Banana Bread

One of my all time favorite foods that my father would make for me is banana bread. He always made this as a treat for the family once a month. I would wake up in the morning to the smell of delightfulness in the air.

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

                                             

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Guinness Treats

On my mother's side of the family, everybody is Irish. So most foods are made like the Irish. My aunt always makes Guinness Brownies. They are the best treats that anyone brings to my grandmother's house. Everybody eats them and the brownies will disappear within minutes. She gave me her recipe and now I will share it with you.

INGREDIENTS:

½ cup Guinness stout
12 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 cup unsalted butter
1½ cup granulated sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt

STEPS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x9-inch square baking pan, then line with parchment paper.

2. Bring the Guinness to a boil over medium-high heat in a small saucepan. Boil until reduced to ¼ cup, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.

3. Place the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and stir occasionally until completely melted and smooth. Remove from the heat and set aside.

4. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until thoroughly combined and pale yellow in color. Gradually whisk in the melted chocolate mixture, then the reduced Guinness. Add the flour and salt and fold into the batter with a rubber spatula until no streaks of flour remain.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and place the pan on a wire rack; cool completely before cutting and serving. The brownies should be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

Healthy Lunch

I usually try to eat healthy food when it comes to lunch. So, I will cook up some grilled chicken and have that for most of my meals. But when it comes to school lunch, I never buy food, I bring in a container of chicken and yellow rice.

The Ingredients:

Chicken(up to you how much you cook)

Yellow rice

How to:

Grill the chicken on a grill and then cut up.

Boils the yellow rice for 25 minutes then mix with the chicken and either eat then or put away and a plastic container for another time.