Waste Not Your Stinky, Brown Bananas

Don't throw those stinky, brown, rotting bananas away! Use them!

Problem: Stinky, brown bananas... such an eyesore and such a waste!

Solution: Waste not, friends! Make banana bread.

Many people don't realize that stinky, brown bananas are truly the key to making delicious, mouth-watering banana bread. Fresh bananas simply won't do. They just won't.

Here's a recipe for banana bread that I found, calling for 3 or 4 ripe (aka: stinky, brown) smashed bananas!

Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients
3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
1/3 cup melted butter
1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

Method
No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

***Tip: Don't want to leave them sitting around your kitchen, or just not ready when your bananas are finally stinky, brown? Simply freeze them! I have a whole shelf of frozen bananas in my freezer, just waiting to be turned into banana treats!