Gyllenhaals’ banana bread recipe
Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal published a banana bread recipe in the New York Times this week — a celebrity twist on a home classic that the NYT spotlighted on March 19. The piece joins a NYT slate of make‑ahead snacks and low‑sodium dinners aimed at home cooks this week. (nytimes.com) (cooking.nytimes.com)
The NYT Cooking studio video of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal has drawn roughly 324,000 views and is posted on the NYT Cooking YouTube channel (which lists about 1.25 million subscribers). (youtube.com) The siblings’ take shaves back on sugar, ups the chopped nuts and folds in sour cream for extra moisture and “roundness and tang,” a deliberate tweak from their childhood loaf. (nytimes.com) On camera they explicitly credit their mother, screenwriter Naomi Foner, as the origin of the recipe and describe baking the loaf after school in their Los Angeles childhood home. (youtube.com) The video segment also doubles as promotion: the siblings talk about collaborating on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film The Bride!, which features Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Jake Gyllenhaal. (youtube.com) NYT Cooking links a free, downloadable recipe card in the video description (via an nyti.ms short link) and placed the piece alongside this week’s Cooking features on make‑ahead snacks and low‑sodium dinners on the site. (youtube.com) (cooking.nytimes.com)
