Of Simple Banana Bread Recipes and Keeping the Apartment Warm

November 16, 2023

It was a banana bread type of evening...and I love how this piece came out

Hi beautiful people,

I do not consider myself a foodie but every Fall, I find myself measuring, mixing and baking stuff. Part of it is because I love the smell of baked goodies and the other part is because the oven helps to warm up my apartment.

I think I may have mentioned this before but I live in 'the penthouse' - the only unit on the topmost floor. And because Lancaster is an old town, it has old buildings with old central heating systems...I swear the heat gets lost in transmission enroute to my unit because there are evenings I feel like I am outside in the cold...this is where baking comes in.

This Fall, I will be sharing some of my baking recipes (when I remember to document the process). To get us started, a simple banana bread recipe that I used this evening (I did a better job than the Blackberry Pie recipe).

Ingredients: 2 Bananas, 1/3 cup butter, 1.5 cup of all-purpose flour, 0.75 cup of sugar, 1.5 tsp baking powder (should be 0.5 tsp baking soda but I keep forgetting to buy it), 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 egg

Mash the bananas (I do it with a fork, one at a time)

In a separate bowl, mix the baking powder (or baking soda) and sugar

Love it when the butter is marked - melt 1/3 cup for this recipe (I do not own a microwave - my way of avoiding all the ‘one minute meals’ and having loads of leftovers that may end up in the trash - so I melt my butter by placing it in one of those heat friendly ceramic bowls, then placing the bowl in a pan with hot water - water warms bowl, bowl melts butter)