you used to be alright

banana bread time

i’m not much of baker. i mean, i don’t do a lot of cakes or cookies or muffins or cupcakes or breads.

but i do like a banana bread – in fact there was a while where i was making banana bread every week. and not just as a way to get rid of old bananas – mainly because i like eating banana bread.

my recipe is a modified recipe i found on the internets. it’s mainly modified by what i have on hand – but the basics are the following:

2 cups white flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter
lots of really ripe bananas. overripe. i mean flies are circling around and you have to hide them from your ayi to keep her from throwing them away.
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
handful of something else – in the past i’ve used semi-sweet chocolate chips, crushed walnuts, cinnamon – this particular loaf i have a bag of dried cranberries – never tried this before

instructions:

1. pre-heat the oven to 170 C (I dunno – what is that 325 F? – convert it yourselves!)
2. grease up a loaf pan.
3. cream together the eggs, bananas (i like to mash them with a fork), brown sugar in one bowl. in the other bowl mix the flour, salt and baking powder.
4. once the wet ingredients are nice and mixed, pour them in with the dry ingredients. mix until well incorporated and there’s no more dry flour.
5. pour dough into greased loaf pan.
6. bake for like an hour or a little bit over and hour, or until you get a clean toothpick after sticking it in.
7. let cool before slicing.

i didn’t take photos of the dough mixing because – well because my hands were covered in flour and egg and other things.

about 20 minutes in, the dough starts to rise

about 45 minutes in, the top is starting to take on some nice coloring

ta da! here’s the bread!

now . . .to try a piece

it’s pretty dang good.