- ripen things. Like each other? So, if you want the buch to last, should you separate them??
Why not make some banana crumble. Yum Yum. :D
Dunno about the ripening thing though.
Over-ripe: make banana chutney. Butcher was seling them off cheap the other day, so I did.
Nothing like a quick banana loaf for using up over ripe banana's...makes the kitchen smell heavenly :D
Quote from: HappyCatz on March 02, 2007, 21:32:47
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
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].
Quote from: HappyCatz on March 02, 2007, 21:32:47
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
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.
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.
"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??
Quote from: artichoke on March 02, 2007, 20:34:34
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. ::)
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..
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
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.
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!!!!
Quote from: artichoke on March 02, 2007, 20:34:34
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
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....
That'll do nicely thanks Artichoke. ;D
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.
Banana, cake recipe pleeeeese.
Hi does anyone want my banana walnut muffin recipe, it can also be made in a loaf tin, Ii is agood one for very over ripe bannas, it is very moist.I will type if anyone is interested. XX Jeannine
Yes please, Jeannine, we seem to have a lot of overripe bannanas in this house - most go to the chickens but would be good to use some for us.
This recipe works well even when they are very over ripe.
I make mine in a Kenwood Major as I do it before I go to work and we have them for breakfast, but adjust the method to suit yourself, just don't fuss with them. It is a very forgiving recipe.
My recipe is in US cup measures, if you have a problem with this get back to me and I will convert it fot you, but it is very easy if you have a measure that will hold 8 fluid ounces, this is the standard size measuring cup in the US( it is about 250 ml)
Teaspoon holds 5 ml, tablespoon hold 15 ml,both level. These cups are available all over now in the UK.
I don't have time to weigh things out.
Butter or Marg 1/2 cup
Regular sugar 1 cup
Eggs 2
Bananas mashed 3..don't worry too much about the size unless they are very small in which case use 4.
Plain flour 1 3/4 cups
Bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon
Salt 1/2 teaspoon
Chopped walnuts 1 cup.
Raisins or sultanas 1/2 cup
You can replace 1/2 cup of flour with natural bran if you want a bran muffin.
I literally chuck everything in the bowl, blast it for a minute,and it's done. The mixture should be lumpy, this is important and it should fairly soft consistency.
If you want to do it the fussy way.
Crean butter and sugar,beat in eggs one at a time,add mashed bananas and blend.
Blend flour with raisins, nuts,salt, soda and baking powder and stir in,JUST TO MOISTEN,don't beat it, it should have lumps.
Transfer to a greased and floured loaf tin or use a liner.(9x5x3 loaf tin) OR 12 Large American muffin cases(Tesco)
Bake loaf in 350 oven for about 1 hour, test with toothpick OR about 25/30 minutes for muffins
You can add chocolate chips instead of raisins
If I am trying to use up lots of bananas I usually triple the recipe if I am making loaves for the freezer but I only use 2 loaf pans instead of three.This makes a bigger loaf both of which will go in the oven together(3 won't), you will then cook for 1 1/2 hours.
Enjoy XX Jeannine
Thanks for the yummy recipe - I have added it to my favourites & shall probably try it next weekend.
PS I have got some US cup measuring things - thanks.