I just bit into a nasty lump of baking soda in my banana bread. Ask me

[GreenPartyVoter]

anything except why I was too lazy to use my sifter. *lol*

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[NJ_Lib]

1. You baked a fresh loaf of bread...

Darling, that is NOT lazy! :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thanks! It's the only way to get fruit into my young un's. :^D

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[skygazer]

2. Hey, I'm making banana bread today, too

Thanks for reminding me about the sifter! :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yes. Do NOT! forget the sifter. *ugh, pthhh, tooey!* I am talking

marble-sized lumps of baking soda here! *lol*

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[FuzzySlippers]

31. There's really no need to bother

with the sifter. Just whisk the dry ingredients together. Much easier.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Well, I gave it a go with a dinner fork. Clearly not effective. *l*

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[meti57b]

3. May we have your recipe??

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Okey-doke. :^) You may want to fiddle with it some more, but this one is

edible. *g*


Preheat the oven to 350

Blend together:

4 medium mashed bananas
1/2 c molasses
1 1/2 c sugar
3 eggs
1 c unsweetened applesauce
1 melted stick of oleo
1/4 c light olive oil
2 tsp vanilla

SIFT *lol* together and add to wet mixture:

2 c white flour
2 c wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder

Fold in nuts and chocolate chips if desired. (Me I usually don't have them on hand, so just make due with natural peanut butter on a slice after the fact. :P )

I realize most folks use bread pans, but I actually use a large roasting pan and make snack cake on account of my oven is whacked out and doesn't like to cook the middle of very thick food. *l* Anyway, just bake until the sides pull away, the top is brown and a fork comes out clean. (Better to overcook than undercook, in which case you will have banana-custard-wheat-bread-pudding.)

Let me know if this actually works in functional ovens? :hi:

~Jen

[meti57b]

34. thank you very much!!! Is it okay to use butter instead of oleo??

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. I would think so. :^)

[meti57b]

37. thank you again!!

[Hubert Flottz]

6. How's Ralph's deal in NH going?

Any news?

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I don't know, but I am actually the last person to ask. All my info

I glean from the 'net, and DU in particular. *l*

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[Hubert Flottz]

13. I didn't mean any harm!

Sorry!

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. No, harm done at all hon! Wish I _was_ your go-to-gal for info

but I haven't got a clue how to get people to tell me stuff. *g*

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[northzax]

7. Is there some reason you don't have a decent stand mixer?

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yes. I don't cook enough to be able to justify the little 3 speed

hand one I have now.

In fact, when I make yeast bread I cheat and let the bread machine do the mixing. It's useless for baking in these days, but still turns out a nice ball of dough. :)

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[northzax]

11. sorry, I cannot accept that excuse

get thee to your local Williams-Sonoma or Sur la Table and purchase three a decent mixer. now.

or at least a decent bread machine, sheesh. How can you expect to make homemade things without all the latest technology? It's not hommeade unless machines do all the work!

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Agreed! I can't stand the feel of dough on my skin. Bad enough I have

to move the focaccia dough from the machine to the pan.

(Although eating it later sure makes up for it! *dreamy sigh*

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[northzax]

17. and since we're on the subject

doesn't Cook get annoyed when you screw around in the kitchen? or do you have a 'hobby' one in the master suite?

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. *lol* Oh no, I am no rich gal with a cook. I am a poor one who

can't be bothered to do more than run a can opener around the top of some Chef Boy-Ardee most days. Not so much because I dislike cooking so much as cleaning up afterward. No dishwasher at this house but me.

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[NJ_Lib]

12. Help me "stick-it" to Neiman Marcus...

I received it this morning... At the delicious chance it could be true, here you go... Ahhh, that felt good... :)

THIS IS A TRUE STORY

My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Café in Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the Neiman-Marcus cookie."

It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not, but you can buy the recipe."

Well, I asked how much, and she responded; "Only two fifty-it's a great deal!" I agreed to that, and told her to just add it to my tab.

Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge was $285.00!

I looked again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As Iglanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe-$250.00."

That was outrageous!

I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was "two fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollar s" by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.

Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money because, according to them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem.

You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money at this point."

I explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes, which govern fraud in the
state of Texas.

I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud.

I was basically told, "Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money back."

I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250, and & gt; now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun."

I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a $250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus for free.

She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, perhaps you should have thought
of that before you ripped me off!" and slammed down the phone.

So here it is! Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.

I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make another penny off of this recipe!

NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES
Note - Recipe may be halved
2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups fl our
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1 (8 oz.) Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
Cream the butter and both sugars.
Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda.
Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts.
Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC! Have fun!!! This is not a

[Lavender Brown]

15. that was one of the first e-mail forwards I ever got

years ago. :)

[NJ_Lib]

18. Man, I'm so naive...

Sorry... Should I take it down?

[Lavender Brown]

21. No...

I'm sure they're still good cookies... it may even be true, what do I know? :hi:

[northzax]

22. no, keep it up

but remember that it is an urban legend. OK, it's technically a total lie.

[NJ_Lib]

24. I should call Neiman's...

Ask if it's true...

It's probably a bad joke for them... Like "Is your fridge running" type of thing... They'll probably hang up on me...

[northzax]

26. whilst i have no love for the good people at Needless Markup

this is an old wives' tale...

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

[NJ_Lib]

29. 50 years?

Wow... I feel so foolish... One day, I'll learn...

Thanks for the link!

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. Nah, it's still a nice double recipe for cookies.. and to be honest

I had never thought of shaving a bar of chocolate into the dough before. :)

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[JudyM]

19. is this recipe really so fantastic? Looks kind of ordinary.

[NJ_Lib]

23. I've been had...

Again...

[JudyM]

30. Did you make it, though? Was it any good?

I was just guessing by looking over the recipe -- I'm no expert.

[JudyM]

20. I made banana bread 2 days ago. Yum. With cardamom.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Hmmm Never thought about adding cardamom to it before!

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[JudyM]

32. Pretty good. The other interesting ingredient was rum-soaked raisins

The recipe said you could use apple cider in place of the rum.
2/3 c raisins or currants and 1/3 c dark rum or cider. Also 1/2 c chopped walnuts and 1tsp cardamom. Next time I'm going to add a little vanilla and cinnamon.

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. Rum and apple cider don't sound like interchangable ingredients *l*

But I will take your word for it. Me, I'd for the rum. :P

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