Bad Banana Reborn

I am not sure why I never thought to try it before but yesterday I rather unceremoniously chucked a very old, bruised banana into my yeast bread dough.  I cut out the worst parts but this banana had clearly seen much better days.  It was either into the bread or into the compost, so why not?

Oh my goodness!  The result was magic.  I created the most delicious banana-flavoured bread ever!

I ate my slice warm and lightly buttered, while Seamus and Alistair slathered theirs in Nutella.  Needless to say, we are currently on the look out for more almost bad bananas ready to be made over into a loaf of artisan yeast bread.  An old, mushy, bruised banana never tasted so good!