I think every woman will agree that there are certain baked goods that are more seasonally appealing than others. Pumpkin bread in the middle of summer never sounds good. Pumpkin bread on the first day of October, when the wind carries a formidable chill and the leaves are glistening gold and yellow, however, tastes delicious. A blackberry cobbler would never do for a Christmas dessert, and a lemon blueberry muffin in January? Kind of strange. To me, banana bread muffins are the golden (truly, golden) breakfast of summers past, present, and hopefully, future. Luckily for me, I always have blackening bananas on my counters. No matter how many my son eats, I still have a remnant left over to be reckoned with. My sister has an entire freezer full of frozen speckled bananas, just waiting to be tossed into breads. I don't know if she ever actually gets around to it, because every single visit, her freezer is full. And I have yet to eat any banana bread. (She and my mom don't agree with … [Read more...]