Earthquake Bread

I would have spent the evening lazing with my ill videographer friend, but he decided that he would best overcome his illness without my company. I had even offered to chronicle the tale of the salmonella peanut butter in this space, but that story has been postponed indefinitely. As a consolation, he sent me a link to an interesting online magazine while he was home recuperating.

Ever since the half-marathon, I’ve been...well...not a whole lot different than before the half-marathon, come to think of it. I keep telling myself that I’m training for a full marathon, but I can’t shake the nagging feeling that my aerobic capacity is suffering, as my mileage can’t quite keep pace with my verbiage.

So tonight I decided to bake. It was going to be banana bread, but then I decided to get creative. I added some raspberries and then some precious, imported chocolate and peanut butter morsels. As I write, the following mix has been in the oven for approximately twenty minutes, and the smoke alarm has only gone off once, remotely reminiscent of a previous baking incident:

• 1¼ cups sugar
• ½ cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1½ cups mashed ripe bananas (3 medium)
• 15-20 raspberries
• ½ cup milk, freshly curdled with lemon juice
• 1ish tsp vanilla extract
• 2½ cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup chocolate and peanut butter chips (hold the salmonella)

I don’t know...maybe too much thinking about peanut butter and jelly got to me. Maybe I saw previously that bread, bananas, peanut butter and chocolate chips can go well together.

If it’s any good, I think I’ll name it Earthquake Bread.