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The Easiest Banana Bread Recipe

  • 2 eggs
  • 2c flour
  • 3/4c sugar
  • 3 large ripe bananas
  • 3/4c veg oil
  • 3 tspn. vanilla extract
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • 1/2 tspn baking powder
  • salt to taste

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9x4" pan. Stir all ingredients together. Pour into the pan and bake for 1 hour. This recipe took me 5 minutes to whip up, and the bread turned out divine. I didn't have to use yeast or gluten.

Acer macrophyllum

Common Name: Big Leaf Maple

Picea sitchensis

Common name: Sitka Spruce

Tsuga heterophylla

Common Name: Western Hemlock

Arbutus menziesii

Common Name: Pacific Madrone
MacDonald Forest
March 2007

Bark can be used for colds and stomach problems. Arbutus is latin for strawberry. The name was used to describe the tree's fruits.

Thuja plicata

Common Name: Western Red Cedar
Oregon State University campus
March 2007

Used for canoe making, houses, totem poles, boxes, baskets, clothing and hats, tools, harpoons, masks, rattles, benches, drum logs, whistles, paddles and dishes. The coastal salish tribe tells that the red cedar was created by Great Spirit in remembrance of a man who cared for others.

Gaultheria shallon

Common Name: Salal
MacDonald Forest
March 2007

Very common in the Northwest. Young leaves were chewed as an appetite suppressant by native tribes. Berries can be used as a sweetener.

Rhododendron

OSU MacDonald Forest
March 2007