How to Use It Up: Bananas

Submitted by Lynn on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 3:31pm.

I made spelt banana bread today, a double batch, and it's already almost gone. I think that's a clue I need to bake more.

You like the chicken tea kettle? Anhata found that at a rummage sale and decided it belonged at our house.

The bananas had been sitting forlornly on the counter waiting for someone to mash them up for bread, and I'm glad I took the time today to do it. For some reason they're not getting eaten fast enough, and no one in our house likes bananas once they're really ripe. We're all barely-ripe banana eaters.

However, one person in the house likes banana bread, apparently likes it more than she wants anyone else to know. Guess who?

She used to do this with expensive foo-foo bread from the store--her older sister, too. We'd cut into what looked like a whole loaf and find a hollow shell. Gutted bread.

Anyway, try the recipe. It's tasty, a little spicier than traditional banana bread.

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I'm always baking banana

Submitted by jennye on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 10:05am.

I'm always baking banana bread. If you only have 1 or 2 bananas, or don't have time for it right now, just throw them in the freezer. Don't peel, or put them in a baggie. Just like it is. Yes, it will turn black. Whenever you have enough bananas or some time, just take them out of the freezer, sit them on the counter for about an hour, and bake up some bread!

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Frozen bananas

Submitted by Jilsyt on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 11:39am.

We find that we enjoy over ripe bananas after they've been frozen. We either peel and chop them into chunks and throw them into a baggy, OR we cut them in half and put sticks in them to eat as Popsicles later. Yum. Also, we have found that throwing the chunks in the blender with a wee bit of milk makes a great ice cream substitute when you really don't want to go out and get any, but do want a dishful.

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