The First

Well, I decided that I wanted to start a blog. I love blogging, but I never have anything to say. But there's one thing that I do all the time and love to do and that is cooking! So I thought to my self why not blog about all the fun things I cook? So I decided to start this blog, of course to be able to blog about cooking you have to actually cook something to talk about in your first post correct? I had some bananas laying around that were at the perfect point of ripeness to make my favorite Banana Bread recipe, so I opened up my excel file found the recipe and got started. Everything went surprising smoothly, considering I have just moved and am living and cooking in a kitchen that is the most disorganized mess I've ever seen. All that will be changing soon enough. I'm also cooking with a new oven which is always a challenge. So I mixed up the batter, and it looked just like it always does. Keep in mind I have made this recipe many many times, it's my favorite! I poured the bread into the loaf pan, the biggest one I have, popped it into the oven and 350 for 1 hour and went about my way making dinner.

After finishing my delicious dinner, Bertolli frozen dinner Chicken, Broccoli, and Rotini in a Garlic Olive Oil sauce, I smelled the kitchen. It didn't exactly smell like banana bread which instantly worried me so I opened up the oven and flipped on the light, and there was my beautiful bread over flowing and dripping into the bottom of the oven and burning. I acted quickly thinking to my self "This is just a minor set back, no big deal" I grabbed a cookie sheet and carefully removed the bubbling pan and placed it on the cookie sheet so the banana bread could finish baking with making any more of a mess in my oven.

This is the banana bread, after my intervention.

And this is the bottom of my oven following my intervention...

now it's just very black and very stuck.

Thank goodness for Easy-Off oven cleaner!

So the hour finished and I eagerly removed the banana bread from the oven... and lets just say it is now in trash as it is not edible at all. I'm really bummed out,and really embarrassed, this is my favorite banana bread recipe and I have never screwed it up before and I have no idea what happened it always makes exactly one beautiful loaf. Here are some of my hypothesis as to why disaster struck:

1- I can no longer properly read a recipe
2-I did something terribly wrong, like added to much of some ingredient
3-I have lost all of my talent in the cooking category (oh goodness, I hope not!)
4-Not everything can be perfect, and the Universe is trying to teach me that right now.

So I know after reading this post you so want the recipe to this disastrous bread, so I'm going to share it! And I promise it really does usually turn out wonderfully moist and beautiful.

"Disastrous Banana Bread"
1 C Sugar

8 Tbs Butter
2 large eggs
3 ripe bananas
1 Tbs Milk
1 tsp cinnamon
1 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 325

Cream the sugar and butter. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
In a small bowl, mash the bananas. Mix in the milk and cinnamon.
In another bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.
Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture. Add the dry ingredients
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan, bake for 1 hour.

**I just realized one mistake that lead to this cooking disaster, I set my oven at 350 when the proper temperature should have been 325... live and learn I guess!**