This is from “Healthy Cooking For Two” by Frances Price (which is a great cookbook, I’m really enjoying the recipes:
Ingredients (for 8 slices):
Sifted all-purpose flour — 1 1/4 cups
Baking powder — 1/2 teaspoon
Baking soda — 1/4 teaspoon
Sugar — 1/3 cup
Eggs — 1
Butter or margarine (softened) — 2 tablespoons
Mashed ripe bananas — 1/2 cup
low-fat plain yogurt — 2 tablespoons
chopped pecans or walnuts — 1/4 cup
Preheat the oven to 350
Grease and flour a 9 x 5″ loaf pan
In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
In another medium bowl, beat the sugar, eggs & butter until fluffy. Slowly beat in bananas and yogurt. Add the flour mix until blended. Do not overmix or the loaf will be tough. Stir in nuts (if using).
Spoon the batter into the loaf pan and bake on the middle shelf for 35 – 40 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean).
Cook the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then invert onto rack and let cool completely. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and let stand overnight to mellow the flavors.
Except we just ate it. And it was good.




























































































Jan 19th
2007
10:52 pm
Rainy Said:
Jenna,
You are amazing! Do you ever stop? You do manage get the most of our day and I admire that!
That recipie sounds good? Is that cook book a new one?
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Jan 19th
2007
11:37 pm
Jenna Petersen Said:
LOL, well I was done with the book when I made the bread. So I’m not really multi-tasking on this one. I think it is a fairly recent cookbook and it’s great! Since it’s just El Guapo and I, recipes for two are awesome.
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Jan 20th
2007
10:44 am
Shana Said:
This sounds yummy, but I don’t cook! Any great banana bread for sale at the grocery store?
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Jan 20th
2007
11:17 am
Julie K Said:
Thanks for the recipe, Jenna! I can’t wait to try it.
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Jan 20th
2007
11:47 am
Robyn DeHart Said:
Maybe it’s a weird author thing or maybe it’s just me and you, Jenna. But when I turned my book in on Monday, I made homemade whole-wheat Strawberry-orange muffins that were sooooo yummy. They were gone the next day.
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Jan 20th
2007
11:49 am
Jenna Petersen Said:
I think it must be a nesting thing. I know when I’m in the end of writing a book, and this time it was on a crunch (or it felt like it to me), I leave all other things by the wayside. So baking something or cleaning when I’m done makes me feel like I’m getting back to the world.
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Jan 20th
2007
7:35 pm
Shirley Karr Said:
Aw, come on, Shane… I don’t cook, and I can make banana bread!
I’m going to try the recipe above, except we use whole wheat pastry flour instead of the over-processed white stuff that has zero nutritional value left.
Has to be the pastry version, though, or it tastes like sawdust. Can anyone recommend a good whole wheat bread that doesn’t taste like sawdust?
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Dec 4th
2007
5:51 am
wasntme65 Said:
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