Banana Bread even Julie will Eat!

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 large eggs

4 ripe bananas, mashed

1 teaspoon vanilla 

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup buttermilk, well shaken  (would anyone like a martini?)

Preheat oven to 350.  Grease 2 9 x 5 loaf pans.

With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.  Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Beat in the bananas and vanilla.  Sift the flour together with the baking soda and salt and add to the banana mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.  

Pour into loaf pans and bake for 55 minutes.  Cool slightly in pan before turning the loaves onto wire racks to cool completely.