Banana Bread w/ Wheat and Honey!

So the following is my attempt at a recipe-sharing blog post (a'la Susie Horn) based on what I've seen on a lot of other blogs.  I chose to document my first attempt to make a "healthy" banana bread.  Basically it was the start of Spring Break and I was itchin' to bake something and one roommate had left like 6 bananas and the other roommate had given up processed sugar for lent... hmm the perfect solution: Banana Bread w/ honey! I found a recipe using wheat flour here and I decided since I love the taste of honey-wheat bread and I love banana bread I'd get the remaining necessities and make the recipe.  Here's how you can do it too!

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup vegetable oil

• 1/2 cup honey

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup mashed bananas

• 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 cup hot water

• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I used pecans)

My Ingredients. I doubled everything to make two loaves to use as many bananas as possible

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

In a large bowl, beat oil and honey together. 

Add eggs, and mix well.  

Stir in bananas and vanilla:

Stir in flour and salt: 

Add baking soda to hot water, stir to mix, and then add to batter. 

Blend in chopped nuts. 

Spread batter into a greased 9x5 inch loaf pan. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes:

While baking, clean up the mess/damage:

Also, watch the end of a chick flick on TBS (View from the Top was on, love me some Mark Ruffalo)

Lastly, make nachos and a salad for dinner (These last three are obvi my own suggestions and will not affect the taste of the bread)

Check it:

Cool on wire rack for 1/2 hour before slicing:

Basically it's SUPER SIMPLE! The only new thing for me was this was the first time I used whole wheat flour and also the first time I tried the baking soda + hot water trick.  It seemed to work pretty well.

I made one leaf with nuts and one without and both were DELICIOUS!

Let me know if you decide to try the recipe, and how yours comes out!