HEALTHY BANANA CAKE

So Nugget turned two last Friday. When did this happen? (Last Friday, I know)

I'm old and I start being the kind of adult I hated when I was younger. Always talking about how fast something went by and the worst, I always hug and squeeze and try to get a kiss from him. Poor Nugget. I know how awful that is. Not trying to change anytime soon though. 

My darling sister then asked me to bake a cake with no sugar. She acutally said that. And then I panicked. What cake doesn't contain sugar? I mean, I can't just subsitute sugar for honey. And then I remembered that some people like to make banana bread instead of banana cake. And then smear a whole jug of Nutella right on top of it. Nice try. 

I used this recipe from BBC. Mainly because the site doesn't look hideous unlike other blogs. I doubled the recipe because I knew my fantastic cake needs six fantastic layers. 

And then I remembered that no banana cake tastes good without cream cheese frosting. Since cream cheese frosting consists mainly of .. ummm sugar, I knew that my sister and 12 other moms would try to kill me if I actually went for that. So I went for elana's pantry's cream cheese frosting. 

Needless to say, it was the most amazing shit I ever tasted. And there's no butter nor any sugar in it! Can you believe it? I couldn't.

TUNA TARTARE

Yeah, that's right - I cooked! 

And I invited family over. That was definitely a first. 

Before escaping for the holidays I was nice enough to spend all my hard-earned dough and let people into my apartment. 

For the first course I served tuna tartare. 

I hope you could tell from the picture. I still need some food photography lessons. 

I liked it, papa liked it and everyone was happy. (The others liked it too.)

Recipe for 6 servings:

* 300g fresh tuna sashimi

* a handful of pignolia 

* a handful of arugula

* a spoon of walnut oil

* pepper

* fleur de sel

* parmesan shavings

Use a sharp knife and cut the tuna filet into little cubes. Don't put it in the mixer! 

Roast the pignolia in a little pan and then mix with the arugula, oil, salt and pepper using a food processor. Combine everything with the tuna in a large bowl. Serve cold with a pinch of fleur de sel and parmesan shavings. Yumms.