Let Them Eat Butterscotch Banana Bread!

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
When life gives you cherries, you find a bowl for them.
(Right , Gil, cuz “Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh, aha! Laugh and love, Live and laugh, Laugh and love, Live and laugh at it all!)
And, when life gives you blackened soon-to-be rotting bananas, you make butterscotch banana bread!
This is the fruit cycle of life, or it is in my off-beat corner of the world. :-)

Exhibit A: Butterscotch Banana Bread



Exhibit B: Butterscotch Banana Bread Recipe



And, do you know how you can tell a good recipe from a bad one?
A good recipe is on a card that is torn, bent, soiled, and has notes on it, not unlike this one, where I call myself "Stupid" for not getting the butter measurement correct once upon a baking time.
Note: All good bakers must chastise themselves once in a while...and spend some time behind bars; why, ask my good friend, Martha Stewart, if you're in doubt. :-)

1¾ cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt --> This comprises the “flour mix”.

1 cup mashed banana
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup melted butter --> This comprises the “liquid mix”.

¼ cup milk --> This comprises the “moo juice mix”.

And this is how ya put it all together.

Ready?
Are you sure?
Really?
Right now?
Wanna do this later?
Shouldn't I find a job before I help you bake?
No?
Let's bake now?
The butterscotch banana bread anticipation is SO killing you like it's killing me?!
K, then...away we go!

Blend flour mixture with ¼ cup moo juice mix and liquid mix.
Stir in chopped nuts* and a 6oz. package of butterscotch morsels.
Pour into greased loaf pan.
Sprinkle top with nuts.**
Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.
Cool ½ hour before removing from pan.

*I do not add nuts, and I would recommend that you don’t either.
Nuts are for bolts and not for makin’ butterscotch banana bread!

** What did I say about the nuts again?
Nuts are for squirrels, k?! :-)

Anyway, if you know someone who has made you banana bread lately, and it is not up to par, please pass along this recipe to them.
AND, if they happen to be hiring, please give them my resume as well. :-)