Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

A week ago, Pastor Gregg brought his wife's banana bread into his sermon. Well apparently, EVERYONE was asking for the recipe. They posted it on their facebook account and sent out an email with the recipe. I was bored this past Saturday and actually had all of the ingredients on hand so I decided to make it. It is delish! I have tried several banana bread recipes before and have failed at all of them, but this one is a keeper! It is absolutely not on my diet though! Only thing I changed about the recipe is that I did chop up some walnuts and add those in it. I do not know how much because I did not measure them.

CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA BREAD

1 ¼ cups sugar

1 stick butter, softened

2 eggs

3 medium sized ripe bananas

½ cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom of bundt pan with Crisco shortening and dust with flour. Mix sugar and butter in large bowl. Stir in eggs until well blended. Add bananas, buttermilk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Mix in remaining ingredients except chocolate chips just until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into pan. Bake about 45 minutes until top is light brown and wooden pick comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Slice and spread with butter. Serve warm with a glass of cold milk. Enjoy!

Speaking of my diet, I have being very lenient this summer I guess you could say. Somehow, I have only gained one pound back. The end of June and most of July was basically a free for all! I was on vacation and also spent a lot of time in Louisiana with a lot of extended family in town. I am now back in Houston and I am back on track for the most part. I think that is the most important part- that you do allow yourself to indulge every now and then but must get right back on it.

I have had to scale my running back due to knee problems. That is a whole other post for another day! Hope everyone is having a great summer!