Bananas -

[tim]

- ripen things. Like each other? So, if you want the buch to last, should you separate them??

[tim]

[dtw]

Why not make some banana crumble.  Yum Yum.  :D

Dunno about the ripening thing though.

[artichoke]

Over-ripe: make banana chutney. Butcher was seling them off cheap the other day, so I did.

[HappyCatz]

Nothing like a quick banana loaf for using up over ripe banana's...makes the kitchen smell heavenly :D

[emmy1978]

Nothing like a quick banana loaf for using up over ripe banana's...makes the kitchen smell heavenly :D

Yep, agree. Also don't know Tim. Maybe you could get loads of those banana tree things and have row of them on worktop with one banana hanging on each one.  ;D

[Marymary]

Tim, me thinks you need to do an experiment - all scientific like.  :)

Over ripe bananas in this household go to the chickens who adore them - their favourite thing in the whole world & they can smell them a mile off [well almost].

[mc55]

Nothing like a quick banana loaf for using up over ripe banana's...makes the kitchen smell heavenly :D

ummmm, banana bread - one of the most heavenly foods on earth

[Obelixx]

I used to think that till I found a recipe for banana gingerbread.  Ticks all the boxes.

BANANA GINGERBREAD

Make this cake 3 days before needed so that the flavours develop.

240g   plain wholemeal flour
15ml        baking powder
15ml   ground ginger
150g   warm milk
120g    demerara sugar
90g   soft salted butter
150g   black treacle
2 tbs   golden syrup
3   bananas, mashed
2   eggs, beaten

Preheat oven to 160C.   Grease and line a 1lb/500g loaf tin.

Sieve the flour, baking powder and ginger into a large bowl.   Heat the milk, sugar, butter, treacle and syrup but do not boil.   When melted together, add the bananas and eggs then pour it onto the flour and mix well.

Pour into the tin and bake for 1¼ hours.   Turn out to cool then wrap immediately in double foil.

[Tulipa]

I have used this recipe for about 20 years and it never fails.  Never lasts long either in my house ;)

Banana and Chocolate Chip Cake

2 ripe bananas
6 oz margarine
8 oz sugar
3 eggs beaten
10oz SR flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp bicarb
4 oz choc chips

Mash the bananas.

Melt the margarine and sugar in a large pan. 

Add the flour, bicarb and salt. 

Beat in the eggs and bananas. 

Cool slightly and stir in the chocolate chips.

Place in an 8” deep cake tin and bake at 160º C (150º fan oven) for 55 mins or until skewer comes clean.

It is very easy and quite quick to make and very popular!  Good for using up over-ripe bananas too.

[tim]

"So, if you want the bunch to last, should you separate them??"

Some great ideas there, but we need to know how to prevent them rushing into overripenes??

[Froglegs]

Over-ripe: make banana chutney. Butcher was seling them off cheap the other day, so I did.

What ever next :o a butcher selling bananas. ::)

[Hyacinth]

I loathe over-ripe (or even ripe) bananas; buy a bunch that are green every week & eat one a day for breakfast. Tim, I keep them in my dark cold lumber-room and they're just fine and ripen slowly. Because they're green when I buy, I don't separate the bunch. If they're going yellow, I'd be inclined to separate them out..

[Jeannine]

Keep them cool, but not in the fridge, the skins will darken quickly if you do, although the fruit inside won't be overripe like the black ones at room temp.Hanging them is best.We leave some to go very dark as we eat banana muffins everyday XX Jeannine

[Rosyred]

Banana's drive me nuts, sometimes I can buy a lovely bunch and get home and they are bruised. Even when I try so hard to protect them.

[Biscombe]

I am sooooooo rubish at making desserts, but heres the easiest no fail one I know!

Baked Bananas

1. Stil bananas lenght ways (leave skin on)
2. stick in your favourite chocolate (mine is green and black buterscotch)
2. Cover in foil and bake or BBQ

How easy is that!!!!

[Emagggie]

Over-ripe: make banana chutney. Butcher was seling them off cheap the other day, so I did.

How do you make it please?

A Banana Lover. ;D

[artichoke]

I replied about banana chutney but it was lost in some sort of malfunction here. I have not kept therecipe, but if you Google it you get lots of recipes, as I did, and I chose the one that looked simplest and added elements of the others...... Maybe the BBC site. I though it a little insipid, so I am afraid I boiled it up again with a jar of some 2 yr old home made chutney and sprinkled a little chili on it. Not ve helpful as a recipe, sorry....

[Emagggie]

That'll do nicely thanks Artichoke. ;D

[tim]

Only just caught back up with this - & thought that for good jams or chutneys you "only use the finest fruit". Not the rotten ones.
Yes - sugar & vinegar can disguise even that, but is it cricket?

And with fried bananas - can't do a search - yes, our staple diet. Butter, brown sugar, & flame in Calvados - or similar.

[rosebud]

Banana, cake recipe pleeeeese.