Banana Bread

4 mashed brown Bananas (about 2 C)
1/2 C butter (roomtemp.)
1 C sugar
2 eggs
2 C flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 C chocolate chips (optional)
nuts (optional)

Cream the butter and sugar together, and then add the bananas.  Mix in the cinnamon, vanilla, salt, soda, and eggs.  Stir in the flour, and finally the chips and/or nuts if you want.
Grease 2 sweet loaf pans, or one bread loaf pan, and pour in the mixture.  Bake at 350 for 60-70 min.  If you're using one bread loaf pan, cover the bread with foil after 60 min. while it finishes baking.  Employ the toothpick  test to check for "done-ness."

(Recipe and photo courtesy of Pirijo Silver,)