Banana Bread, Onions, and Sadie’s Re-belly-ous Tummy
I ended up using approximately this recipe for banana bread currently in the oven. Without the nuts. It was the only recipe for which I had all the ingredients, being that we have no lemons, lemon juice, or cream of tartar, and using white vinegar just seems odd and doesn’t necessarily give as good results.
It required three bananas to make just about 1 1/3 cup. I added an egg, because they are so small. Normally I’d buy extra large eggs, but Hannaford has 18-packs of large eggs at a price that compares favorably to BJ’s, so we’ve been buying them. Eggs are one of those things we don’t buy at Wal-Mart. For the 3 tablespoons of oil, I melted together a mix of Crisco and butter. The vanilla rebelled against being opened after so long, but eventually hot water won the day.
It looked great going into the pan. We’ll see how it turns out in half an hour or so…
Meanwhile, thinking about making myself a hamburger, I noticed the bag of onions we were given, thought “I could saute onion to go on the burger,” then thought “what am I going to DO with all of those; we never use onions,” and then remembered the idea of making homemade onion rings. I’ll just need to come up with a batter and test it out. Sadie loves onion rings, so that’ll be cool. But I’ll wait until she’s over the stomach bug completely. It seems like maybe she picked something up at her grandmother’s house Monday, or subsequently. Poor kid. At least we had bananas and applesauce on hand for calming it down. She ate almost nothing yesterday, then ate those two things and toast for supper. You know she’s unwell when she leaves half the applesauce.
Update:
Yum! The banana bread came out very nearly perfect. It required the longer range of time suggested by the recipe, plus a little.
My banana bread always takes longer too. I wonder if it’s because I don’t use the nuts?
Posted by Ith on 11/11 at 04:48 PM
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