Save your bananas ...

[Laura's Babies]

I bake banana bread on the boat a lot. I have bananas here but if I bake it, I will eat it so I can not.....but I will bake one on the boat and remember him when I do!

[caseysmom]

I have a loaf in the oven right now Karen. I plan on getting it out of the oven in an hour and slicing up a piece and slathering it in butter and toasting uncle Mac for you.

[Rachel]

Karen, I was very fond of my great aunts and uncles and your Uncle Mac will be celebrated in our house along with my own with some of his banana bread. We happen to be very fond of BB here. I hope Uncle Mac won't mind if we substitute Smart Balance for the butter and a cup of whole wheat flour along with a cup of the regular kind.

I'm so sorry you have become allergic to bananas.

[Karen]

No, Rachel, he wouldn't mind. One of my Great Aunts on the other side (Mac's brother-in-law's sister-in-law) was a stickler for doing things exactly as proscribed, but the rest of the clan was cool with adjusting as need be!

Thank you everyone else, and Dorothy39, I always had a heck of a time remembering to let 4 get good and speckly - I'd eat #4 and THEN remember - but our grocery store often has the "overripe" ones on special!

[caseysmom]

When me and my daughter were making up the batch she said "you use real bananas" I said yeah thats where the name banana bread comes from, she said I thought they used banana flavoring..hehe I guess I need to bake more with her. I had her mash the bananas and she said it was "narley".

[Karen]

Hee hee - tell her there's no such thing as "banana flavor" - anything artificially banana is just evil!

We were all involved with cooking from an early age, as it should be! Mushing up the 'nanas is fun!

[caseysmom]

I should cook with the kids more, I don't bake much myself. Usually we get home from whatever sport/activity and I am in a big hurry to cook dinner while they do their homework and baths.