2 large bananas, roasted

1 Tablespoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon citric acid (or lemon/lime juice)

pinch of salt

Smash up roasted bananas in a small pot over med-high heat. Add in remaning ingredients and, stirring constantly, cook down until its thick, about 15-20m. 

Place into an airtight container to keep for up to a week.

You can also can this  stuff if you know how to do all that, and it lasts quite alot longer.

Here is a picture of my banana jam spread onto german dark wheat wholegrain toast with coconut-peanut butter spread.

Cheers

Oh yeah and my Cold Buckwheat noodles with Fresh and Pickled Cucumbers:

There's not a recipe to this, really, I found this Instant Noodle mix at my local Korean grocery in the refrigerated section... neat new stuff. So I had to try it! I added in the cucumbers and the egg.

This instant noodle has a mustardy-vinegary-sweet-salty kind of thing going on that is super refreshing in the hot summer. The actual serving suggestion on the package mentions not only cucumber but also thinly sliced cold cooked beef and thinly sliced pear. 

The proper name for these is Mul-naengmyeon <-- click for a recipe