easy as fuck banana bread

Baking is difficult for many people. However, the only thing really stopping most people from being successful is a lack of understanding that baking is all about timing and adding flavor. Breads are the easiest things to not fuck up, so lets start there.

The Ingredients:
- 2 large, over ripe bananas

- 2 cups flour

- 1 tsp baking soda

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 1 tsp vanilla extract

- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice (optional, or substitute 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp ground cloves for the pumpkin pie spice)

- 1/2 cup softened butter

- 3/4 cup brown sugar

- 2 eggs beaten

- shredded, sweetened coconut (optional)


The Rundown:

- preheat oven to 350

- grease and flour one 8'x4' or 9'x5' loaf pan

- mix flour, salt, spices, baking powder in bowl

- in seperate, larger bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar

- add vanilla and beaten eggs to butter/ sugar mixture

- cut up and mash bananas into wet mixture

- stir in dry ingredients, mixing until just moist

- pour into loaf pan, sprinkle coconut over top

- bake 60-65 min on center rack, until knife inserted into center comes out clean

Some awesome additions to this bread are chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, chopped nuts, dried cranberriies, raisins

fucking PERFECT red lobster cheddar biscuits. i mean that.

I did it. I figured out the secret to making red lobsters' cheddar biscuits. most people think the secret everyone leaves out is old bay seasoning (yeah, its necessary), but not a single recipe i've looked at for them in the past ten years mentioned this one little detail, the TRUE key ingredient. BUTTERMILK instead of regular. HAHAHAHAHA! I win. I fucking win. Now you all can revel in the same glory I did when I tasted my victoriuous results.

The Ingredients:

Biscuits
- 2 cups flour

- 2 tsp baking powder'

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 1 tsp seasoned salt

- 1 tsp old bay seasoning

- 1 tsp garlic powder

- 1/3 cup COLD butter cut into small chunks

- 2 tbsp vegetable oil

- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

- 1/2 plus 1/3 cup buttermilk (divided)


Garlic butter sauce

- 3 tbsp butter

- 1/2 tsp garlic

- 1/2 tsp dried parsley


The Rundown:
- preheat oven to 400

- mix flour, garlic, old bay, salt, seasoned salt

- drop in cold butter chunks, mix in by hand

- add cheese and vegetable oil, mix by hand

- pour in first 1/2 cup of buttermilk, stir

- slowly add other 1/3 cup until dough is... well... doughy. so its a little sticky
but not TOO messy

- drop lemon sized amounts of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet (should make 12)

- bake 16-17 min

- in small saucepan, melt butter, garlic and parsley, spoon over biscuits as soon as you take them out of the oven

- serve those bitches warm!