Recipes from Bob Dylan-And his mom!

BOB’S MOM’S BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP LOAF BREAD

The cook is: Beatty Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan’s mom)
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons sour cream
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 (6-ounce) package chocolate chips (or up to 12 ounces, if desired)
• 2 medium disposable foil loaf pans (about 8-by-3-by-2 inches)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together the sugar and butter. Add the eggs and beat well. Add the sour cream and ripe bananas; mix well. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add the dry mixture to the sour cream mixture, then fold in the chocolate chips. Divide the batter between two greased loaf pans. Bake for about 50 minutes. Turn the loaves out on to cooling rack or aluminum foil as soon as they're done.
 

RECIPES FROM BOB DYLAN’S RADIO SHOW: Theme Time Radio Hour

(http://www.xmradio.com/bobdylan)

Theme Time Radio Hour (TTRH) was a weekly, one-hour satellite radio show hosted by Bob Dylan which originally aired from May 2006 to April 2009. Each episode was an eclectic, freeform mix of blues, folk, rockabilly, R&B, soul, bebop, rock-and-roll, country and pop music, centered around a theme such as "Weather," "Money," and "Flowers" with songs from artists as diverse as Patti Page and LL Cool J.

Here are some of the recipes Dylan shared with his radio audience, including commentary.

BOB'S FIGGY PUDDING

The cook is: Bob Dylan

"Earlier in the show, I told you to go get a pencil. Well, you’re all going to use it now. I got a lot of letters about this. Here's my recipe for Figgy Pudding. I like it served with heated golden syrup topping, and a generous pour of custard – makes me hungry just talking about it. My engineer Tex Carbone likes vanilla ice cream on it; I don't understand that at all.”

• 4 oz. of plain flour
• Pinch of salt – just a pinch!
• 4 oz. bread crumbs
• 4 oz. shredded suet
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 oz. dark soft brown sugar
• 8 oz. chopped dried figs
• Finely grated rind & the juice of 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 beaten eggs

Sift salt and flour together, then mix with the remaining dry ingredients. Add the figs, lemon rind and juice, milk, and beaten eggs. Beat well. Mixture should have a soft dropping consistency. Put into a greased 2 pint pudding basin, cover securely and steam for 3 hours.
 

BOB'S MINT JULEP

The bartender is: Bob Dylan

• 4 mint sprigs
• 2 ½ ounces of bourbon (“I prefer 3”)
• 1 Tablespoon powdered sugar
• 1 Tablespoon water

Put the mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a Collins glass. Fill with shaved or crushed ice. Top with bourbon and more ice. Garnish with a mint sprig.
 

BOB'S RUM AND COKE

The bartender is: Bob Dylan

“Shake it up well and go drink it in the sunshine!”

• 1 tall glass, filled with ice
• 2 fingers of "Bombay" rum
• 1 bottle of Coca-Cola
 

BOB’S BARBEQUE SAUCE

The cook is: Bob Dylan

"There's a lot of good barbecue in Memphis. Here's a recipe I gave the guys over at the Rendezvous. You can also figure out your own secret ingredients and dump it into the mix. I like about three fingers of Tennessee sippin' whiskey.”

• 1 cup tomato sauce
• 1 cup vinegar
• 5 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 tablespoon butter
• ½ small onion
• Dash of black pepper
• Some cayenne pepper
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• ½ cup water

Mix it all together in large pan, bring to a quick boil, reduce the heat and let simmer 10 minutes.

Note to Dylan fans: According to the Sirius and XM Radio sites, "encore" presentations of TTRH currently air on Mondays 8 p.m. ET, Thursdays 12 a.m. ET, and Sundays 8 a.m. ET on Deep Tracks Channel 16 of Sirius and Channel 40 of XM Radio. Additional weekly encore shows air Wednesdays at 12 noon ET and Mondays at 12 midnight on XM Channel 15, The Village. The Spectrum (Sirius Channel 18 and XM Channel 45) currently airs repeats of the program in a four-hour block each Sunday from 4-8 p.m. ET. Each block begins and ends with an encore of the most recent TTRH episode from the previous Wednesday, with two older episodes aired in between.

The program currently airs in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, and in Ireland on Dublin-based alternative rock station Phantom FM.