Both yummerz!
My bananas were browning, though still had yellow bits to the skin. I'd rather have a moister bread and use an extra banana than allow the nanner to overripen and result in an overly sweet bread. Much like controlling salt, to me, sugar is something that needs to be manipulated to perfection.
My one mistake was shorting the glass pan bottom of a liberal greasing-- I like to keep butter wrappers in a ziploc in the fridge for just this purpose, but decided not to take the extra couple of seconds to remove a wrapper. Since the banana bread recipe calls for a half cup, I already had a stick's worth. The land-o-lakes flavor saver wrapper? Also keeps a lot of the butter off the wrapper (it's extra waxy) so it didn't work as well. Note to self: don't skip the grease.
My trick for awesome banana bread is to add a tablespoon of russian plain yogurt to the bananas when I mash them. I also like to add the buttermilk with the bananas, making a thick soupy consistency to add to the batter. I use the banana bread recipe from Betty Crocker's everyday cookbook-- 2.5 cups white flour (wheat ok to sub); 1.25 cups sugar; .5 cup buttermilk; 2 large eggs: 1 tsp each of vanilla, baking soda & salt; 1 tbsp yogurt; 3-4 ripe (but not totally brownie-gross) bananas. I leave my bananas unadulterated (see: no nuts).
Cream butter with sugar; mix eggs; add mashed banana/buttermilk/ vanilla/yogurt; combine baking soda + salt + flour & whisk, stir in flour until mixed, barely; divide between two bottom-(well)greased glass loaf pans, bake in 350 oven for an hour or until it toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 - 15 minutes in pan, remove to rack; cool for 20 minutes at least (unless you like a burned tongue).
Store by wrapping tightly or tupperwaring or the like. You can read; you should be able to figure out the storage.
Hash is pretty easy-- chicken breast cut into similar, approx 1 inch peices, panfried + potatoes + sweet white corn kernels + onion, done in olive oil, seasoned with Old Bay, a tad kosher salt & fresh ground pepper, accompanied by toast.
If I could eat 'em, a scrambled egg might be nice in there, too.
A delicious Wednesday, indeed.
N's totally finishing off the cookies from Saturday. Hehehehe.
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