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Dave's Online Cooking Show - The Banana Bread Incident

So you have some old bananas sitting around because you kept forgetting to eat them for breakfast this week.

What do you do?

Make banana bread, of course. It's easy, and soooo yummy.

But what if you are too lazy to go to the grocery store to buy those couple of missing ingredients?

Go online and look for recipes that do not include those ingredients, and bake a mutant combination of those recipes. Guaranteed to be tasty, right?

Like all tasty baked goods, the basis for this is sugar and butter. So mix those together first. And preheat that oven to 350F or thereabouts.

Then mix in your more liquid ingredients, like eggs and vanilla.

Then mush up those bananas (it is extra fun if you squoosh them with your hands, but don't tell anyone if you do that) and mix them in. After that, mix in your drier ingredients, like flour and baking soda.

That's it! Pour into loaf-shaped container and bake it.

It needs to bake for a while, maybe about 40-50 minutes. Do the toothpick test to see if it is done.

Really, it looked better in person. And it smells so good! They say you need to let it cool first, but who is really going to stop you when it smells that good?

My favorite way to eat banana bread is to make some real whipped cream and cut two thinner pieces, put whipped cream between them, and eat it like a sandwich. Mmmmmm, excessive!

Ingredients:

So here's the part I messed up. In combining the different recipes, I didn't quite get the right proportions. While it tastes fine (lots of margin of error on this recipe, thank goodness) I got too much for one loaf and not enough for two. So I got one funny looking short loaf and one regular one. Here's a guess at some proportions, but really, put a little more of what you like and add some more of things if it turns out to be not enough. No one wants to eat a funny looking loaf of banana bread.

• 1/2 cup butter

• 1 1/4 cup sugar

• at least 4 squishy bananas

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon salt

• at least 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 2 cups flour

• 2 eggs

Lots of recipes also have things like nuts, orange rinds, buttermilk, lemon juice - so you can go crazy if you want. But don't blame me for what happens.

Posted by babar at March 12, 2002 11:25 PM