How To Make Banana Bread [Video]

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How to Make Banana Bread

1 cup sugar
1/3 cup margarine or butter, softened
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (3 to 4 medium)
1/3 cup water
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350°.
Grease bottom only of loaf pan.
Mix sugar and margarine/butter
Stir in eggs until blended.
Add bananas and water; beat 30 seconds.
Stir in remaining ingredients except nuts just until moistened;
Stir in nuts.
Pour into pan.

Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 8-inch loaf 1 1/4 hours,
9inch loaf 55 to 60 minutes; cool 5 minutes.
Loosen sides of loaf from pan; remove from pan.
Cool completely before slicing.

Transcript provided by YouTube:

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hey kids
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welcome to another edition of
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cooking with dad
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and today i’m going to show you how to
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make banana bread so you know
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if you have some over ripe bananas that
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have been sitting around uh
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if you’ve ever baked banana bread first
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thing you think of when you see overly
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ripe bananas is
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ah i gotta make banana bread
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uh so anyway yeah so so make sure you
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hang on to those and make banana bread
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out of them because they’re they’re
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definitely sweeter when they’re overly
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ripe and they’re easy to mash so and
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you’ll see that when i’m making this so
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uh but first i do have a dad joke for
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you so
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did you hear about the bunch of bananas
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that decided to make their own crypto
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yeah they’re gonna call it banana bread
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so anyway let’s get started
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okay so i’ve got kind of prepared the
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ingredients already but we’re just going
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to walk through them real quick i’m also
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going to have this in my uh in the
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description of the video so you can
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reference it there as well but let’s
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just walk through the things that you’re
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going to need
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so you need one cup of sugar i already
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have the one cup of sugar already
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prepared here
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1 3 cup margarine or butter softened
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so
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this stick of butter is a half a cup but
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right on the side it actually shows you
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uh what a third cup looks like so we’ll
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just walk through that just in case
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you’ve never seen that before
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uh and then two eggs and
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half one and a half cups mashed ripe
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bananas so we have our overly ripe
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bananas and the nice thing about overly
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ripe bananas they might not be so great
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to actually eat but they’re more sweet
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uh
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as they as they ripen they they tend to
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be sweeter than ones that aren’t aren’t
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this ripe so
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uh and we need let’s see one third cup
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of water i got that we’re gonna need one
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and two thirds cups flour
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okay there you go and there was a note
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that said not self-rising flour so this
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is just regular flour okay i don’t know
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that you need to need to know that but
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just in case i’m going to throw that in
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there
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and then you’ll need a teaspoon baking
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soda okay and you’ll need one half
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teaspoon salt and you’ll need one
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quarter teaspoon baking powder
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and so what i’ve done is i went ahead
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and combined all those right here
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they’re already here
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because you want to like i’ve talked
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about before you want to make sure with
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powdered
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ingredients especially when you’re
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dealing with baking soda baking powder
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you want to make sure that those get
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mixed in good so we’ll just kind of
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we’ll use a little fork and we’ll stir
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this up then we’ll add it to our other
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dry ingredient flour and we’ll mix that
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up good to make sure it gets all the way
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through because if like i said before if
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you mix this in with your wet
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ingredients and it comes in a clump um
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it’s not going to do what it’s supposed
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to do and then it also
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will taste really bitter in that one
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clump that it’s in so
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okay that’s a a good hint for you and
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then it says one half cup
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chopped nuts but
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i like extra nuts in mine so i went a
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little bit overboard this is this is
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even a little more than a cup the
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ingredient says
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uh
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yeah half a cup but this is my own
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and so i’m adding extra nuts because i
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like that so
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all right so we’ll pull it closer so you
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can take a look you know a few things
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you’ll need too you’ll need a
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loaf pan like this we’ve had this around
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for many many years used for a lot of
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different
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uh
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banana breads over the years and
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zucchini bread and
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a few different other breads we’ve baked
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in there um and then you’ll want to have
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a rubber spatula i’ve talked about
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rubber spatulas before to get the rest
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of the stuff out let me just grab my
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rubber spatula
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this is one that i have it’s actually
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got it’s a christmas one i think i got
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it from my sister all i want for
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christmas is another cookie that’s what
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it says on it but
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it works well for uh for getting the
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rest of the stuff out when you when you
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get down to it okay so let’s get started
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okay so the first thing we’re gonna do
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is we’re gonna preheat our oven to 350.
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so let’s do that
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there we go
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okay and
