If you are buried up to your eyeballs in school work and are freaking out becuase you can’t imagine how there could ever be enough hours in the day to get all the work done that needs to be done, a good thing to do is BAKE something. I haven’t conducted an entirely empirical study, but I know this is something that many people do when studying. There is something relaxing about baking that really calms you down, and then of course you get to eat the results, and we all know that sugar is essential for productive studying.

So, I made this banana bread on the weekend, and it was so good. There is something very lovely about taking something undesirable like brown bananas and turning them into something tasty. And I am convinced that ginger makes anything that is already good extra amazing. Like this…..

Banana Bread with Ginger

1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup plain yogurt
3 ripe bananas
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1 to 2 Tbsp grated fresh ginger

Cream together butter and sugar. Add yogurt and mashed bananas. Combine all dry ingredients in a seperate bowl and add to the wet mixture. Mix in spices and ginger. Bake at 350 for about one hour.