Mia Cucina Su Cucina

My boys insisted that they “needed” bananas when we were shopping last week. The bananas sat in the fruit bowl, first they were green, then they were yellow and today I noticed they were brown. My boys were on their way to bed when I took the bread out of the oven. They tried to convince me to give them some and then as a last ditch effort they ask if they could have some with their lunch tomorrow. I agreed and they went off to bed happy,                                               at least they now want to eat the bananas.  

Bananas are the only produce that I am happy to let “go bad”. Once they’re nice and brown, I’m ready to make banana bread. A thick slice of banana bread, yum! Everyone has their little variations (add nuts, don’t add nuts, chocolate chips, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice). My variation follows;

I sprinkle the nuts on top of my bread, because my boys are not nut eaters and I love them. I do not like chunks of banana in my bread, so I puree them in the blender.  

Dough
1/2 cup butter, 1stick
1cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg, freshly ground
1 cup pecans, chopped
3 bananas, pureed (blender)

Cream the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer; add eggs and mix well. Mix in flour, soda, salt and nutmeg until just mixed. Add pureed bananas, mix well. Stir in nuts. Pour batter in to a well greased 9X5 loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a toothpick, inserted in to the middle, comes out clean.