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now we’re gonna we we’re gonna grease
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the bottom of the of the pan okay i’m
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just gonna use some pam though so
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she
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should have had that ready
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okay and then i just spray the bottom of
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this with a with cooking oil okay
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okay
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set that aside
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all right
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now we’re gonna we need to mix our
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butter and our sugar together okay this
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is a dry ingredient i get it but we’re
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gonna mix these two together we’re gonna
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mix the butter with the sugar kind of
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like
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in my last video on the cookies this
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will kind of clean and get it all to
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clean together but let’s just show you
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this so i need a third cup
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see that
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so i’m just gonna cut it at a third cup
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and then i’m gonna actually soften this
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okay do you see that i just went ahead
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and cut it at a third cup see that okay
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so now i’m just gonna unwrap this and
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i’m gonna put it in my
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microwave
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for
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about 30 seconds
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okay looks like maybe 30 seconds was a
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little bit too long for that it’s kind
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of soupy it’s not hot though um so i
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think it’s fine um
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like i said in a previous video i would
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just let that
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set at room temperature for a while but
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we’re trying to kind of speed this along
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so
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all right so the next thing we’re gonna
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do is we’re gonna
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mix the sugar and the margarine or
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butter okay so here’s our sugar let’s
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just go ahead and put that in here
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and we can use our uh
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our
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spatula
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easy for me to say right so let’s see
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get the rest of it out of there
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these rubber spatulas are ideal whenever
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you’re baking so they don’t cost a whole
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lot too so nice to have them around
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okay
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there you go
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and then now we’ll just go ahead and mix
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mix that up
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okay
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put this aside
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okay so now we’ll just mix that together
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just so everything clings together right
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okay now we’re gonna
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put in the two eggs
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we’ll add those let me set this off to
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the side here for now
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okay
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and if when you’re cracking these you
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notice that you put any shells in here
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you want to pick those out i don’t like
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finding shells in
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and my stuff i don’t know about you
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so
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okay and what you could do is you could
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crack the eggs over here
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and just make sure you don’t put your
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shells in it because it’s probably
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easier to get them out but i didn’t do
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that i was playing without a net there
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but that’s okay
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we’re good here
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okay
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stirring eggs until blended and then add
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bananas and water and then beat for 30
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seconds okay so now
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we just need to
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take these out of here and these can be
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a little bit
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when they’re when they’re mushy they can
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be a little bit gross
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but
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okay not too bad
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see that doesn’t look all that bad
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inside there
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they just don’t come out as easy as a
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regular
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banana okay
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so let me go ahead and do that with the
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rest of them
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now we’re just going to mash those up
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good
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doesn’t take much because they’re pretty
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soft right now right
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okay
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don’t need to over mash them but
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you want to mash them up like that
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okay
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and like i said with a fork like that
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kind of pushing it through that’s how
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you that’s how you can mix things you
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just push it right on through see that
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okay
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you can do it with bananas that aren’t
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as right but like i said they’re sweeter
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when they’re over ripe like that and
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plus it’s way easier to to do this to
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them right much easier okay so we’re
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gonna add the bananas
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okay
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that’s actually keep that
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looks like our oven’s ready to go
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okay
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doing that and then we’re gonna add the
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water
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third cup of water
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i think i’ve done it before where i
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didn’t even add the water and i think it
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was fine
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okay so now
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we’re gonna make sure this stuff is all
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mixed up right our different
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baking soda baking powder
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and salt
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okay and now we’re gonna mix that in
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here
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okay
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and
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do that and make sure that’s mixed good
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right like we said you can’t emphasize
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that enough
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mix that good
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okay
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we’re getting close now let’s go ahead
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and just mix that up good
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you have to be careful so it doesn’t
