365 days

...

menu
m ?
t Black bean tostadas
w Asian shrimp noodles
t breakfast
f ?
s Mexican chicken pizza

Nichole's WW journal

...

reading

...

the books of 2007
  • "The Children of Men"
  • "A Spot of Bother"
  • "At First Sight"
  • "The Night Gardener"
    the books of 2006
    books to read

    ...

    The Best Ribs
    Dad's Ever Had
  • Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
  • The Alton Brown recipe Nichole made
  • The ribs at that place in Branson
  • Carolina Barbecue
  • FireBonz
  • ...

    Friday, February 03, 2006

    Banana bread

    It seems like I've been trying to make this banana bread recipe for years. Everytime the bananas were just a day away from being perfect, Alex would through them away. Maybe he'll think twice about that now that he's tried the bread.
    The recipe is modified from Cook's Illustrated (because I didn't have any walnuts). I used a mini-loaf pan and reduced the bake time to 30 minutes. Next time I'm trying the chocolate version, and I might even use walnuts, too.

    Banana bread
    2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting pan
    3/4 cup sugar
    3/4 tsp baking soda
    1/2 tsp salt
    3 very ripe, darkly speckled large bananas, mashed well
    1/4 cup plain yogurt
    2 large eggs, beaten lightly
    6 tbl (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
    1 tsp vanilla

    Adjust an oven rack to the lower-middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan; dust with flour, tapping out excess.
    Combine the flour, sugar, salt baking soda in a large bowl with a whisk.
    Mix the mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, butter and vanilla with a wooden spoon in a medium bowl. Lighly fold the banana mixture into the dry ingredients with a rubber spatula until just combined and the batter looks thick and chunky. Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
    Bake until the loaf is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

    posted by Nichole @ 10:00 AM  

    . . . . . comments . . . . .

    post a comment

    www.flickr.com

    ...

    wishlist

    ...

    previous posts
    ...the bear
    ...Denzel!
    ...Lounge act
    ...Salmon Croquettes with Remoulade
    ...Tasty cakes
    ..."Gilead"
    ...One-week retrospective
    ...Now with 50% more Redford
    ...Petty grievances
    ...Almost more than I could take

    ...

    ...

    Creative Commons License
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

    ...

    The girl at portfelia.com makes super-duper patterns. She made this one. Cool, eh?

    ...

    Hey Alex! Click here!
    Get awesome blog templates like this one from BlogSkins.com