I recently received a copy of Joanne Chang's Flour Bakery cookbook. The first recipe I made from it, milk chocolate-hazelnut cookies, turned out to be somewhat disastrous in texture and shape. I didn't even bother taking pictures of it. This bread, however, looks to be more promising. This recipe was published in Gourmet magazine back in 2003 and is also posted on Food Network's site. It has almost 1000 reviews averaging almost five of five stars. I'm a sucker for reviews and I'm a sucker for banana bread. I've also had a hankering for banana bread for weeks and would have produced a loaf sooner had my bananas not been squandered away by my mother.
I'm patiently waiting in my room as the loaves cool down. The fragrant scent of banana bread is wafting in and out of the rooms of my house. I ran 5.55 miles today in preparation for this bread (and bread from Tartine!). I think it's time for me to go downstairs and dig in now.
