BS: 13 over-ripe bananas

Subject: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Mo the caller
Date: 13 May 08 - 10:48 AM

suggestions please

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 May 08 - 10:50 AM

Cake; rather a lot of cake I admit, but freezable at least...

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: frogprince
Date: 13 May 08 - 10:55 AM

Lay a long strip of heavy plastic down a slope, grease it up, and let the local kids slide down it.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:01 AM

Flapjacks

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:02 AM

How freezable is a banana anyway? Never really thought of it before but if they're already past their best then discard the skins and bag the fruit for future use in - er - porridge?

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:11 AM

"I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)" by Chris Yacich

[C]Standing by the [G7]fruit store on the [C]corner
[C]Once I heard a [G7]customer com[Gm]plain [A7]
You [D7]never seem to [G]show
The [D7]fruit we all love [G]so
[D7]That's why bus'[Am]ness [D7]hasn't been the [G]same [Dm][G7]

[C]I don't like [Gaug]your [C]peaches,
[D7]They are full of stones
[G7]I like bananas because they have no [C]bones! [Gaug]

[C]Don't give me [Gaug]to[C]matoes,
[D7]Can't stand ice-cream cones
[G7]I like bananas because they have no [C]bones! [C7]

No [F]matter where I go,
With Susie, [Cdim]May or [C]Anna
[Am]I [D7]want the world to [Am]know,
I [D7]must have my ba[G7]nanas

[C]Cabbages [Gaug]and [C]onions
[D7]Hurt my singing tones
[G7]I like bananas because they have no [C]bones!

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:17 AM

You could use some in a milkshake.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Mo the caller
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:18 AM

Have you got a recipe for the cake? Is it just spoiling an other wise good cake by putting bananas in?
OH came home from the fruit shop with more bananas than we usually buy in a month, and though he likes them mushy I can't see him getting through that many. Some are already oozing. (She didn't exactly PAY him to take them away, but the next best thing)

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:20 AM

A little browsing should get you there. Try this for a start:

http://www.cookuk.co.uk/cake/banana-cake.htm

Myself, I'd just eat them...

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:23 AM

I like to eat bananas, 'cause they got no bones;
I like marijuana, 'cause it gets me stoned

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:38 AM

Oddly enough............Karen just made a double batch using this recipe (the original one from the Nilla Wafer box) and used 12 bananas (2 more than called for) and it was fandamtastic! Took me right back to the 50's and REAL puddings instead of the instant type crap. It was fine!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:46 AM

Yuck.

Call Chongo. He might still have some use for them.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: CarolC
Date: 13 May 08 - 11:48 AM

Peel them and freeze them. Then, one or two at a time, take them out, cut them up (while still frozen) and put them in the blender with some milk and orange juice (and other kinds of frozen fruit, if you want), and blend on high speed until smooth.   mmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: ClaireBear
Date: 13 May 08 - 12:09 PM

My banana bread recipe -- unfortunately not with me at work today -- is superb. Along with the usual ingredients, it calls for sour cream and grated orange peel, two substances that conspire to elevate the humble overripe banana to heavenly splendor.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Morticia
Date: 13 May 08 - 12:33 PM

Daiquiris.That is all.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: jeffp
Date: 13 May 08 - 12:57 PM

Like ClaireBear says, banana bread. Yummy!

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 13 May 08 - 05:25 PM

My lovely mother-in-law makes the best banana cake on the Fylde and freezes it; I could trouble her for the recipe, though I guess those 13 bananas won't make it to mañana...

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: GUEST,Q as guest
Date: 13 May 08 - 06:43 PM

Yep, banana bread (cake) is the best answer.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: bobad
Date: 13 May 08 - 06:59 PM

Mash and use as a body rub.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 May 08 - 07:19 PM

You could try drying them. There's a section on this page giving you various ways of doing this. (You have to scroll down a fair way.)

The first bananas I ever tasted were dried bananas sent home by my Dad in the army from North Africa - fresh bananas were completely unavailable during the war. I still think of them as being the real bananas - those fresh yellow ones are a pale substitute.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 May 08 - 08:09 PM

The "normal" banana bread recipe calls for three bananas, but I like it more cake-like, so I use five bananas (four if they are very large).

5 bananas, mashed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup white flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1-2 tablespoon melted butter
walnuts or pecans optional, at least 1/2 cup

pre-heat oven to 350 degrees (U.S.)

Mash bananas, mix in eggs. Mix dry ingredients and add to bananas, stir in butter as you mix it all. Mix in nuts, or arrange on top of batter.

Pour into greased regular-sized bread loaf pan (or smaller pans and reduce the baking time according to size). Bake 65 minutes (at least) and test for doneness by inserting toothpick into the middle.

