Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Candied Ginger

If you read as many food blogs as I do, you'll inevitably have some favorites. Some of my favorite blogs read like stories, some are really funny and others just get straight to the point: the food.

After reading some blogs over and over again, you start to feel familiar with the writer: not like a friend, so much, but just familiar (I know that makes no sense).

I've noticed with certain blogs, my favorites, I'll think, "Oh, I wonder what Kristen (The Kitchen Sink) made today." Or "I can't wait to see what Molly (Orangette) posted this week."

It's a strange world the Internet has created with blogs and message boards and the like. Strange, but sometimes great. Especially when you come across a recipe like this.

I love banana bread and have a recipe that I pretty much use all the time. But I wanted to try something different one day and headed over to Molly's site and Oh, Lord, what a revelation. Her (or her friend's) Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Candied Ginger is out of this world good. I've made it four times in the past 30 days (two for others, two for us) and everyone has loved it. I would have never thought to put candied (crystallized) ginger in banana bread, but I'm glad to know that's an option.

I'll still use my go-to, simpler banana bread recipe for everyday eating, but when I want something a little different, or if I want to knock someone's socks off, I'll serve this one.

Head on over to Molly's blog to get the recipe and read her other posts.