I found myself with three overripe bananas who seemed to have sent a special express message to any fruit flies in the zip code. And I had just reorganized my kitchen area. I hate wasting food. These factors combined to form this banana bread. I could use the bananas, test the new setup and not throw away the bananas which were pretty much only going to be used for a purpose like this.
I based this banana bread recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. However, I knew that there was a jar of maraschino cherries in the fridge so I decided to add them. There was part of a bag of chocolate chips in the freezer and some peanuts in there. So I decided to make a bread that was inspired by the banana split. It worked, including the kitchen setup.