Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Bananas and Bark

I made the Dark Chocolate and Pistachio Matzo Bark and the Roasted Bananas with Jamaican Allspice from the June issue of Vegetarian Times. I heavily modified the Matzo Bark recipe. I used roast peanuts instead of pistachios because I needed to use up the peanuts. Milk chocolate instead of dark because I don't like dark chocolate, and well, I had milk chocolate chips to use up. I also had to use crushed up Heath Bars instead of toffee chips since I couldn't find toffee chips. You wouldn't think it would be hard to find toffee chips, but after 3 stores I bought Heath Bars and put them in the food processor. I guess in the end they weren't anything like the recipe in Vegetarian Times. They were pretty good, I liked the combo of salty Matzos and sweet chocolate and toffee.




The bananas were really good. I served them with vanilla ice cream like the recipe suggested. They were very sweet, but the sugary allspice syrup it made was good on the ice cream. I'll definitely be making those again.