Banana Bread

Made some pretty fabulous banana bread yesterday to an extremely modified recipe. We had these really ripe bananas, see, and needed to bake to heat the house, and didn't have any brown sugar, or a lemon, or many eggs or anything.

Banana Bread:

3.5 c whole wheat pastry flour
5 t baking powder
1 t salt
Sift together and set aside

1 c of white sugar
drizzle (approx. 1-2 T) of blackstrap molasses
5/6 c unsalted butter (this is one 1/4 c stick plus 1/3 c from another stick)
Finely-grated zest from one orange
Mix until creamy; then beat in:
5 medium-sized bananas
1 egg
Juice from that same orange

Slowly add flour mixture to liquids. Beat in as many toasted pecans as you like. Bake at 350* in bread tins (approx. 1 hour) or in baking tins (approx. 40 min).

Final product is very banana and orangey, and is very good when hot.

Fandom phrases I hate to hear:

"It's only a TV show" and "you should just suspend your disbelief."

These are typically used to keep people from discussing GIANT FLAMING PLOT HOLES and trying to figure out any way for things to make sense or to keep people from examining totally out of character behavior. When the only reason I can come up with for characters behaving in a certain way is "because the writers needed them to," that makes the writing what we here call "crappy."

( Minor spoilers for Buffy, Babylon 5, and so on follow. )