Earth Day Was Yesterday

You know when you love bananas so much that you buy like 20 of them and think to yourself, I'm gonna eat all these mofos before they go bad?  You know when you can't keep up with the banana commitment and the bananas start to go brown and get nastypants and you don't have the heart to throw them away, but you also can't eat them because they taste like chewed up baby food?  At this moment you remember how the ripest/brownest bananas are the best for making banana bread, and you just want comfort food, so at 11pm on a Monday night you decide to make said banana bread?  Yes.  Let's go.

Easy Peasy Banana Bread
adapted from common sense

3 medium-sized over ripened bananas
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit   Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt into a bowl, and stir until combined.

2.  Peel bananas and remove the phloem from the peeled banana.  (Fun fact: phloem is the correct term for those stringy things on a banana!  Knowledge!)

3.  In a separate bowl from the dry ingredients, mush the peeled bananas.  Add eggs, vanilla extract, and vegetable oil to banana bowl.  Mush ingredients together with wooden spoon (or giant spoon) until completely combined.

4.  Stir dry ingredients into the wet ingredients little by little until completely combined.

5.  Grease a 4x8 inch loaf pan or (in my case) an 8x8x2 inch cake pan, and pour batter evenly into the pan.

6.  Bake for 60-70 minutes or until top is golden brown.  Remove from oven, and allow to cool (or burn the roof of your mouth eating it before cooled... your choice).  Enjoy!

So my issue with the banana bread was that, as someone who is used to baking 10 minute cookies, it was very difficult to wait the whole 60-70 minutes for the bread to be ready.  If you're looking for less of a bread crust on the outside, and more of a banana bread cake, then do what I did and pull it out 20 minutes early.

OR if you are more patient, then wait the whole 70 minutes and sit on your bed watching Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives while licking the remaining batter from the bowl... hypothetically.

GODSPEED & GOODNIGHT.