Banana Bread

Source: adapted from The Essential Mormon Cookbook

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons ground flaxseed meal
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup walnuts or chocolate chips (or both!)

Directions:
Mash bananas and set aside.  In a large bowl cream sugar and butter together.  Stir in eggs and mashed bananas.  In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking soda, flaxseed meal and salt.  Add to first mixture and stir together.  Stir in nuts and/or chocolate chips.  Place in two greased, 9x5-inch loaf pans and bake at 350F for 25 minutes.  Reduce heat to 275F and bake for an additional 20 to 25 (it only took mine about 10!) minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.  Makes 2 loaves.

Notes:
You know the drill - you buy a bunch of bananas, and eat two or three of them, but there's always a straggler or two that turn too brown for regular eating.  What else is left to do than make some delicious baked good out of them?  That was my situation yesterday.  And since my sister Megan wasn't around to make it for me, I turned to my trusty Mormon Cookbook and whipped up a batch of bread myself.  I admit I did tweak the recipe a titch - I split the sugar into white and brown and did the same for the flour, plus I took the liberty to add in some flax and chocolate (because I didn't have walnuts and would have definitely loved to use them if I did).  I think the finished product turned out quite nice.  And the heavenly aroma while it was baking?  Oh my!