Estratto ORIGINALE dalla novella : Tatiana's Table by Paullina Simons

Tatiana’s Banana Bread for ‪#‎NationalDessertDay‬ ‪#‎TheBronzeHorseman‬ from ‪#‎TatianasTable‬ by Paullina Simons

Tatiana didn’t know how to cook and had no interest in it until she met and fell in love with Alexander in The Bronze Horseman. She learned how to cook for him because he loved to eat and he received her cooking as a labor of love, which it was. So when the world was stacked against them, and she couldn’t tell him the deepest contents of her heart, she would make him potato pancakes, hoping he would know.
And he did.She made him chicken soup, and fried potatoes with mushrooms. Then they ran out of food in blockaded Leningrad during war and had to find other ways to communicate.The fictionalized cookbook, called Tatiana’s Table, is the cookbook Tatiana would have written had she not been a figment of my imagination. It’s as if she had written the recipes passed down to her from generations of her family and his family, bringing culinary joy from Russia in the form of blinchiki and from Italy in the form of meatballs. Alexander loved all food, but he particularly liked all food sweet. So Tatiana made him preacher cookies and blueberry pie, and fudge brownies, and banana bread, perfecting the last for months and months until it was fall-away moist in the middle and slightly caramelly-crunchy on top. She always doubled the recipe because the first banana bread did not get a chance to cool down before her family made it all gone.This is Tatiana’s recipe for banana bread in honor of #NationalDessertDay. Enjoy. And pick up a copy of The Bronze Horseman, and read what it’s like to be consumed by impossible love and crème brulee ice cream during war. And then after The Bronze Horseman, maybe you can discover, among other discoverable things, what Tania and Alexander got up to when she made them beergaritas. Oh boy.