So we're talking a fresh-out-of-the-oven loaf of banana bread. Still warm.

You cut yourself a nice thick slice of it....what are you putting on it before you take your first bite? Butter? Jelly? Cream cheese? Peanut butter? Nothing at all?

Banana Bread

3 over-ripe bananas, mashed (should make about 1-1/2 cups)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup plain yogurt
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted and allowed to cool
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

1.) Preheat oven to 350° F with the oven rack in the lower-middle position, and grease the bottom of a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2.) Combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt) together in a large bowl.

3.) Mix the wet ingredients (mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, melted butter and vanilla) together in a separate bowl and then fold into the dry ingredients until the batter is just combined and looks thick and chunky. Then fold in the walnut pieces.

4.) Using a rubber spatula, scrape the batter from the bowl into your greased loaf pan, smoothing the surface of the batter with the spatula once it has all been transferred into the loaf pan.

5.) Bake until the loaf is golden brown, about 55 minutes. To check for doneness, insert a toothpick into the center comes. The loaf is done when the toothpick comes out clean. Allow the pan to cool for at least 10 minutes before transferring the loaf to a wire rack.

Straight up for me but I use mix... ?

37 minutes ago, theguru said:

Straight up for me but I use mix... ?

More often than not I've got past-due bananas and I'm not in the mood to go to the store for a mix....but every once in a while I'll think to grab a boxed mix just to have around while I'm at the grocery. In that case I usually just substitute 2-3 over-ripe bananas in place of the water they tell you to use in the directions on the back of the box.

4 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

More often than not I've got past-due bananas and I'm not in the mood to go to the store for a mix....but every once in a while I'll think to grab a boxed mix just to have around while I'm at the grocery. In that case I usually just substitute 2-3 over-ripe bananas in place of the water they tell you to use in the directions on the back of the box.

Same!!

With that said, I prefer cornbread. 

I also like raisin bread.  In fact, I may have a piece toasted with butter when I get home from work.

Good old fashion salted butter

Walnut pieces since my wife won't put it in the bread.

17 hours ago, Tranquility Base said:

Good old fashion salted butter

 

22 hours ago, nkypete said:

I also like raisin bread.  In fact, I may have a piece toasted with butter when I get home from work.

I remember as a kid my parents used to get some kind of raisin bread every once in a while from Remke's bakery. There was a super-thin layer of white icing on the top of it. I'd eat away the edge of each slice where the icing was and then I was done with the slice, lol. I haven't had it since I was probably like 10 years old, so who knows whether or not I'd be a fan at this point in life.

Usually a little bit of butter, but if I want something a little more substantial, I'll throw some crunchy peanut butter and honey on it. 

And now I want banana bread... 

Butter. No frills.  

Nine times out of ten, I'm eating it plain. But I have smeared a thin layer of peanut butter on it before. Then again, I'll put peanut butter on almost anything.

I don't have a go-to recipe, but I usually make a few loaves of banana bread a year. I just happened to catch an episode of America's Test Kitchen earlier today and they were making a double chocolate banana bread that had me feeling some kind of way.