Banana Nut Bread

Banana nut bread is a classic comfort food. It also happens to be a super easy recipe and very forgiving of mistakes and creative flairs. And mistakes that you call a creative flair later so people won't know that they weren't on purpose.

First step, is whisking dry ingredients together. You could just stir them, but with all the different flours the whisk is more thorough. Also, lots more fun to make patterns with.

Then you must hunt down properly ripe bananas. Green bananas are gross and unacceptable for the task.

Beautiful brown spots! If your bananas do not look like a giraffe, they are unworthy of being baked into greatness.

Personally, I like to mash the bananas and butter together instead of pulling out a mixer to deal with the butter later. The mashing is still easy, and you don't have to wash the beaters. So it's a win-win all around.

Sturdy mashers are very important. Accept no flimsy imitations.

While we're mashing anyway, might as well do the other liquid ingredients too.

The yolks can try to escape sometimes by sliding between the bends, but they can be easily trapped against the side.

I don't have a picture of what that looks like all mashed together nicely. Somebody stole my phone for selfies.

I'm not naming names or pointing fingers. But I think you can guess who it was.

Then pour the liquid into the dry and mix them all up. The whisk legitimately helps here to break up all the clumps. It will still look slightly lumpy even when full combined. And that is fine as long as the lumps don't break apart into dry flour when you poke them.