Peggy C's photos with the keyword: bananas

So much fun.. Laugh... Fun with friends .. Your sides will hurt from so much laughter.. There are several categories.. Words.. People.. Movies, etc... We usually do words.. words you probably have never heard of and never will again .. But, you have to make up a definition of the word; write it down; pass it to the person in charge (called the Dasher). You move your game piece on the board.. can't explain all of it.. would take up too much space. You have to get this ! It takes hours to finish, but you don't notice since you are having so much fun ! The definitions your friends (and you) create are hilarious! This is the box and some of the papers answers were written on (or at least what we thought were good answers !) Dinner with friends; sharing Mango Wine; green tea & dipping fruit in dark chocolate fondue... Life is good ! © All rights reserved ARCHIVE AIRINGS AA295-GAMES en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash

Banana Bread put on rack to cool .. both loaves .. took one to the drum circle .. came home with an empty pan .. requests made to 'please make more?' .. - preheat oven to 350 degrees F, with rack placed in lowest position - pan sizes: 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 (2 loaves) or 9 x 5 x 3 (1 loaf) Recipe Ingredients: 1 c. sugar 1/4 c. unsweetened applesauce 1/4 c. butter / room temp. 1/2 c. eggs ... 2 eggs ... 1 1/2 c. mashed bananas .. 3 or 4 1/2 c. sour milk .. can use regular and just add vinegar or lemon juice to sour it 1 t. vanilla [ didn't use vanilla: used spices instead] 1 t. ginger & 1/2 t. allspice 2 c. Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose flour 1/2 c. cornstarch [ if making w/regular wheat flour .. leave out cornstarch .. make flour amount= 2 1/2 c. all purpose flour ] 1 t. baking soda 1 c. chopped nuts [ opt ] -- but, if toasted ahead of time, taste so good Directions: In large bowl, put all dry ingredients. Mix well with spoon. [ not the nuts, yet ] For wet ingredients - mix well in a separate bowl. Combine wet ingredients into the dry; mix well. Add nuts and stir. Spoon into loaf pan [s] which have been greased on the bottom only. Bake the smaller 8.5 " pans for about 1 hour. The 9" loaf .. about 1 1/2 hrs. Note: baked 2 8.5" pans just under an hour. Toothpick inserted in center should come out clean. Remove and place on cooling rack for 10 min. Then, loosen sides of pan [s] and place top side up on rack to completely cool. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store at room temp. up to 4 days or refrigerate up to 10 days. Plan on making more and freezing them. ** For the Banana-Brandon topping: - slice bananas length wise & place over batter before baking - sprinkle a mix of cinnamon .. nutmeg .. ground cloves and either brown sugar or cane sugar .. this caramelizes on top. All this part is subject to how much intensity of spice you like. But, oh -- this is really good ! Would give credit to the original recipe, but have no idea where I got it. Have changed my baking to no wheat/gluten., but this one used to be made with regular flour. * all photos: © All Rights Reserved

- still green - Lady Finger bananas - makes good banana bread - purple ? - just fun in the Monkey - edited in: www.picmonkey.com © All Rights Reserved

This is my version of 'Brandon Banana Bread' before it got to the cooling rack! , Sort of followed your recipe, but when I got to the 1/4 t. cloves, had none.. substituted 1/4 t. ginger & 1/8 t. allspice. Toasted the nuts before folding them in to the batter. On top, since I used Lady Finger bananas (from the backyard trees), sliced them in half long way to cover top before the liberal cinnamon & sugar sprinkle. Found out the hard way that this pan (not used in ages) wasn't the correct size.. now have an oven to clean! But, it is worth it! This is blasted good stuff! Think I could live on it! Thanks for your ideas. Namaste © All Rights Reserved

. Banana Bread Oven at 350 deg / grease a 9x5 pan (the picture is not in a 9x5, so that is why it spilled over..now gotta clean the oven! You need: all purpose flour; baking powder; salt; baking soda; 1 stick butter; 3 eggs; salt;sugar (either brown and/or granulated);cinnamon;nutmeg;cloves (or ginger,allspice); chopped nuts; about 5 bananas total.. Combine: 2 1/3 c. all purpose flour / Gluten Free 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt In a large bowl, cream: 1 stick butter.. softened with 1 c. sugar... then add 3 eggs. Mix well. Mash 3 large bananas (ripe).. add to the butter mix. Add: 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg (ground) 1/4 tsp. ground cloves (if you don't have all these, ginger and allspice can be used as a sub) Add: flour mixture.. little at a time. Mix well. Fold in 1/2cup chopped nuts (toasting them first, gives a really nice flavor) Pour mixture in 9 x 5 loaf pan. Now......... this is from Brandon [on the other side] --- make a mixture of brown sugar and/or granulated sugar and a lot of ground cinnamon. Slice more bananas and cover the entire top of the loaf. Sprinkle liberally with the cinnamon/sugar mix. Bake at 350 deg.... check at 45 min. When tester comes out clean, remove from oven (my loaf took almost a full hour). Cool in pan for 10 min., turn out on a rack to finish cooling (put wax paper beneath the rack) Enjoy! © All rights reserved

cut the hand of bananas... the tree had fallen over shortly after this was snapped. ©SD All Rights Reserved

cut the hand later, when the tree fell over .. © All rights reserved