My version of lazy ass Banana Bread

Note: Scheduled post. This was baked on Monday night.

It's quite mind-boggling how the two of us can be so lazy. I had been thinking of making banana bread or chiffon cake for the last few days, and over the last few days, have been slowly acquiring the necessary ingredients. Like cockroach-less bananas, which is a whole other story in itself.

I even bothered to pop home earlier to settle a solid block of frozen butter on the countertop to thaw before running to my other home for dinner. So imagine how annoyed when I was ready to bake banana bread (it won because the bananas were ripening really fast and B1 refused to eat bananas ever since the previous episode) and there was only 120g of sugar left...

I had earmarked this recipe by Elise from Simply Recipes, and had converted the recipe to metric system.

Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
• 40g melted butter
• 200g sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 225g of all-purpose flour

Method

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

Yield: Makes one loaf.

"B1, help me get sugar from downstairs ok?!" I yelled from the kitchen.

"No!!!" equally loud from the bedroom. Argh. Threats of scheidung left him unmoved. Damn, used this trick too much. To think the supermarket was only downstairs. Wtf. That's how lazy the two of us were.

I looked into the fridge. No Honey. Hmm but there are those mini pots of yoghurt that I bought on discount last Tuesday. Only mixed berry flavor left...So here's the adjusted recipe:

Nibblezware-modified Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 ripe bananas
• 40g melted butter
• 120g sugar 
• 60g mixed berry yoghurt (or whatever yoghurt you like)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon banana essence (no sugar in the house, but banana essence? no problem)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 225g of self-raising flour

Method

I preheated the microwave oven's convection function to 170°C. Mistake, that emo bitch likes it 20°C lower. Note to self to use 150°C next time.

<s>Mash bananas with butter. Leave some little bits of chunk.</s>Mistake #2 Forgot to measure out flour and sugar first.

Measure flour and set it aside in the colander (yeah you heard me, I use a colander to sift my flour. Not enough space in the galley so some utensils have to double up duty).

Measure sugar and pour into the bowl. Measure butter and dump into the bowl too. Use the butter knife to butter the sides of the pyrex loaf pan, while moaning my fate. Then peel 5 bananas, slapping away at the fruit flies which have gathered. They were really dumb and easily killed.

Mash bananas into the sugar with butter. Leave some little bits of chunk.

Break an egg in and mix thoroughly. Dump in the banana essence, and baking soda and salt. Sift the flour into the mixture and give the bowl a vicious drub.

Pour the mixture into the pan and set to bake for 1h 10min at 170°C. At first I was relieved that the mixture was rising in the oven after sitting pretty for the first 10 minutes. Then I noticed after the 30 minutes that the top was turning brown yet the inside was wet. So I switched off the convection, and reduced temperature to 150°C for the next 30min. And cover the top with a corningware lid (no choice, the baking dish doesn't come with a cover).

Turned out pretty nice :).