Scrumptious Banana Bread

     Today, I’m going to show you my famous banana bread recipe. It took me years to find and perfect this recipe because most recipes you find on the internet don’t turn out the way you want them to. Banana bread is an excellent recipe for you if you have bananas that are about to go off or are a little browner than you want them to be. These are the ingredients:

-3 ripe bananas (a little brown works good too)
-2 eggs
-1/2 cup oil (or butter, depending on what you like
-1 cup sugar
-1 ¼ cups flour
-1tbsp. baking soda

     Preheat oven to 350 for bread pan, and 400 for muffin tins. Mash bananas. Mix in eggs, oil, and sugar (can be done in food processor). Mix in flour and baking soda. Put in greased pan and bake 1 hour or 11-12 muffin cups for 18-20 minutes. If you double the recipe it can be baked in a round flout pan. Happy baking :)

Air Buns

          Table buns are buns that you can make pretty easily in 2-3 hours that the whole family can enjoy and can be frozen and kept for later too. It’s perfect with butter, or balsamic vinegar and oil. Really, it’s your choice. I like balsamic vinegar. These buns have a soft sweet taste and are delicious. If you don’t want it as sweet, you can put less sugar but it’s up to you. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 tbsp yeast

3 ½ cups warm water (and an extra ½ cup)

½ cup sugar (and an extra 1 tsp)

½ cup oil/melted butter

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp vinegar (malt if you have it)

10 cups flour

Directions:

          Get out a medium bowl (this bowl is going to be emptied into the next one). Dissolve yeast in ½ of warm water and 1 tsp of sugar. Don’t stir. Let sit until yeast is completely dissolved (when putting yeast into water, sprinkle so every bit of yeast touches the water). In a large bowl, blend or whisk water, sugar, oil (or melted butter), salt, and vinegar (if you have herbs you want to add, now is the time to add them. I like to add Italian seasoning and oregano). Add 4 cups of flour and mix until it makes a thin batter. Add yeast mixture and stir until smooth. With one cup at a time, mix in the remaining flour. When dough starts to get hard to stir with a spoon, start to knead until smooth and not sticky (but keep in mind you don’t want to much flour or it will not be a light bun but a hard rock with flour in it). Wash the large bowl you were using or get a different bowl, and grease (or spray with Pam) the sides. Put the dough in the bowl and move around the bowl until it is evenly covered with oil/grease.

          Fill a large bowl or pot with hot water and put it is the oven on the bottom rack but do not turn the oven on. Place the dough bowl above the water in the oven and close. Again, DO NOT TURN ON THE OVEN. Leave in the oven to rise until the dough has doubled. If you can’t use your oven for the rising process, just put it is a warm place. It works just as well. The rising process will take roughly 1 ½ hours.

          When the dough is done rising, punch the middle of the dough and knead for 5 minutes. Make rolls that are about 3 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. Get 3 or 4 egg yolks. Grease pans/pan. Brush egg yolk over each bun and bake at 350 degrees until the top starts to turn orange. After cooking you can eat fresh, put in the fridge, or freeze for later.

French Toast

One of the world’s favorite breakfast specials is, you guessed it, French Toast. It is a very simple recipe that is way better than pancakes. The ingredients are:

8 Pieces Egg Bread
3 Eggs
¾ tsp salt
¾ cup milk

Wisk the eggs, salt, and milk together. Heat the pan to medium. Melt butter in the pan or spray with pam. Soak both sides of the bread in the egg mixture and fry in the pan. You can put syrup, jam, or powdered sugar on the French toast. This recipe is a real delight. Enjoy!