The Capsule Pantry: No-Rise Banana Bread

The return of everyone's favorite lockdown treat (minus the lockdown)

This morning’s breakfast - banana bread, creme fraiche, lemon zest and a good old cup of British tea

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There are two ways to quickly ripen bananas - in the microwave and the lesser known 37,000 feet method.

Every single time I fly, I take a banana with me and every single time, I forget to eat it. The Haribo I bought at the airport is always much more tempting.

There is something about the altitude that screws with bananas. They go up there looking great and arrive looking worse than me after an airport session on the Sangria.

My husband never eats his either, thus I had two very ripe bananas on my hands this week that I didn’t want to throw away.

Enter everyone’s favorite lockdown recipe - banana bread.

I don’t want to give you flashbacks to 2020, but banana bread is still one of my go-to’s (and it was pre-Covid too). They’re all chewy and last for days and there are so many ways to use up the leftovers. Banana bread is a shoo-in for the Simple and Straightforward recipe index.

This one is made without a leavening agent because I don’t travel with baking soda and didn’t want to buy it for one recipe (that wouldn’t be very S+S of me). It turned out freaking great.

Here’s the recipe, plus variations and 3 ways to use up what’s leftover.