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Hi all,

So...I have three over-ripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter that I need to use. I have a fabulous recipe for banana bread, but I've made that so many times. I'd like to try something new. Any thoughts? I'd even go for smoothie recipes (very hot and muggy here).

Thanks,

Amanda

 
REC: Roasted Banana Ice Cream

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Roasted banana ice cream

3 ripe bananas
1/3 C sugar (preferably brown sugar) + 2 T regular white sugar
1 T butter
1 t vanilla essence
1 C milk (I used 3%)
½ C fresh cream (chilled)
1 ½ t lemon juice
½ t salt
½ t cinnamon powder
1/8 C raisins soaked in 2 T dark rum
Peel the bananas and cut into 1 inch chunks. In a glass baking dish take the banana pieces and brown sugar, and toss with the butter. Bake for 40 minutes, till browned, turning just once in the middle of the baking process.
Remove the contents of the baking dish into a mixing bowl. Add the all the other ingredients except raisins, and blend to a smooth puree. Mix in the raisins and any nuts, if using, and pour into an ice cream maker to set in the fridge. (I used the plastic container of store-bought ice cream to chill mine, blended it once after 2 hours of chilling.)



David Lebovitz, The Perfect Scoop Book

 
Amanda, one of my favorite smoothies is: frozen very ripe banana....

frozen strawberries, light yogart and some honey. I don't have measurements, I just throw them in the blender. If the fruit is not frozen just add some ice cubes. Once when I didn't have any strawberries but was craving one of these, I used some chunky strawberry jam and left out the honey, it worked great!

Other options would be, coconut milk instead of the yogart, for a splurge maybe coconut cream instead of the yogart and honey (ooo, this sounds good!) Just use what you have on hand and what's in season.

 
Given the heat, the smoothie won out...

Thanks for the recipe. My banana was not frozen, but it all worked anyway. I also threw in some semi-frozen strawberries that I found in the fridge.

(My fridge is frustrating--it's one with a vertical freezer and fridge--the freezer is next to the fridge--and anything in the fridge next to the freezer wall gets frozen, no matter how we adjust the temp. I have lost more fruit this way, and have finally learned what can't get put there.)

Anyway, it made for a nice drink on a hot morning. Thanks much!

 
Same here, and...

Something my friends and I used to do on hot sultry nights in NYC: The green grocer stands would sell their overripe fruits very cheaply. We would walk a block or so and collect the black bananas, the squishy peaches, etc from several vendors, take them home, throw them in the blender with rum and ice, and make great "evening coolers".

 
& BTW, in the Caribbean, they go to muck in a day so most folks freeze them. Good way to collect

enough to make a big batch of something.

 
Amanda, Marg is so right, here they go black quickly even in the fridge, so......

we pick (or buy) them and keep on the shelf for just a day or so, then in the fridge for a day or two by then if no-one has eaten them we peel them and freeze them.
(I generally have a whole hand at a time which is when everyone else has as many from their palms)
I freeze them in a single layer and they last for ages and ages.
I use them for banana bread, of course, often make banana daquiries...it is a guest thing to do, make their own drinks.....banana muffins and smoothies which of course would be the drink without the booze (neither Marge nor I can handle this you know)

Jokes aside one of the yummiest and healthiest drinks.....COLD skim milk (about 3/4 of a tall glass) in the blender add a semi-frozen banana or two and whizz until thick, add a little vanilla ess. and there you have it.

I also use these bananas as a sort of upside down pine-apple cake. Well one gets desperate to use them..... And I do feed them to the chickens and use them on the compost heap!

 
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