Banana Bread

Our Fairy has been doing a unit on Curious George these last three weeks...we brought Curious George and his Adventure bag home for a couple of days and inside was the book, and scrapbook of her class's "adventures"--bike day, museum, library, "camping" as well as Curious George's adventures with each of the children in their home or wherever they happen to be during those few days they have him. Our family's big adventure was to go the the big kid playground (reserved for 1-5th graders) while Our Princess was at soccer practice. It was a cute idea.

Also inside the book was a recipe for Curious George banana bread...so far it smells great, hopefully it tastes great as well...I love banana bread warm with butter...mmmmm....

Anyways, here is the recipe!

3 ripe bananas, mashed

1 3/4 cup of AP flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup butter

2/3 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp cinnamon (optional--I did one with and one without...we'll see which is better!)

Set oven to 350.

Mix all the ingredients well, so there are no lumps.

Put in greased loaf pan.

Bake for one hour, or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean. I'd let it sit for a bit and cool off so that it holds together when you cut it. You can always nuke it to make it warm later.

Now, the one on the left was the better of the two...it has the cinnamon in it...we really couldn't tast the difference...it was cooked in the more narrow ( narrower?) clear loaf pan while the one on the right was cooked in a wider dark glass loaf pan. Oliver said the texture on the left was better.