Bananas and oatmeal

Is there anything that smells more like home than banana bread baking in the oven.  I've eaten so much of it over the years that I tend to steer away from the almighty banana.  But as I was cleaning up the kitchen yesterday I saw those spotted fruit staring at me; begging to be thrown into a mixing bowl.  Okay fine but I need something else; oatmeal.  I looked up an oatmeal and banana loaf recipe and found it on allrecipes.com; which is one of my favorite recipe site.

I very rarely make a recipe as is; I typically switch things out when I think it would be better.  Most of the time it works; sometimes I should have followed the recipe.  This was great as I changed it.  I switched out shortening for butter; and used brown sugar instead of white.  I cut the sugar in half and used 1/2 cup of honey as well.  I added chopped pecans for some extra protein and chopped some giant raisins up and tossed them in as well.  It is really great; heavier than the fluffy type loaf but definitely leaves you feeling like you just ate something that will stick to your ribs.  Ingredients below:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup honey

2 eggs, beaten

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup oats

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (I used three medium)

1/2 cup chopped raisins (optional)

1/2 cup chopped pecans (chopped myself; so they were larger than the prechopped ones)