Banana Bread recipe

So Suzi's challenge this week is to try a new recipe and I'll probably try at least two. I had three bananas that were in sore need of baking so I pulled out the cute little Cook This, Not That cookbook. Naturally, the recipe required 4 bananas. One quick call to Mrs. Obvious, otherwise known as my  BFF Mandy, and I realized doh - use a quarter cup of applesauce to make up for the missing nanner.  Because of family preferences I also varied from the recipe in that  I left out the walnuts and replaced cinnamon with nutmeg.  Here is the original recipe:

4 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup Greek-style yogurt
4 Tbsp melted butter
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup toasted walnuts, coarsely chopped
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350ºF and butter a 9 X 5 loaf pan

Combine bananas, yogurt, buter, eggs, and vanilla in large mixing boal, stirring until blended. In separate bowl, combine together all remaining inggredients.  Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture and stir until fully incorporated.

Scrape bater into prepared pan. Bake on a low oven rack for about 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 5 minutes and remove from pan.

The best news is that the whole loaf counts as 4 servings. 350 calories 12 g fat each.

Just out of the oven, perfect mid-morning snack. It is super-delicious!  I think we may make some more using all applesauce and cinnamon as soon as this is gone. Which shouldn't take long.

Now you'll see why I'm not a professional photographer.

Sunday Funday

ok, that was sarcasm.

Looks like a big snowstorm heading our way. Most everyone's way really. Maybe not Sue who is winding down summer in Oz, but everyone else.

I picked up Cook This, Not That over the weekend. I'm excited about some of the breakfast recipes. I have to make a shopping list and hope we're not snowed in before I get to the store.

We have this super cool place called The 577 Foundation in our little burb. Among many other very cool things you can recycle books there and get new ones. I hit them up for a coupla cookbooks Friday while my daughter was in a class. Then that night we were invited to a "book swap". Why have I never ever thought of these before?  All the kids and parents who wanted to participate brought books to give away and got to take some as well. I am a self-confessed book whore. And if I can get one free. All the better. Mandy will be shocked - I gave up my Jodi Picoult collection (ok most of it) today for the cause. Oh yeah - and the books that aren't picked up, the hostess dontates to the 577 Foundation so it's all good. If I want them back I know where to find them.

Oh my gosh, facebook is FUNNY tonight. Hard to stay in a bad mood with friends who are as freaky weird crazy creative as mine. I look forward to waking up to more craziness like that in the morning  before I hit the gym, then do my wed volunteering early because of the storm, then shop all before kiddo gets off the bus. Big day!

Planning ahead for Thanksgiving

I think I just found my dessert to make for Thanksgiving dinner next month.  Now all I have to do is triple the recipe and tell myself to stop after my one serving.

Does anybody else have any lower calorie versions of Thanksgiving favorites to share? 

Guess I'm going to have to resort to low-cal whipped cream. They just look so NEKKED w/o it!