Banana Cookies

I am almost embarrassed to tell you how many over-ripe bananas I throw away. Sometimes I try to save them....I will freeze them in zip-loc bags, but even then my banana recipe repertoire is not very big.....
Banana bread
banana cake
banana cookies.
So, I tend to throw out a lot.

Well, I guess there is the popular Banana Split and bananas on my cereal....but this post is about Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies.

This is a fast to whip up cookie dough, very moist and soft, a cake-like cookie, which is my husband's favorite type of cookie.
The recipe was given to me by an original Friday Friend*, Susie.

Susie and I and our husbands lived in a duplex when we were first married, they on one side, us on the other, about 30 years ago. It was just like Lucy and Ricky, Ethel and Fred. Really, it was....
picture this if you will.... the two of us, Susie and myself, trying to rescue a mouse that had gotten in to her house. She wanted to set it free, I was helping her. Our husbands just looked on laughing. It's very hard to capture a mouse--alive. She had a soft heart then, and she still does to this day. I've become hardened over the years...give me a mousetrap any day. LOL
But we are still great friends, Godmothers to each other's children.
She always said she wasn't/isn't' a cook, but she has a few great cookie recipes that I still make!

Banana cookies

3/4 cups shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
1 3/4 cups quick-cooking oatmeal
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup mashed bananas
1 6oz pkg chocolate chips

Cream shortening, sugar and egg. Add bananas, mix well.
Add dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes.

enjoy with a glass of milk!

*Original Friday Friend? What? Who? huh?
I've moved often during my 31 year marriage, and collected good friends along the way. One day about 10 years ago, I sent an e-mail (this was before blogs...or before I knew about them anyway ) to all my close friends and female relatives, about 50 of them, and asked "what's for supper?"
Then when I cut and compiled and pasted and sent everybody's answer out to all of them. This was on a Friday.
From that, it because a forum, and even tho I am the only connecting link, they've become friends--albeit, Internet friends--over the years. We've had divorces, marriages, children born, children die, graduations, anniversaries, milestones, job losses, career moves, grand babies, sickness, happiness and lots and lots of eating/cooking and laughing.
So my blog....named in honor of our e-mail forum, the Friday Friends. I talk about them all the time... in my blogs. You might get to know them too.