• Food

    Banana Walnut Bread

    Bananas are a food that doesn’t last terribly long in this house. They are consumed quickly, on average we go through 3 bunches of bananas a week. It’s like I never feed these boys. With this social distancing going on, I may have stocked up on bananas more than usual, so this week I had enough to make a couple of loaves of banana walnut bread. There are many versions of banana bread, some use pecans, others add in chocolate chips. This good o’le version is definitely my favorite. While pecans are tasty, I prefer walnuts. I think this recipe is my favorite because it is relatively lactose-free with no…

  • Food

    Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

    Being the mother to 4 boys, we go through bananas like the apocalypse is tomorrow. It is a rare occasion when we have overly ripe bananas that I can use to create banana bread or muffins. Goob especially loves bananas, having one for breakfast has become a ritual for him. His whole day is thrown off if he doesn’t start with a banana. By some miracle, last week I had 3 overly ripe bananas I needed to do something with. I also had some sour cream that needed to be used up. I remembered that sour cream in other baked goods causes the texture to be fluffy and light. That…