dan lives over in the gulf islands off the coast of vancouver (a very, very beautiful part of the world). we met when we both living in vanuatu, in the south pacific, and i’ve spent some time with him and cam on the island.

dan has a food blog too, and he’s currently doing a weekly ‘wednesday’ series in tribute to his grandmother, jessie. he found a stash of her recipes in his mother’s old joy of cooking, and is working through each recipe.

this week it was banana muffins. as i was reading it, my housemate kyra said to her son “hmm, we need to make some banana bread, these bananas are looking ripe”. and so, that being a sign and all, i made dan’s grandma jessie’s banana muffins this afternoon.

this recipe made a cute six muffins, and they are pretty tasty indeed. an interesting interpretation of jessie’s ingredient list and temperature (i’d be creaming the butter and sugar, adding the bananas and soda/salt/powder, then folding in the flour.). but it’s all in the interpretation, as is so much of what we find in these traces of the past.