Banana Bread

As you can see from Jim's post, we were on vacation, which explains why after not eating much meat for weeks and then having tuna for dinner, bacon and eggs for breakfast, a cheeseburger for lunch and then KFC for dinner, I was SICK. I was hunched over my stomach for hours and even felt a little sick the following morning. Enough said, I had a vegan dinner last night. I've always made fun of those crazy vegans, but I'm really coming around!
On to what this post is really about: banana bread. I had 4 brown bananas on my table when we came home from said vacation, so I decided to make banana bread and use the non-dairy subs just to see how it turned out. That's not my bread there, but they all look the same, right? It was really good, pretty much just as good as any banana bread you've all eaten a million times, nothing too different. I was just excited that my substitutions didn't change it one bit.

1 cube Earth Balance butter sub.
1 1/2 c flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
4 ripe bananas
3/4 c sugar
2 large eggs + one yolk (who knows why?)
1 t. vanilla
1/4 c Tofutti sour cream sub.

Bake: 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

I admit, I still don't love soy milk, or any other milk substitute, but I'm doing it. But as to the butter, I think this Earth's Balance stuff is yummy, I have both the spread and the cube version and it tastes great. I don't miss butter a bit. The Tofutti sour cream is pretty good, but you can tell it's not the real thing if you are paying attention. However, I need to say that Tofutti makes a killer cream cheese (among a string of other products). I dream of clam dip...I'll never feel guilty again for eating the whole bowl!

*One more thing, since it took coming back to this three or four times to finish, I had a tasty treat that I'll share as well. Pita bread (the thick soft kind that doesn't make pockets) heated in the oven on bake, rip it in half, then spread hummus on both pieces. Add some black beans, sliced tomato & mixed greens and you have your tasty little sandwich. Just arugula would have made it really good, or it could have been beefed up for a full meal.