{"id":55,"date":"2012-07-07T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-09-29T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:19:37","slug":"banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/2012\/07\/07\/banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"banana bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ingredients<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup plus 2 tbsp all-purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup unsalted butter, melted<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>4 over-ripe bananas, mashed<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Directions<\/h1>\n<p>Preheat oven to 325\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p>In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. \u00a0In a large bowl, mix the melted butter and sugar until just blended. \u00a0Beat in the eggs one at a time. \u00a0Stir in the mashed bananas and the vanilla extract. \u00a0Add the flour mixture in two additions.<\/p>\n<p>Butter a loaf pan, and pour the banana bread dough into it. \u00a0Bake for 60-75 minutes. \u00a0Let cool in the loaf pan.<\/p>\n<h1>Notes<\/h1>\n<p>If you were to measure a favorite recipe by how frequently it&#8217;s made, then this recipe is probably the top of our list. \u00a0We always have a bunch of bananas in the house, since my standard breakfast is a latte and a banana. \u00a0But we often don&#8217;t eat all of the bananas before they get too ripe. \u00a0So the leftover bananas go into a quart-sized freezer bag. \u00a0A quart-sized freezer bag holds 4 bananas perfectly, and thus it&#8217;s perfect for this recipe. \u00a0I peel the bananas, since I only ever use frozen bananas for banana bread; you can leave the peel on if you&#8217;re going to use your frozen bananas for smoothies or other purposes. \u00a0On the day that I bake the banana bread, I pull the bananas out of the freezer and let defrost for a half-hour or so, and then squish them around in their bag a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The original recipe is based on the one found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nigella.com\/\">Nigella Lawson<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0786886811\/littlebluewor-20\">How To Be a Domestic Goddess<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0The only changes that I make is that I don&#8217;t bother with the golden raisins or the walnuts. \u00a0I like my banana bread plain.<\/p>\n<p>I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1013989-banana-banana-bread\">a recipe for banana banana bread from the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, and it&#8217;s not half as good as this banana bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 1 cup plus 2 tbsp all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1\/2 tsp baking soda 1\/2 tsp salt 1\/2 cup unsalted butter, melted 1\/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 4 over-ripe bananas, mashed 1 tsp vanilla extract Directions Preheat oven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/2012\/07\/07\/banana-bread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banana","category-quick-bread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/dinnerfortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}