Banana bread

It's freezer clean-out time.  Mum taught me that over-ripe bananas could be stuck in the freezer as-is, and used later in banana cake.

A while ago my home-chef buddy P gave me a great recipe for Banana Bread.  It's very buttery, but feels just a tiny bit healthy because it has almond meal in it.
1.5 cups plain flour
0.5 cup of almond meal
2 teaspoons of baking powder
0.5 teaspoon of bicarb soda
2/3 cup of caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
125 g butter, melted and cooled.
3 mashed bananas.

Sift flour, almond meal, baking powder, bicarb together.  Add sugar, eggs, butter and beat for 3 minutes.  Fold in bananas.  Put into a lined / greased loaf tin.  Bake for 1 hour at 150C.  (This was a hand-scribbled recipe so I hope I didn't miss anything in the method.)

Anywho, the dishes are the usual array of awfulness, but, the keen-eyed follower may recognise something which The Machine would never allow.

Lick-able beaters.

Yes, I caved and bought a small electric beater for use in my "Can I live without The Machine" experiments.  I now have whipped cream in my fridge, and shall soon have well-mixed banana bread, and home made bread rolls (yes it has a dough hook attachment) and probably pancakes and sponge cake and pavlova.... any suggestions for savoury and healthy food to be made using this new implement would be most welcomed!

After my first few plays though, I have sighed as I've had to wipe down the stove-back, and pick up little bits of cake mix off the surrounding benchtops.  The Machine would never allow beater-spatter.