One trip to Costco. One three day weekend. Seven Banana Bread Recipes. What could possibly go wrong?
…The {Great Banana Bread} Challenge
Banana Bread
How to Brown Bananas for Banana Bread
Under normal circumstances if you want to make banana bread you just wait for the bananas in your fruit bowl to turn as black as possible. It’s perfect, you feel good about not wasting bananas and then you have banana bread.
…Hot Bread Kitchen Banana Bread
It’s Valentine’s Day and today on this day of love, I’m sharing a bit about my favorite nonprofit organization: Hot Bread Kitchen (HBK) and baking the best banana bread recipe for 150 people. It’s a love letter of sorts.
In my professional life I spend a lot of time thinking about nonprofit organizations: oversight, governance, tax reporting and explaining the “public support test” to unsuspecting people. My day to day is fascinating, to me at least! For a very long time, though, I struggled with a “mission” or theme for my own philanthropy. Now before you think that I am some high roller, philanthropy is not just donating money, it’s also donating your time and your talent. In fact, most Americans are philanthropists, they just don’t realize it. {steps down from pulpit}
Healthy Banana Bread Muffins
Ever have browning bananas in the fruit bowl with a plan to make banana bread? This happens to me frequently. Good intentions- I always have them. Even still, a lot of times those bananas end up in the trash. This particular week, my husband was throwing not so subtle shade about what should happen with those bananas. “What could we possibly do with these bananas besides turn them in to compost? If only there was someone in the house with the talent to turn these bananas into anything else?” Did I mention my husband is a lobbyist? Yeah, he does that shit to me too. So after several hypothetical questions posed out loud, I made this healthy banana bread. But instead of my normal recipe, I lightened them up a bit. …
