I’m one of those people you could describe in one word.
People tell me this all the time.
One word.
Four letters.
Lazy.
Oh, I’m sorry, were you expecting me to say love?
Psssh, I wish.
It’s embarrassing how lazy I really am. Some of the things I do every day kind of confirm my laziness.
- I don’t wait for the oven to preheat, I just stick the pan in and increase cooking time
- Even if I know the matching sock is a little bit deeper in my drawer, I grab mix match socks because I’m too lazy to move aside the other socks
- I roll across my entire room (and the kitchen sometimes) in my desk chair because I don’t want to walk
- I eat over the sink so I don’t have to use a plate
- I wear sweatpants and sweatshirts EVERY day because I don’t want anything I have to zip or button
- I don’t measure dry ingredients by using measuring spoons because I don’t want to wash them–therefore I guess
- I’ve mastered the art of throwing every object close to me at the light switch so I don’t have to get out of bed
…wait, isn’t this post about banana bread?
Oh, um…awkward. I’m over here rambling about lazy things I do because I’M TOO LAZY TO START THE POST ABOUT BANANA BREAD I felt the need to share these things with you.
But now that you know about the lazy person I am, let’s just talk about food.
I have to tell you, for almost ten years I thought it was completely normal to fold chocolate chips into the batter of banana bread, but guess what? It’s not a staple in most people’s banana bread.
That seems crazy to me, chocolate is a must in any recipe if you can sneak it in.
*throws chocolate chips at wandering passerbiers*
I’ve shared honey banana bread with you once, and that was simply scrumptious. However, my favourite, and I mean favourite banana bread of all time has been locked away in the depths of my overflowing recipe book. I had to wait to share the secret recipe with you because I lost the recipe temporarily in the midst of the clutter wanted to make sure I had everything perfected. I think this specific recipe is my favorite version of banana bread because of the crunchy top, gooey center, and melting chocolate chips sprinkled along every bite.
- 1¾ c. all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- ¾ tsp. salt
- 3 Tbsp. ground flax seed +
- 9 Tbsp. warm water
- 1½ c. sugar
- ¾ c. olive oil
- 1 c. packed, mashed banana
- ⅓ c. chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Combine dry ingredients, and mix well. In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients and mix into dry.
- Pour into a greased loaf pan and cook 60-70 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, cover the top of the loaf with foil and reduce the heat to 300.
- Let it cook slowly for the last 30 minutes then when it’s done, flip onto a wire cooling rack and enjoy!
Much Love,
Katherine Marie
My Bible Verse For Today:
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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