Do any of you feel bad throwing out food? I do. It bothers me. BAD. You work so hard to make money to pay the bills and buy food, and then it just ends up in the garbage? Like clothes, why not reuse food.
My kids enjoy fruit. This is a very good thing. But sometimes they cannot eat it before it starts to spoil. Again, I cannot bring myself to throw it out. Call me cheap or maybe frugal. In my mind, I am re-purposing it or making it as an ingredient in a recipe. On the microwave sits the bananas. The ones that are starting to yellow, get those brown spots, and just look sad. The kids look at them and say YUCK! I say let's turn YUCK into YUM. I am not a waster!
It is brutally cold here in Rochester again. The white snow blowing and come down so hard while blustering temperatures chill the windows. So what better to do is bake and warm up the house. Those bananas have been saved and will be turned into bread.
My husband loves chocolate chips in his bread and my kids like regular bread so I will bake the bread two ways. The regular bread I added a crumb topping that I normally add to my apple crisp. Too bad these pictures are not scratch and sniff because the aroma that filed my kitchen was AMAZING!
This is a family recipe from my grandmother who has now passed on 4 years ago yesterday. This recipe can be used for any type of bread including zucchini which was my grandmothers forte. May she rest in peace.
Banana Bread
1 cup of vegatable oil
3 eggs
2 cups of brown sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp of nutmeg
3 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of baking soda
Mashed bananas (or whatever bread you are making)
Nuts or Chocolate Chips (if you want)
Mix the first set of ingredients together. Then add in the second set of ingredients. Bake on 350 for about 30-35 min. This makes 2 loaves.
With making two different kinds of bread, i put some of the mixture in a greased pan and then added the chocolate chips to the rest of the mixture and poured into the 2nd pan.
The Crumb Topping
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of flour
1 1/2 sticks of butter/margarine
3 tsp of cinnamon
Put all of the ingredients in the bowl and work with your hands to mash the butter into the dry ingredients and make a crumbly topping. Add to the top of the plain bread mixture and put into the oven.
My kids enjoy fruit. This is a very good thing. But sometimes they cannot eat it before it starts to spoil. Again, I cannot bring myself to throw it out. Call me cheap or maybe frugal. In my mind, I am re-purposing it or making it as an ingredient in a recipe. On the microwave sits the bananas. The ones that are starting to yellow, get those brown spots, and just look sad. The kids look at them and say YUCK! I say let's turn YUCK into YUM. I am not a waster!
It is brutally cold here in Rochester again. The white snow blowing and come down so hard while blustering temperatures chill the windows. So what better to do is bake and warm up the house. Those bananas have been saved and will be turned into bread.
My husband loves chocolate chips in his bread and my kids like regular bread so I will bake the bread two ways. The regular bread I added a crumb topping that I normally add to my apple crisp. Too bad these pictures are not scratch and sniff because the aroma that filed my kitchen was AMAZING!
This is a family recipe from my grandmother who has now passed on 4 years ago yesterday. This recipe can be used for any type of bread including zucchini which was my grandmothers forte. May she rest in peace.
Banana Bread
1 cup of vegatable oil
3 eggs
2 cups of brown sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp of nutmeg
3 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of baking soda
Mashed bananas (or whatever bread you are making)
Nuts or Chocolate Chips (if you want)
Mix the first set of ingredients together. Then add in the second set of ingredients. Bake on 350 for about 30-35 min. This makes 2 loaves.
With making two different kinds of bread, i put some of the mixture in a greased pan and then added the chocolate chips to the rest of the mixture and poured into the 2nd pan.
The Crumb Topping
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of flour
1 1/2 sticks of butter/margarine
3 tsp of cinnamon
Put all of the ingredients in the bowl and work with your hands to mash the butter into the dry ingredients and make a crumbly topping. Add to the top of the plain bread mixture and put into the oven.