Saturday mornings are all about cartoons and made-from-scratch awesome breakfasts.  At least that's how we do Saturday mornings before 9am when the hustle and bustle of the day/weekend really begins.  If the monotony of waffles and pancakes has you down, then you should make these Banana Oatmeal Cookies.  They're really dessert but I disguised them as breakfast simply by serving them before noon.  They have all the same ingredients as many breakfasts at our house, just in a different form.   When making these cookies, I followed the instructions as they're written with a couple exceptions:  Instead of cutting shortening into the dry ingredients, I placed the shortening into the bowl of my KitchenAid mixer.  To that I blended egg the mashed banana.  Next, I added the dry ingredients, followed by the oatmeal, and chocolate chips instead of nuts at the end. I also only made one tray of cookies (a dozen).  I wanted to experiment wi...