I have a theory that Mondays are for repenting for undoing the damage to your liver psyche or saddlebags you did over the weekend. They’re for getting back on the gym horse picking up those eight glasses of water a day and going to bed early. They’re for kale salad; they’re not for chocolate cake. But boy those bananas that are a fruit fly day aren’t going to eat themselves and they need to be addressed which brings us to this.
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How to Make the Best Banana Bread with Smitten Kitchen
I joked earlier this year that I had a new mantra to tackle all future cooking decisions: WWAE (What Would Alex Eat?) because my husband rarely makes a bad choice. So far it’s yielded spectacular results: hazelnut-Nutella lentil hearts chocolate-peanut butter cheesecake and a cognac-dijon beef stew. (Don’t worry; my interests haven’t completely dimmed yet. See also: fennel-blood-orange salad waxy rice — you know I can hear you snoring right? — oh yeah and salted caramel morning bread pudding .) And for years he’s been trying to convince me to put chocolate in my banana bread. “But why?” I wanted to know. “Banana bread is perfect just the way it is. Is there any dessert that isn’t improved by the addition of chocolate?”
Well Alex: 1 Deb: 0 on this one also because it’s so good that I’ve made it three times in the past week. Three. That would be 0.42 loaves a day if I hadn’t been unloading half cakes on everyone I could. The first one was supposedly for testing but boy was it pretty much perfect. I made the second one to tweak it and sure enough the small change I made improved it so maybe it was justified. But the third one well I made that one because we ran out of the second one and were sad. This cake is like that. It’s just a one-bowl cake requires no special equipment and can be made with stuff you already have; there’s really no reason it can’t be out of the oven in under 75 minutes. I mean unless you’re repentant or something as boring as that in which case here’s a kale and quinoa salad. And now you can have this for dessert.
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