Banana Bread

My first recipe will be for banana bread. It is adapted from my mother's recipe for banana bread. I believe in adding more chocolate. I make this all the time, particularly in the winter. Goes well with tea.

INGREDIENTS
½ cup butter
¾ cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup unsifted whole wheat flour
½ cup unsifted white flour
1 t. baking soda
¾ t. sea salt
1 ¼ cups mashed ripe bananas (2 large or 3 small)
¼ cup buttermilk or yogurt
chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cream butter and sugar until very light and creamy. Beat in egg.
3. Sift together the whole wheat flour, white flour, baking soda, and salt. Combine the bananas and buttermilk, stirring just to mix.
4. Add dry ingredients alternately with banana mix to butter mix, stirring just enough to combine well.
5. Add chocolate chips
6. Turn into oiled 9x5 loaf plan.
7. Bake 50 or 60 minutes or until done. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan and finish cooling on rack.

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The first post will be food. Snark to follow.

Here is my recipe for Birthday Fruit Cobbler. I call it Birthday Fruit Cobbler because I made it once on my birthday. I realize this makes me sound possibly deranged and certainly operating on a lower mental level than I actually think I manage to reach. However, the reason why I bake on birthday is a snark post, and as I have declared, this first post shall be food (when we get better at blogging we may try to combined the two). Anyways, this recipe is loosely adapted from Good Eats.

Birthday Fruit Cobbler

For the Filling:

1 bag frozen raspberries
1 bag frozen blackberries
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon cinammon

For the Crust:

1 cup flour
1 1/2 cup walnut pieces
1 1/2 cup oatmeal (real oatmeal not instant)
2/3 cup sugar
1 stick butter

Heat the oven to 350F

Try to keep the butter cold but its ok to cheat and warm it up in the microwave to make it mushy. Dump everything for the crust in a bowl and mush it with a fork until the butter pieces are little pebbles and everything is integrated.

Put the frozen berries in a baking pan. Mix in all of the other filling ingredients. Dump the filling mixture on top.

Put in the oven for about 40 minutes or long enough that it looks like a baked good but not so long that you loose interest and forget about it and have to serve it to your family with a blacken crust.

Stick a candle in it to remind family members that this is your birthday.