If you're not using all of the bananas, mash them so they're easy to use (I mash five at a time) and freeze them. Make a note on the container if you do an odd number so you can supplement the frozen fruit when you get ready to use it. If you wanted to make this recipe with your bananas, I suggest you divide them into containers of 4 1/3 bananas each, make a loaf from one batch and freeze the other two batches.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 13 May 08 - 08:26 PM

Although I don't really know if it's been done before, I imagine that blending them, adding some water and yeast and letting the whole batch ferment will give you some type of alcohol. Bananas have the highest amount of carbs (sugars) of almost all the "fruits".

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: maeve
Date: 13 May 08 - 10:26 PM

Any bananas I don't want for banana bread, and all banana skins, go under the rose bushes here on the farm.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 14 May 08 - 04:35 AM

Didn't I hear recently that a banana skin takes 5 years to decompose?

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: maeve
Date: 14 May 08 - 05:44 AM

Not in my garden, it doesn't! Where did you hear that, do you recall? Orange peels do take a long time.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Joybell
Date: 14 May 08 - 06:00 AM

Like CarolC I peel and freeze them. Peeled frozen bananas are great just as they are as well as blended into shakes.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 14 May 08 - 06:30 AM

Banana flapjacks

4oz butter melted in a pan with
2 big spoons of honey,
2 or 3 mashed, really really ripe bananas
museli to mix.

Melt the butter in the pan with the honey, add the mashed bananas and as much muesli to make it a good solid mass - this varies between 10 and 14oz.

Bake in a moderate oven until springy to touch. Don't try taking them out of the pan until they've cooled a lot.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 14 May 08 - 07:12 AM

Where did you hear that, do you recall?

It was a recent edition of The One Show, caught in passing at the in-laws on Thursday night en-route to The Steamer in Fleetwood. Might not have been five years, but certainly long enough to give me pause for thought at the amount of banana skins I've casually discarded in my time thinking they'd break down pretty quickly...

Looking it up on-line I came up with this which makes interesting reading:

http://ask.metafilter.com/39649/Where-do-I-put-my-banana-peel

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Skivee
Date: 14 May 08 - 11:44 AM

Mail them to that worthless fleabag, Chongo.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 May 08 - 01:19 PM

Banana Wine.

I like bananas that have plenty of black on the skin. they are sweeter. Bruised flesh might be less palatable.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: maeve
Date: 14 May 08 - 06:24 PM

Thanks for your reply and link, Sedayne. In my case, the peels are tucked in over the roots of the rose bushes, and I find they break down within two weeks tops in summer. We have very good compost as mulch, though, so we may have an optimal situation for this kind of soil amendment.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 May 08 - 08:26 PM

like CarolC & Joybell, I peel & freeze ripe/over-ripe bananas & have been doing it for decades.

I can remember when our local fruit market was GIVING AWAY lots of very over-ripe bananas & most of the takers were older migrant women who knew what a treasure they were cos they how to use them. Other folks were turning up their noses at the sight of these black & brown bananas, we were gathering them up into bags & staggering off under our loads. YUM!

I used to have a great banana cake recipe, which froze well & was yummy when heated, tho also great eaten straight out of the freezer!

When I ate cooked porridge I would just cut the frozen banana into the pan & cook them together, now I eat muuesli, I just remove a banana from the freezer when starting brekkie preparations, and cut it up into my muesli when I'm ready to serve it. I also do the same when I'm making a banana smoothie. YUM

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 May 08 - 08:46 PM

If you have an ice cream maker, blend them, add ginger in some form (stem ginger in syrup is the best, chopped up and with some of the syrup added as well), then put them in the bowl and churn.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 May 08 - 12:20 AM

Fruit soup? Mix the bananas with yogurt in a blender.

I've made it with very ripe cantaloupe, and it was surprisingly good. I think bananas would work well too.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 15 May 08 - 04:29 AM

If they were over-ripe on Tuesday I bet they're pretty far gone by now, Mo! I believe composting is always a good option in such cases...

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: Mo the caller
Date: 15 May 08 - 09:34 AM

Well half of them are still waiting for me to make one of those cakes, 5 are in the freezer and the rest have been eaten.

Subject: RE: BS: 13 over-ripe bananas
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 May 08 - 09:42 AM

6.5 waiting
5 in freezer
1.5 eaten?

Looks like two banana breads to me!

Subject: miscount
From: Mo the caller
Date: 16 May 08 - 04:57 AM

There have never been so many bananas in the house at once, and I miscounted.
Started out with 15
He ate one
I put one in a nana sandwich
he ate two
I froze 5
I put 2 in in a banana cake
One and a half in banana flapjack
two and a half still waiting to go in the custard that's in the fridge.
I gave one to the hens.

The flapjack is in the tin, most of the cake is in the freezer. He had a slice hot with custard, and I sampled it with my cup of tea

Can anyone fit this to the tune of 10 green bottles.