After nearly a month of waiting on my Sur la Table cassis french oven to arrive (what a nightmare!) it finally landed in the Financial District around the 12th of February. Our dear friend had entered into a Valentines Day Chili cook-off, and wouldn’t you know… he put out an email alert that he was in need of a large Dutch oven. Mr. D offered up our Le Creuset, and I have not seen it again since! Boo!
I thought I’d share my favorite recipe for banana bread this week, perhaps one of you will try the recipe and I can live vicariously through you? {winkwink} Without further ado, here is the ‘My-oh-my I am dying to blow off some steam and bake a Banana Bread’ recipe:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (then lower to 250 for second half hour)
Bake time: 60 minutes 30 minutes at 350, 30 minutes at 250
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 super ripe bananas (the browner, the better!)
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped walnuts – totally optional
pinch of salt
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar. Mix in eggs. Add in bananas. Continue to cream together ingredients until everything is incorporated. Slowly add flour, soda, powder, salt. Add optional walnuts last.
Bake in a greased and lightly floured loaf pan.
Enjoy warm with a hot cup of coffee and a smear of butter ~ delish!
Stealing ABCD’s brand spankin’ new cassis dutch oven? NOT COOL, chili cookers! Not cool at all.
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I’ll make it for you. Husband requested banana bread the other day and came home with about 20 bananas. He didn’t realize there are two frozen loaves in the freezer. If I eat another banana with chocolate chips, banana with peanut butter, banana with banana I’m just going to explode.
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Mmm. I’ve started making banana bread every two weeks, it is so good for a fast breakfast. The recipe I use is really similar to yours. One of the main things I do differently is replace half the butter with non-fat greek yogurt, and 1/3 cup of the flour w/ whole wheat flour. It still tastes wonderful, but is slightly healthier (or at least it feels healthier).
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Oh Genavee! That sounds like a wonderful alternative. I absolutely will try that once I have the opportunity to bake again.
Felicity ~ Sounds like with 20 bananas you need to open a smoothie pop-up shop! Gotta love the husbands and their mad grocery skillz (with a “z”)
Maggie, I know, can you believe it? I helped to make the chili at a friends house, but can’t believe I am still waiting on the return of the pan. You’d think they’d understand the power and love felt for a brand new French oven!
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I made it for you. Except I had to make it a little healthier – used 1/2 the butter and apple sauce for the other 1/2, used 1 c. whole wheat flour and 1/3 c. ap flour. And just because it makes them taste deeeelicious, I toasted the walnuts first. I didn’t today, but I usually add 1/3 c. coconut flakes, which so tasty and usually used crushed pineapple for all of the butter, but didn’t have any around the house. Thanks for the distraction on an otherwise hectic day!
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Oh ~ love the “healthy” version Felicity. It would fit nicely into my new “flexitarian” diet… more on that to come, but so far, so good.
Thanks for chiming in to say you did it!
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Banana bread is one of my favorite things to eat! I will have to try this recipe.
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