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It's been so long since I've gotten to spend some quality time with myself in the kitchen. I make salads for dinner, and crepes for breakfast, but I've been really itching for some baking time.

So, with my one day off, I decided to sleep all the way in to 7 (AM), and make banana bread. Good, old fashioned, full sugar, white flour, banana bread.

Usually I try to keep it healthy. Don't want to pack on the L-B's. But with banana bread, I just don't think it tastes the same without a liberal portion of sugar and all the gluten of white flour.

And besides... I wasn't making this for me. It's for my neighbor, who's watching the cat while we're gone next week. :)

Banana Bread

• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 2/3 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream the butter and sugar.

Mix in the eggs, followed by the bananas and water.

In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients.

Stir the dry ingredients into the wet.

Pour into a greased and floured bread pan.

For a 9" pan, bake 50-60 minutes, or for an 8" pan bake up to 1 hr 30 min.

Bread is perfecto when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.