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It’s cold in Louisiana! On March 1st? What’s that all about?
You know what they say about March – “In like a lion, out like a lamb.”
A lion of a cold front blew in and now we’re back to building a fire at night and wearing sweaters during the day. I know, I know – Northerners would laugh at what we Southerners call cold: in the 30’s at night and not out of the 50’s during the day. Brrrrrrr!
Whatever you call it, I say it’s time for a warm kitchen – and with those over-ripe bananas sitting in the fruit bowl, I have just the cure for the shivers: Banana Nut Bread.
Banana Nut Bread
Yield: one dozen muffins or one 9×9 loaf
Ingredients:
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 4 bananas)
1 cup pecans (or nut of your choice)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix oil and sugar.
Beat in eggs, then bananas, then dry ingredients.
Fill greased muffin tins and bake for 20-25 minutes (30-35 minutes for a loaf) until nutty brown.
Enjoy with a slab – no, no, just a pat – of butter and a hot cup of coffee. By the fire.
Wouldn’t you know it, I have some over-ripe bananas on my kitchen bench and some left over pecans, still in their shells, from my pecan tree! I’ll have to try out this recipe for sure. 🙂
A pecan tree? Lucky you! Ours is on our property in another parish (which we are trying to sell), so I don’t know if I will be fortunate enough to pick them this fall. ❤
This sounds great! I’ve never tried this, but it looks delicious! Going to make them this weekend!
Easy and yummy, Renée! ❤
Stacy, thank you for posting this. Not only am I smelling banana nut bread, am thinking about my grandma who used to make it. Not like muffins, though. In long sweet-smelling loaves. ahhhh…. Happy March!
Yes, it’s already a yummy March, isn’t it, Kathy? ❤
A good antidote for the cold! I like that you get a whole one all to yourself! I think you are colder there than in Washington, today! It was 55 last night and 60’s today. Things are definitely upside down and backwards lately with the weather! I do love a nice snuggly sweater, though! xx
Oh yes, a nice sweater is always welcome! ❤
Best banana bread i ever had was at a place in PA. Even though they gave us the recipe, we couldn’t quite recreate it.
I’ll have to give this one a try…
It’s easy – don’t know if it’s as good as that place in PA, though. ❤
The banana muffins came out great!
(You didn’t put the oven temp in the recipe. We did them at 350. took about 25 min.)
Oh wow, what a dolt I am. But yes, it is 350 (now corrected)….go Guap! ❤