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spill out of your bowl right
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okay
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looking good
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that’s exactly what it’s supposed to
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look like like that
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okay
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i can really smell the bananas smells so
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good
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okay
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now we’re gonna add our nuts to it
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again walnuts is
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pretty good for any a lot of
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applications like this so
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there we go
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okay
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okay so we’re just about there
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using my
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trusty rubber spatula you’ll be able to
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get everything out of here and here we
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go
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i usually make two of these at a time it
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all depends on how many bananas you have
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you know we could just use if we had six
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bananas we could have made
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two
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three and three right
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but
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i only had i actually had five bananas
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so i’m just gonna make one
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there you go
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that’s all there is to it and
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i’m just gonna throw that in the oven
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for
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55 to 60 minutes so i’m just gonna go
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ahead and put it in for 55 minutes and
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we’ll see what it looks like
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okay so like i’ve mentioned before and i
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just can’t emphasize it enough uh so 55
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minutes that’s how long we’ve got
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perfect time to clean up your kitchen go
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ahead and just put everything away and
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then all we got to do we’re just going
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to pull that thing out of the oven and
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everything’s already clean
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it needs to sit for a little bit
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i think you want to let it you know cool
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completely
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it smells good when it first comes out
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so you’re tempted to want to you know uh
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go ahead and dive in but it really needs
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to kind of set so you want to let it
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cool for a time so we’ve got a lot of
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time before we can actually eat that
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thing so um
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uh yeah so now would be a great time to
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just go ahead and clean your kitchen up
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because then when you’re done you’re
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you’re really done
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we’ve got about 10 seconds left we’re
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gonna go ahead and pull this out of here
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and then you just test it with uh with a
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toothpick to see
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see what that looks like i gotta go find
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a toothpick so here we go one
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second
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okay
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ooh that looks so good look at that
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nice
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okay
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turn
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off the timer i just want to turn off
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the timer not the oven just because i
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want to check this first
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all right we’re gonna go ahead and put a
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toothpick in it
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and it came out clean so it’s good if
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you put that toothpick in there
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and it came out and it had stuff on it
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uh you probably would need to let it
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cook a little bit longer oh actually you
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know what
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that
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over here so when i was doing this it
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was kind of scraping it off i’m gonna go
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ahead and throw this back in
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okay because you can see it’s still kind
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of gooey in the center here
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okay i went another 10 minutes and now
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we’re gonna go ahead and check this
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again here
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yeah see that came out clean
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so it’s good so now we we’re gonna let
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this set here for five minutes
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and then we’ll kind of work it out and
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then just pop it out and let it set on
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this
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board by itself without the pan
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and then probably for about an hour let
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it completely cool and then it’s good to
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go
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okay so now we’re just going to work our
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way around it
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and the bot we we sprayed the bottom
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with pam remember that
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so you should just be able to pop it out
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once we
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once we work it around the edges
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been sitting here for about five minutes
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so the pan’s still
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kind of hot
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should be good now though
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okay
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let’s see here
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there we go looking good
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okay
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kind of warm
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okay
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now just let that sit for about an hour
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and then we’ll be able to slice it just
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slice it about you know however thick
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you want it a lot of times i’ve seen
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them pretty thick like if you go to a
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coffee shop they’ll give you a big old
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slice like that
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but that’ll cost you like three bucks
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right so this thing’s
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anyway uh there you go
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okay so that’s all there is to making
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banana bread zucchini bread’s very
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similar but maybe we’ll do that at some
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point but that’s how you make banana
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bread
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uh i hope you enjoy this i hope it was
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uh fairly simple for you so that you can
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make it for yourself if you like banana
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bread and if you have some
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uh overripe bananas sitting around you
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may as well give it a shot so
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all right so thanks for watching and god
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bless you

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