Banana Bread

Mr. Man has been a big fan of bananas for the past few weeks "yellow with a little green thanks... Not a touch of brown!"  He has been eating a couple of bananas a day for the past couple of weeks then, being a three year old, he stopped... "Banana!?! what's that?"  So there they sat...  How long? I am not sure, but these guys were green when I brought them home.

To make this recipe inevitable; this weekend  we all went to a church rummage sale and I found a silicone baking set that includes a muffin pan, a loaf pan a 9x9 casserole and a baking sheet.  I have been looking for the silicone set for a while and for $5.00 how could I go wrong?  Maybe I will talk about this personality idiosyncrasy of mine some time... I am a classic cheapskate.  So I was almost high from the purchase of a $5.00 set like this.

Well with a mess of rotting bananas and a brand new baking set what do you think I did?  Ok, not much a a stretch is it?  Banana Bread was on the menu for breakfast on Sunday... The ingredients:

5 Really Ripe Bananas

1/4 cup melted Butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 cups Flour

2 tsp baking powder

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 cup almonds (toasted)

3/4 cups chocolate chips

I put the bananas in a large mixing bowl and beat them with a wooden spoon then added the butter, sugar and egg and mixed them together pretty well. I put the flour and baking powder into a sifter and sifted that into the mixture then added the chocolate chips.  My children believe that all nuts are the work of the devil so I took a couple of scoops out now and put them in muffin cups then added the almonds and walnuts mixed. I pored this into a lightly sprayed silicone baking pan and popped that into an oven that I had heated to 350. It took a little more than an hour until until it was done. I know there are more subtle ways to tell but I still poke it with a knife and when it comes out clean I know it is done.

 Here it is pretty and blue... Looking all Star Trekie 

Maybe I will start a "Cooking with the Horta" series.