A exceptional e-mail the significance of one June together with Cocoa Banana Muffins

I dear getting feedback from you lot guys. I read everything that you lot transportation me together with exercise my best to respond to every communication. Last calendar week , non long subsequently I posted the slice near I'iga Pisa , I received this wonderful e-mail from SwissHamo:

Dear Ms Panipopo ,
Malo le soifua! My mention is _____ together with I'm an avid follower of your site. I simply read your latest weblog together with it touched me really deeply together with personally. ... Are you lot past times whatever gamble related to him [I'iga Pisa]? If therefore , therefore nosotros are most probable related also - he is my great-grandfather together with his final living fry is my grandmother who volition plough 92 side past times side month. When I read your weblog , I was inward daze really. His storey is known inside my identify unit of measurement , but it's non i that many people (at to the lowest degree I don't think) know roughly Samoa. I don't know why that is , but it is what it is. So to come across it on your weblog was just... heartwarming.
Faafetai tele lava ma ia faamanuia le Atua i au galuega ma feau.
Ma le faaaloalo lava ,
SwissHamo

For those of you lot wondering , I am not , every bit far every bit I know , related to anyone who changed the course of educational activity of Samoan history. Not similar SwissHamo , who tin displace draw her roots dorsum to 2 of leaders of Samoan Independence (Lauaki together with I'iga were relatives) , together with fifty-fifty farther dorsum , is direct related to the Tongan Royal Family. Thanks for writing to me , SH. It brought the past times to the introduce , breathing life into the history that I honor therefore rich together with inspiring.

History tidbit for today: The outset Samoan Independence Day was non celebrated inward June but on 1 Jan , 1962. The argue its celebrated straightaway on 1 June is because that was the master copy Samoan Flag Day dorsum inward 1948 , a hateful solar daytime which marked Samoa's official transition to independence from colonisation/trusteeship together with the same hateful solar daytime that Samoa's national anthem was revealed.

If you lot e'er wondered what it was similar , that outset Independence Day , banking concern lucifer out this video from 4:48 onwards.

Also banking concern lucifer out the residue of the Samoan videos from archivesnz Youtube channel. It's awesome to come across dark together with white footage from Samoa together with the means life was 50 together with to a greater extent than years ago. I also actually relish listening to the background songs together with chants. So nostalgic! The alone other matter I noticed , that I already knew somewhere inward the dorsum of my hear , is that Samoans are a pretty damned fine-looking race.

The next recipe has naught to exercise amongst anything , eg. non a Samoan recipe , but I brand these therefore oft I simply had to share. The recipe comes from a fabulous collection of muffin recipes past times Camilla Saulsbury called 750 Best Muffin Recipes. Once the bananas are mashed , these are super-quick to throw together. Whether you lot brand them amongst or without the chocolate chips , the muffins remain moist together with flavourful for upwards to 3 days subsequently you've baked them.

Cocoa Banana Muffins
(makes 12)

1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 loving cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 loving cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/3 cups mashed ripe banana
1/3 loving cup vegetable oil
1 loving cup semisweet chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) together with business a 12 loving cup muffin pan amongst newspaper liners.

Whisk together the flour , cocoa pulverisation , baking soda , common salt together with baking powder. In a dissever bowl , combine the carbohydrate , egg , bananas together with oil. Add the egg mixture to the dry out ingredients together with stir until simply blended. Gently crimp inward chocolate chips if you lot are using them.

Fill the newspaper liners evenly amongst the batter (should endure 3/4 full). Bake for xx to 24 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool inward pan for 3 minutes therefore take to a wire rack to cool.