I keep waiting to put the wrong date on a post. That’s coming any day now, I just know it.
Anyone who has spoken to me on the phone lately knows that I’ve had three bananas sitting on my counter that have been getting browner by the day. (There were eight in the original bunch, but the remaining three browned really quickly.) Every day I thought I would make banana bread, and every day I did not make it.
Yesterday I finally made it, but I didn’t want to use the same old banana nut bread recipe from Fannie Farmer that I’ve used for 30 years. (Jesus Christ, I can’t believe I’ve been doing anything for 30 years.) So I used a recipe from Gingerbread: 99 Delicious Recipes From Sweet to Savory that required fresh ginger.
It came out great, just delicious, and not too sweet. Wonderful with cream cheese. The loaf is half-gone now.
Yum… It looks delicious. Since I’m so susceptible to the food suggestions that you, Barbara and Joan write about, I’d say there will be banana bread in our house within the week.
Ah, the power of suggestion. I’m exactly the same way, which is why I don’t watch the Food Channel as much as I used to, and I don’t subscribe to Gourmet and Bon Appetit anymore. 😦
I do the same thing with my old bananas… look at them thinking I’ll bake banana bread, then I throw them away. I am too tired. But that looks so awesome. Yum.
@ Little Miss – Another thing you can do when you’re feeling really unmotivated with your bananas is to just put them in the freezer, skin and all. When you feel like something “treat like” you can toss them in a food processor or just mash them up, they taste just like banana ice cream.
I hate wasting food. It’s a problem for my waistline, though.
You ate it with cream cheese??? I hope you added sugar to the cream cheese and maybe butter.
Craig used to make sourdough banana bread. It was amazing. Yes, that’s the same Craig who, after living in this house for eighteen years, still isn’t quite sure where the pans are.
He also made sourdough danish pastry which was to die for.
@ Barbara – Welllllll, I’m just speechless. Why doesn’t he make it now?! And sourdough danish pastry sounds so delicious I could freak out right now. Freak out.
The pastry here is bad. Or maybe I should rephrase that and say we have yet to find a good pastry place here. But maybe that’s a good thing.
You should go read Moonbeam’s latest post. You’d like it, Bible Scholar.
I forgot all about Craig’s sourdough bread. He always had sourdough starter in the fridge. I am drooling for food like that as I eat my Healthy Choice lunch of Salisbury steak, soggy green beans and instant mashed potatoes (they can’t be real), and of course the little apple dessert that comes with it.
@ Joan – I love Salisbury steak. Even bad Salisbury steak, like the kind they served in school. I’m not picky, which is why I eat both health food and junk food I guess.
Barbara, I forgot to mention that yes, I ate it with plain cream cheese. No sugar or butter added, but probably because I didn’t think of it. Had I thought of it, things might have been different.
That loaf looks great! We have a beat up copy of Fannie Farmer, ripe bananas, and crystallized ginger is a household staple. Ditto on the frozen bananas. I love them brown, so they hardly ever make it to bread or freezer. But that loaf looks so good! And so does the cooling rack and granite (or whatever) counter underneath.