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I have a foodie confession: While I do like fruit, I almost never eat it in its full form. I try -- really I do. I buy fruit and eat some nibbles, but before I get to the rest, it inevitably goes bad and I have to either have to throw it into a smoothie pronto, or freeze it for a smoothie later. But that's not the case with my beloved banana.
Banana is the wonderful fruit that's good even when it's bad. The blacker and more shriveled that the skin is, the better it is for baking up a batch of banana bread. I picked some up a few weeks ago, with the best of intentions, but they went black before I could eat them. But they're bananas! So, no matter how hot my apartment was, I knew what I had to do.
As if that wasn't good enough -- recipes that allow you to make the most of fruit going bad -- banana bread is one of the easiest and most forgiving foods to bake. The above was whipped up half-assed. I doubled my recipe. I didn't level off my measurements. I smushed and mixed it all together in the end with a potato masher. But still, the end result was a nice warm cakey bread with a little bit of melting butter.
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7-14-2008 @7:30PM Maddie said... I love banana bread. Love love love it. I often find myself with spare bananas that are too ripe to eat. But I have a confession here: I have never made banana bread. I don't know how. I am so ashamed. Help me please!
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7-15-2008 @10:30AM LongIslandFoodie said... I usually take black bananas and putting them in the blender with some frozen berries, some orange juice and some kefir to whip up a delicious smoothie.
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7-15-2008 @11:07AM Lee said... While I'm a huge fan of banana bread, lately I've been on a Banana-Oatmeal cookie fixation. My mom sent me this recipe a couple of years ago and I've puttered around with it to it's current incarnation. http://kitchenbrother.com/?p=16
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7-16-2008 @2:10AM Tammy said... Put your bananas in the fridge when you buy them ... They'll stay fresher longer (but the skin will still turn black) ... Just don't put them in a drawer with apples or tomatoes (bad gas combos encourage spoilage) ...
If you buy a bunch, separate them (preferably with a knife) before you put them in the fridge (as each time you pull one off the bunch, it's a shock to the system of the others & causes them to go bad faster) ...
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