"Don't throw them out, I'll make banana bread!"
This happened again the other night, three over-ripe bananas at Paul's place and I was already re-arranging my schedule to make time to bake banana bread. This is starting to happen quite often, why can't I just throw the bananas away like the average person that has expired fruit?!
It's just so easy, so delicious, and makes everyone happy. So before bed on a Monday evening I find myself in the kitchen again, baking banana bread. For a little twist, I added dark chocolate discs to one loaf.
Now, I am just not ready to give away my mom's banana bread recipe secret, but I will list some of my favorite baked things with banana in them:
- Wheatgerm banana pancakes
- Banana bread (obviously), but try adding semi-sweet chocolate discs, a peanut butter swirl, or pecans
- Banana cake with white chocolate frosting
...And grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich
(You don't even have to know how to bake a thing with this one!)
Ingredients:(You don't even have to know how to bake a thing with this one!)
- Two slices of your favorite bread (day-old honey wheat or challah are great choices)
- Your favorite peanut butter
- Banana sliced into thin discs (you want a banana that is just starting to speckle for this, a "ripe" banana --> )
- Butter (or margarine)
- Cinnamon and sugar (or Splenda sweetener) mixture
Instructions:
- Assemble sandwich with as much peanut butter as you like and lay as many banana discs flat as you can fit over the peanut butter
- Close up the sandwich and lightly butter both pieces of bread on the outsides of the sandwich
- Sprinkle cinnamon/sugar over the buttered outside pieces of bread
- Grill in a pan on the stove like you would with a grilled cheese
- Eat it! I do this with a knife and fork ;)
