Lately I've been doing a lot of cooking, fine-tuning a handful of recipes:
Sicilian whole orange cake (with chocolate mousse)
Apple cobbler
Banana bread
Persimmon bread with whipped persimmon puree cream
Pasta e ceci with homemade roasted tomato sauce
French omelette
Dutch babies with bananas foster
Horchata
Yesterday I tried my most ambitious one, caramelized banana mousse pie, a variation on the traditional banana cream pie, but with banana mousse and caramelized banana coins as a topping. However, I ran out of butter at an inopportune moment, and I miscalculated the firmness of the mousse, and I slightly underbaked the puff pastry crust, resulting in a soupy yet nonetheless tasty dessert.
Tonight I made persimmon bread, using my usual banana bread recipe but just swapping our bananas for persimmons, and cinnamon powder for ground cloves. I also made fresh vanilla whipped cream, and folded in some persimmon puree. It turned out rather specacularly, and with a more subtle taste than I was anticipating.