Healthy Banana Bread

Ingredients
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
3/4 cup honey
2 eggs, beaten
3 mashed overripe bananas

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together applesauce and honey. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

**I haven't tried this yet, but thought the recipe looked good when I saw it on facebook**

Easy Dinner Rolls

• 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 1/4 cup dry potato flakes
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add potato flakes, sugar, salt, egg, vegetable oil, and 1cup of the flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in remaining flour. Continue stirring until smooth, scraping batter from sides of bowl.
2. Cover and let dough rise in warm place until doubled, about 20 to 30 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 400* F. Lightly grease 12 muffin cups or grease your cookie sheet.
4. Punch down dough. Spoon dough into 12 greased muffin cups, filling each half full. Let rise until batter reaches tops of cups, or about 20 minutes.
5. Bake in a preheated 400* F oven for 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

~I actually didn't use the muffin tins as I was in a hurry the first time I made these. I just quickly shaped them in roughly the shape of a roll and plopped them on a cookie sheet. They don't look fabulous, but tasted magnificent! So I haven't ever used the tins. :)

Flour Tortillas

4 1/4 C flour
3 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2/3 tsp shortening
2 C warm water

-Combine dry ingredients evenly.
-Cut in shortening.
-Add most of the water and mix by hand. Add rest of water if necessary.
-DO NOT OVERWORK THE DOUGH
-Roll into lots of fist sized balls of dough.
-Roll out to desired thickness.
-Place in frying pan and cook over medium heat.
-When the dough gets largish bubbles, turn over and cook on the other side.

Soft Pretzels

• 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
• 2 cups warm water (110 degrees to 115 degrees)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 egg
• 6 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• coarse salt
DIRECTIONS
-In a mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water.
-Add the sugar, butter, salt, egg and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth.
-Stir in enough remaining flour to form a stiff dough.
-Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top.
-Cover and refrigerate for 2-24 hours.
-Punch dough down.
-Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Cut each into 16 pieces. Roll each piece into a 20-in. rope. Shape into a pretzel.
-Place on greased baking sheets.
-Beat egg yolk and cold water; brush over pretzels.
-Sprinkle with coarse salt.
-Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 25 minutes.
-Bake at 400 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
-Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.