Waste or Waist?

My husband has found a new love and he can do anything for it. He impatiently waits like a teenager for a tête-à-tête and then shamelessly keeps talking about it when he isn’t around it. Before our phone starts cranking with sympathetic calls from people who are secretly drooling over the idea of a scandal, let me disappoint you as its no other woman. Lets reveal the mystery, shall we? It’s Banana Bread. Yes, ladies and gentleman, this man who once was a banana lover is a convert and is now a banana bread enthusiast. Up until past week, banana was the first fruit to get finished in our house and almost every other day I could be heard saying “Could you please pick up bananas on your way back” but now people here intentionally avoid eating them and keep hinting at how over ripe bananas are getting wasted. Oh yeah, instead of wasting them lets mix them with sugar and flour and let them go to our waists!! Here follows the recipe that I found a long time back, if you are the source, please claim it:

Wet Ingredients:
1. 2 bananas, mashed
2. 1/2 cup oil (I use canola)
3. 1/4 cup buttermilk (or regular milk with 1 tsp. vinegar)
4. 1 tsp. vanilla
5. 2 eggs

Dry Ingredients:

1. 1 3/4 cup flour
2. 1 1/2 cup sugar
3. 1 tsp. baking soda
4. 1/2 tsp. salt
5. 1 cup chopped nuts and raisins





Preheat the oven to 350 F / 180 C.
Mix and stir wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl; keep aside.
Stir the dry ingredients separately in another bowl and gently fold into the wet mixture.
Generously grease a loaf pan. Pour mixture into pan and bake at 350*F for around 1 hr. Let it cool down for about 30 minutes before taking out from the pan. Cut up a slice and serve warm with more waist enhancing butter or crème cheese.
Enjoy.
You can also make muffins with the same batter, they get ready in about 35 minutes.

Whats up in your kitchen today?