Banana Bread

I baked today! 

So I didn't have either chocolate chips or nuts. Sad. I used almond milk, and I subbed in 1/2 cup of the flour with whole wheat. I used some chocolate extract as well as vanilla.

Gloppy and ready to bake. 

Ended up being 55 minutes in the oven.

It would have tasted better with some chocolate, or spread with nutella....

It did turn out well. 

Baking Buttermilk bread-

Today I woke up and knew that all I wanted to do was bake and read.

So I tried to make buttermilk honey bread.

I used this recipe - which was literally the first one to come up on a Google search.

http://www.restlesschipotle.com/buttermilk-bread/

First, I couldn't find the yeast.
Well I found the jar in the spice cabinet - expired and open and unrefrigerated. Thought about using it anyway - but then I found the new and sealed and unexpired jar hiding in the pantry. Yay!

So I threw out the foamy experiment of old yeast and started fresh.

Next I needed to add buttermilk. Our powdered buttermilk had gone bad.
I threw it away.
I considered giving up.
I looked up substitutes for buttermilk.
You can do it, apparently, by adding a little white vinegar to normal milk.
Weird.

So I made bread.

I burned the tops a bit - but I like it that way.

Yum.