Growing up I don't ever remember eating anyone elses baking except my mothers. She baked for all the neighbors. So when I would go over and play with the neighbor kids I was either eating my own mother's cookies or store bought ones. So I really had no comparison. So I went off to college and quickly choose banana bread one morning for breakfast. It tasted nothing like my mother's and I chalked it up to just being bad cafeteria food. We had many local cafe's and so one time while on a coffee run I bought a slice of banana bread. Nope, didn't taste like hers. I repeated this process many times until I finally broke down and told my mom that no one makes banana bread like her. She just smiled and said that is because I make mine with Graham flour. What the heck was that I thought. My mom explained that it was a wheat flour that she could not actually find in Arizona so my aunt would have to send it to her(which is why we didn't get banana bread all that often). You can find it quite … [Read more...]