How to Make Healthy and Easy Banana Bread and Other Neat Tips.

I have always loved to make banana bread. It seems like I often end up with over ripe bananas. I would inevitably have fruit flies which are notoriously difficult to deal with. Now I have found I can just mash the bananas and put them in the freezer.

Now how to get rid of the fruit flies? Try putting a little vinegar and a tiny piece of banana in a jar. Cover the jar with plastic wrap. punch a several holes in the plastic and leave the jar in an obvious place for your little visitors. We did that one summer and had to release the fruit flies several times a day!!!! It was a particularly hot summer as you can imagine to have that many fruit flies, not to mention we love all the summer fruits.

-1 cup unbleached baking flour

-3/4 cup whole wheat flour

-1/4 cup wheat germ or ground flax seed optional

-1tsp baking soda or 2 tsp baking powder

- 1/4 tsp salt

-1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

- 1/2 cup butter of butter make with yogurt and or olive oil ( can substitute applesauce)

- 2 eggs

-4 smash ripe bananas or 11/2 cups

3/4 cup sugar. or honey or any other sugar substitute you want. You can also try less sugar and add honey until batter is as sweet as you want. Honey is a Super food.

Another tasty thing to do is mix 1/2 brown sugar with the regular sugar to give bread a more homey taste

If you want to save time use one bowl and mix all wet ingredients first. Whisk eggs first . Add other wet ingredients. Next mix in sugar. Now you need to add flours and wheat germ and spices. Some people like a little cinnamon in their banana bread. Mix all together and add walnuts or pecans if desired.

Blueberries are another nice addition.

Prepare 1 or 2 loaf pans with shortening or spray on baking spray. Pour mixture into loaf pans and bake at 325 -350 for 1 to 1 hr- 25 minutes. You want a knife to come out clean . Remember not to let your bread get overdone. The heat will keep it cooking for a few minutes. Serve hot or cool .

I like to make up a mix up some cream cheese with cinnamon sugar and vanilla. It is awesome on banana bread.

There are some easy tips which I recently learned. I am forever having banana's getting too ripe and producing fruit flies, especially in the summer months. Now I peel the banana's that are too ripe to enjoy and put them in a tupperware container or ziplock bag. I put it in the freezer and the next time I want to make banana bread I pull it out of the freezer and am ready to go.

One day my husband picked up some self rising flour by mistake. I just deleted the salt and baking soda and my bread did great. It is a little saltier so I do prefer regular bread, whole wheat or plain flour. I wonder how it would taste with graham flour?

I have a baking pan with four seperate small bread trays. I like to use these to make for friends and neighbors. You can also wrap these up well in plastic wrap and freeze for several months.

Did you know you could find out if an egg is good or not by seeing if it floats. Put it in a glass of cool water bigger than the egg. If it is a floater. Throw it out!!!!