Ophelia's Easy Banana BreadLast month, Tina from Mommy's Kitchen shared this wonderful, tasty and easy to prepare recipe with us. I immediately liked it because of how simple the recipe was to prepare. I really like Tina's blog. She prepares the style of food that I consider "comfort" food and my family enjoys. We're not fussy eaters. No architecturally designed food dishes for us. And, we love Banana Bread.
My Mom made the best banana bread ever. No recipe, no instructions. Butter, flour, vanilla, sugar, eggs, bananas, milk, and some baking soda. If you wanted to learn her recipe, you stood watch and took notes.
So, when Tina posted this recipe, I knew I had to try it. Oh my, it was good. Delicious and moist. I think if you try the recipe you'll see for yourself. Way to go Tina. Thank you neighbor!
Ophelia's Banana Bread
1 Package Yellow Cake Mix (Any Brand)
1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Bananas, Mashed
2 Eggs Beaten
½ Cup Milk
½ Cup Chopped Walnuts or Pecans
Add dry cake mix to a large bowl. Add eggs, oil and milk. Blend on low with mixer then add bananas. Pour into a greased large loaf pan or two small loaf pans. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Let cool and slice. If the banana bread starts too brown to fast just tent with foil and continue baking.
And that's it. How simple is that? I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as we did.
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Gloria over at Cookbook Cuisine sent me a "six random things about me" -meme that I wasn't really sure I wanted to take part in. You see, I'm normally a shy and private person. So telling things about myself is really difficult. But, what the heck. If you can't open up to family, like my foodie buddies, who can you open up with?
Rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
So six random things about me are:
1. I'm short, my hair is thinning and I'm overweight by 10 pounds.
2. I love experimenting in the kitchen, but, I always get back to basics: CHOCOLATE.
3. Celebrating my first Valentine's Day with Bob after we got married, my gift to him was a collection of poetry that I wrote especially for him that is rated XXX. He still has the book. It's hidden in his underwear drawer (20 years later).
4. I love Vampire stories. I was devastated when Anne Rice stopped the Vampire Chronicles.
5. I believe in UFO's. I've seen them. Cross my heart. I almost totaled my car following one.
6. Having become part of the foodie blogroll and meeting so many fine people has brought a great joy to my life and filled a void only another writer can understand.
And there you go. That's who I am. Love you guys. I will now target the next 6 unsuspecting foodies. They are:
1. Ben from What's Cooking
2. Prudence, Glass Slipper Cakery
3. Happy Cook, My KitchenTreasures
4. Lori, The Recipe Girl
5. Tina, Mommy's Kitchen
6. Reeni, Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice
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Joke for today:
A grade school teacher asked her students to use the word "Fascinate" in a sentence. Maria put up her hand and said "My family went to my abuelitos farm and we all saw his pet cabrito. "It was fascinating."
The teacher said "That was good but i wanted you to use the word "Fascinate not Fascinating."
Enriqueta shyly raised her hand and said "My family went to the zoo and we all saw Lions. "I was fascinated."
The teacher said "Well, that was good Enriqueta but I wanted you to use the word "Fascinate."
Pepito raised his hand.The teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Pepito before. She finally decided there was no way Pepito could damage the word "Fascinate" so she called on him.
Pepito said "My sister has a sweater with ten buttons,but her chichis are so big she can only fasten eight! ;)
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
So six random things about me are:
1. I'm short, my hair is thinning and I'm overweight by 10 pounds.
2. I love experimenting in the kitchen, but, I always get back to basics: CHOCOLATE.
3. Celebrating my first Valentine's Day with Bob after we got married, my gift to him was a collection of poetry that I wrote especially for him that is rated XXX. He still has the book. It's hidden in his underwear drawer (20 years later).
4. I love Vampire stories. I was devastated when Anne Rice stopped the Vampire Chronicles.
5. I believe in UFO's. I've seen them. Cross my heart. I almost totaled my car following one.
6. Having become part of the foodie blogroll and meeting so many fine people has brought a great joy to my life and filled a void only another writer can understand.
And there you go. That's who I am. Love you guys. I will now target the next 6 unsuspecting foodies. They are:
1. Ben from What's Cooking
2. Prudence, Glass Slipper Cakery
3. Happy Cook, My KitchenTreasures
4. Lori, The Recipe Girl
5. Tina, Mommy's Kitchen
6. Reeni, Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice
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Check out my chocolate blog, Mexican Chocolate Lore and More for a fabulous FREE chocolate offer!
*************************************
Joke for today:
A grade school teacher asked her students to use the word "Fascinate" in a sentence. Maria put up her hand and said "My family went to my abuelitos farm and we all saw his pet cabrito. "It was fascinating."
The teacher said "That was good but i wanted you to use the word "Fascinate not Fascinating."
Enriqueta shyly raised her hand and said "My family went to the zoo and we all saw Lions. "I was fascinated."
The teacher said "Well, that was good Enriqueta but I wanted you to use the word "Fascinate."
Pepito raised his hand.The teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Pepito before. She finally decided there was no way Pepito could damage the word "Fascinate" so she called on him.
Pepito said "My sister has a sweater with ten buttons,but her chichis are so big she can only fasten eight! ;)
