Banana Bread–Juliet’s Plan B

When life gives you lemons… No! Wait. I already used that line in the last post. Let’s start over.

Here’s a better (and more gentle) lede: A hot cup of tea. A warm slice of banana bread. Golden sunshine streaming through the window and warming your face. It doesn’t get any better…

In this moment of making do and foreswearing food waste, I found myself with several disgustingly-squishy ripe bananas. Toss ’em? Not an option. Not now.

In fact, every time I passed the fruit bowl today, I’d swear I heard a little voice whisper “Banana bread. Make banana bread.” My id? Maybe. After all, I have a longstanding love affair with banana bread.

More likely, though, my “banana whisperer” was my pup, sweet Juliet. Juliet is on a treat ration. Juliet is not amused. Maybe banana bread is Juliet’s plan B.

I love banana bread and I’m always on the lookout for a new variation on the theme. This recipe is adapted from one that appears in a relatively new cookbook Midwest Made by Shauna Sever. It is a nice cookbook with a lot of reassuring Midwest recipes like St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake, Apple Pie and this “The Only Banana Bread You Will Ever Need.”  That’s a big boast for a banana bread recipe and it caught my eye. The recipe uses buttermilk and a tot of rum–interesting variations on the usual banana bread recipe.

Over the last four years, I’ve posted a number of banana bread recipes. You can find them by typing bananas into the search bar on the right of your screen.

Here’s my adaptation of the recipe.

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You can buy the Midwest Made cookbook here.