A Family Favorite

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I'm sitting at the breakfast table with the kids this morning and enjoying some wonderful banana bread. And I figured while I'm enjoying it, I might let you in on it too. Would you like a slice?

The kids keep asking for more, so I'm pretty sure that it's tasty (especially since I just had my third slice too). Heated a little bit. Soft butter spread on top. YUM!! Would you like my recipe? Ok, I'll share! But you can also check it out Our Favorite Family Recipes and print it off.

Banana Bread

makes 2 loaves

Blend until creamy:
⅔ C shortening

⅓ C honey

⅔ C sucanat

1½ tsp grated lemon rind

Beat in:
3 - 4 eggs

4 or 5 ripe bananas

Sift in:
1 tsp salt

5 tsp baking powder

3½ C whole wheat pastry flour

Stir in:
6 oz. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

Add sifted ingredients to sugar mixture. Beat until smooth.

Stir in:

6 oz. (1/2 bag) of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional - but oh, so lovely)

Spread into 2 greased bread pans and bake 45-55 minutes or until done. Cool before slicing.

***You can use 1 1/3 cups total of white sugar and eliminate both the honey and sucanat. Also, white flour works instead of the whole wheat pastry flour.

This reminded me of something that I was going to tell you all about (thanks to Crystal for the heads up on this site!). It's a recipe book you can make for yourself with your own favorite recipes, and right now you can get $10 off if you follow this link (or use the coupon code COOKTEN). The website is called Tastebook.com and you can upload 100 of your favorite recipes with (or without) pictures - or you can pick and choose recipes from their huge stash from Epicurious, etc...

You don't have to do all 100 at the same time. You can start with 20 and then they will credit your account for the other 80 which you can add later (or you can do 5, and have 95 later, etc...). Since the cookbook is a binder you can add and remove recipes as you like. I've been working on mine (ok, I have 2 recipes uploaded) and I'm really beginning to like this idea! We have certain recipes that we really enjoy as a family and it would be nice to have them all in one place. You know, those meatballs that Rick's mom makes, the brownie recipe my friend Alison gave me years ago....

So click on and check it out. I'm working on it slowly but steadily and hope to pull something together before the $10 off special runs out. :)