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Donna Marie
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What is your favorite recipe? I lost my beloved batter-encrusted recipe card  and I am longing for a good recipe in hand once again...any recommendations?? 
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Our favorite:
Cream together 1/2 c. butter and 1/2 c. sugar.
Add 2 eggs and mix well.
Mash 4 bananas and add to above.
In separate bowl mix 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 2 c. flour and 3 Tbl milk.
Add it all together and pour into a greased and floured pan.
Bake at 325 for 1 hour.
Enjoy!
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Donna Marie, I posted my husband's favorite a while back. It makes two loaves (one to eat, one to freeze) and we call it: Bill's (Mean) Banana Bread. I like to sneak some chocoate chips in there now and again  ... and oh, is it good with some cream cheese frosting!  
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One thing that seems to work great is to peel/freeze the bananas when they're just a tad over-ripe. If you freeze them in sets of 3 in a gal bag, than you can get them out, thaw them and "pour" the whole mess into the batter. This keeps you from over-beat them to mix them in (the freezing helps break them down a bit) and the liquid adds a bit of moisture to the bread.
I've done this for years -- with any banana bread recipe -- and it's always turned out moist and delicious. I like to freeze them as I don't always feel like making banana bread when the bananas are ready!
The peeled/frozen bananas are a great addition to smoothies too!
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There are so many fabulous recipes it's hard to choose! I like Martha Stewart's (and so do the kids and most visiting friends). Warning: There is nothing low fat about this recipe! ( Jenn makes it with yogurt instead of sour cream.)
Makes one large loaf or 4 small loaves
1/4 pound (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup mashed very ripe bananas (I use one banana and call it a day)
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped pecans--or walnuts (if you must)
Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan or several small pans. (I use PC's stoneware loaf pan--yum; keeps the bread warm a long time--their mini-loaf pan is good, too)
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, beating well.
Sift the dry ingredients (I don't, but doesn't hurt, I guess) and combine with the butter miexture. Blend well. Add the bananas, sour cream, and vanilla. Stir well. Stir in the nuts and poiur into the prepared pan.
Bake 1 hour, until a cake tester comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack to cool.
I have found that I have needed to adjust temperature and cooking times (lower usually) with different ovens. Jenn, I think, has no trouble with the recipe as it is printed.
(Recipe from The Martha Stewart Cookbook, with some comments inserted!)
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Mary, I also freeze the bananas. As you say, great for smoothies. We waste so much less that way.
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I love Dawn's mix and match recipe. But I can't find it on her blog because she doesn't have a search box.
Hint, hint...
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Oh gosh, too many. My current favorite is Dorie Greenspan's, in the book Baking: From My Heart to Yours. It's "black and white" -- with chocolate of course! I have an old favorite that's got a lemony flavor to it, but I've lost the recipe .
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lapazfarm wrote:
I love Dawn's mix and match recipe. But I can't find it on her blog because she doesn't have a search box.
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I'm on it Theresa! (What's a search box?  )
The banana bread I posted above is the mix-and-match recipe - but I also have it somewhere at my old food blog (with all the 2 cup variations listed). I will try to track it down.
ETA - Way to know your own blog, Dawn  the Mix and Match are listed in that banana bread post (scroll down).
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Dawn, if you look at the sidebar on my blog, scroll down a bit and below the archives there is a search box. That way if you want to find anything on my blog (say, the one about chestnut trees) and don't want to wade through all the posts in a category (nature study), you can do a keyword search.
It is pretty convenient.
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I recently made the Corny Banana Oat Bread in Whole Foods for the Whole Family, and it was a big hit.
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup honey
2 eggs
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 3)
Cream oil and honey in bowl. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well. Combine dry ingredients. Add to honey mixture alternately with bananas, beating well after each addition. Pour into greased 5x9-inch loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour or until loaf tests done. May substitute melted butter for oil or brown sugar for honey. Yield: 12 servings.
** I also added about 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.
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My church cookbook has a recipe for banana bread that I love because it's so simple. The lady who contributed it likes to have her little kids mash up the bananas in a ziploc bag while she mixes the other ingredients, which I imagine could be done for most recipes. 
[I'm sqeamish about posting and copyright (don't know the rules in a forum vs. other websites) but I can PM anyone who wants it.]
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Wow, it's been so long since I made banana bread. And thank you very much, Donna, you've just given me a huge craving for banana bread. But I definitely am not up to making it!
Anyone have an egg, milk, and wheat free recipe?
We rarely have bananas left over in this house, so it's hard to find extras
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JennGM wrote:
Anyone have an egg, milk, and wheat free recipe?
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Here you go, Jenn:
Allergy-Free Banana-Chocolate Bread -- would love for you to try it and let me know what you think!
I know what you mean about the leftover bananas. I was going to try and play w/ Dorie G's recipe to make it allergy-free but found out dh ate the last 2 -- he should have known there was a reason they were turning brown on the counter!
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JennGM wrote:
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Anyone have an egg, milk, and wheat free recipe?
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Jenn: I went egg and dairy free for awhile, so I've got egg replacement and rice milk, and I've got a container full of gluten free "flour" in my pantry. Want me to bring some over??
A word about freezing bananas-- don't just defrost them on a plate and dump the water. The banannas will be dehydrated, and so will your bread (found that out the hard way!  ) Thanks Alton Brown!
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Sorry - maybe I should not have posted the recipe from Whole Foods? I guess I have always thought that giving someone a recipe or two from a cookbook would make them more likely to buy it! But if that is against forum policy I will delete.
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It's not a fancy recipe.. but there's just something about the recipe you grew up with (when it's good) that just can't be replaced
This is just a real simple recipe but it always comes out good. I've added nuts and dates and raisins and chocolate chips... about a cup of any one thing and not more than about 2 cups total addition.
1 3/4 Cup all purpose flour
2/3 Cup sugar
1 Tsp baking pwd
1/2 Tsp salt
1/4 Tsp baking soda
1/2 Cup shortening (I've used butter instead
1 Cup mashed banana (about 2)
2 eggs slightly beaten
preheat oven to 350. grease and flour 9x5 loaf pan. Mix first 5 ingredients, cut in shortening, stir in bananas and eggs until just blended. spread evenly in pan.
Bake 55-60 min. until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (I think I check it at 45-50 min). cool 10 min remove from pan.
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The banana bread recipe that I grew up eating calls for a cup of oil. It's delicious, but too much fat for us now.
I googled recipes and tinkered a bit to come up with the one below, which we all LOVE! (It doesn't taste as healthy as it is. )
Almost No Fat Banana Bread
This bread is surprising moist and has a wonderful flavor. For a little variation, you can add nuts or raisins.
Makes 1 - 8x4 inch loaf 12 servings).
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs
1 cup banana, mashed
1/4 cup applesauce
Directions
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan.
2 In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Add eggs, bananas and applesauce; stir just until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3 Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean. Turn out onto wire rack and allow to cool before slicing.
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Not a recipe, but an idea:
Sprinkle seeds (sesame, flax, sunflower, or a mix) into the greased pan before baking.) Healthy and yum!
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