Banana Bread

What do you do with those bananas you can't bring yourself to eat or throw out? You make Banana Bread, of course! Don't have the time or patience? Give this recipe a try.

I made this bread during the spring semester and brought it to my morning class. We had no left-overs!

Banana Bread

What you need:

1 3/4 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/3 cup butter

2/3 cup sugar

2 eggs, beaten

2 tablespoons corn syrup

3 ripe bananas

nuts or raisins to add

What you do:

Grease and flour a Crock-Pot. For this recipe I used a $3 Crock we found at the Salvation army. It is a 3.5 quart Crock-Pot with a removable insert (*See above).

Combine the flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. Set aside.

Cream the butter, sugar, eggs, corn syrup (if you have it), and bananas until smooth. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the mixture. I used the Kitchen Aid mixer for this. At last, add nuts or raisins.

Dump into the Crock-Pot, cover, and cook on high for 1.5 to 2 hours. If yo have a larger Crock-Pot, you will need to decrease the cooking time.

Haroseth Jew

Lord, I miss bagels. After attempting to survive on Lender’s Bagels from the frozen food section of the grocery store for the past year, we had to try our hand at home-made bagels. Orion did most of the work on these. While I didn’t work very hard to make these bagels, I did work very hard to make them disappear. These are Real Honest Jewish Purist Bagels.

Well, in missing bagels, I began to think about Judaism. I believe this September boasts three holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. Well, my thoughts on Judaism led from Holidays back to food! And from there I was left to contemplate my Jewish roots.

What kind of Jew are you? After completing a twenty question quiz at Beliefnet I discovered what I already knew- I’m a Haroseth Jew! Using Jewish food as an analogy this quick quiz will help you to define your Jewish identity, or lack there of. From “blueberry bagel” to “lukshen kugel” (Personally, I prefer a nice potato kugel!), discover your Jewish identity. This is what they said about me:

“Like this Passover fruit and nut mixture, your Jewish identity can take any number of forms, each blending tradition and innovation. Your cultural and ethnic ties to Judaism are stronger than your religious ones.”

If you still have time on your hands, test your understanding of Yiddish. Visit Bubby and take her Yiddish Quiz! This is a tough one. It'll kick your tuchas (or tokhes)! I only scored a 70% and I think that had more to do with my test taking skills. There were words I’d never heard or read before; I wasn’t even going to try to pronounce them! Give it a try!

Tell me! What kind of Jew are you and how’s your Yiddish?