Yellow-faced

[bugshaw]

I was sure I ordered six bananas, not six bunches of eight bananas. But I am wrong, and Sainsbury's is right, and I don't think I''ve had 48 bananas before. What shall I do with them? Banana flambee party? EDIT: I had 52 bananas, I'd forgotten about the four already in the fruit bowl.

Comments

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

Build a house out of them! :D

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

A house? I have made a town!


(I don't get out much)

Now to peel the buildings and fry them with brandy and demerara sugar :-)

EDIT: If you imagine very hard, you can read the WELCOME TO BANANATOWN sign

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

The fact that you genuinely have made a bananatown delights me so much I don't think I'll be able to stop grinning FOR A YEAR.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It's great being a grownup, no one can tell you that you can't do things like this :-)

[pjamesharvey.livejournal.com]

Why does no one ever mention the positive aspects of insanity? This is pure excellence.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I think I love you.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

That is the best image I've seen in ages.

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

It's a strange thing. Recently I ordered a bird feeder and got a box of 4 bird feeders. Then this week I ordered 2 x 3 dog balls, making 6 in total. I received 6 x 3 dog balls.

I wonder if someone is secretly testing me.

Anyway, banana flambe sounds ideal. Nom.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I have bananana flambe. Nom. The pan kept relighting, but I think it's stopped now.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

The trick with the word bananananana is knowing when to stop.

[emperor]

Yay, flambe!

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

Chop some into chunks and freeze them. Tomorrow, melt some chocolate and dip the chunks into it, and then refreeze (the chocolate will immediately solidify on the frozen chunks). Voila, banana chocolate ice lollies all ready to eat from the freezer whenever you want.

The banananana flambe party sounds a splendid idea!

Or you could wait until they're going softer and then make lots of banananananana cake.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Or banana bread (my momma's default solution). Perhaps this is Fate's way of urging you to try peanut-butter-and-mashed-banana sandwiches (but not on white bread, nor with fried bananas, even though that's the way Elvis' momma made his).

[adela-terrell.livejournal.com]

I second turning them into banana bread! Nom Nom Nom

John Barrowman's mum's recipe is here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/bananabread_85720.shtml

I kid you not!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Mm, I have chocolate...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

You can take the ones you don't want to eat immediately, or make banana bread with immediately, and pop them in the freezer to make banana bread with later. The skins will turn black, but for purposes of banana bread, this doesn't matter. You can also use the frozen bananas for fruit smoothies later.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Frozen bananas are good, skinned and frozen in a bag you can later eat them like ice lollies/popsicles :-)

[uitlander]

I will happily purchase a bunch of yourexcess bananas if you happen to be coming to the pub tonight. I am all bananaed out and keep forgetting to buy more :-)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm not sufficiently recovered to get to the pub :-(

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Make a VERY large smoothie or the world's longest banana split?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I could take four of them and call them Snorky, Bingo, Fleegle and Drooper.

[ceemage.livejournal.com]

"La la la,
la la la la,
la la la,
la la la laaa..."

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It should involve chocolate.

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

bananas and chocolate in tinfoil on a BBQ!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I'm going to need a bigger BBQ!

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Flambee good!

Also banana bhajias, banana chunks wrapped in bacon and grilled, West Indian banana chutney. mashed banana and crisp sandwiches.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

banana ice-cream :)

[cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com]

Banana wine.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I have a recipe for that. 4lbs peeled bananas and 1/2 a pound of banana skins (+ raisins and stuff). If you want, I could give it a try next week and we could split any drinkable results. (Should make 6 bottles altogether.)

I'm not sure I place much confidence in the recipe though. Sounds a bit icky.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I'm very inclined to try that, as I've never done it before. OTOH it sounds pretty revolting :-)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to wonder about nasty chemical residues on banana peel and whether I want to drink something made out of it. I'm away over the weekend anyway, so let's get in touch after that and see how brave we're feeling--and how many bananas you still have.

[muninnhuginn]

I have a book of interesting (some good, some not so) wine recipes, many of which have bananas as an ingredient, presumably to sort out levels of sweetness. Still have much of the necessary paraphanalia if you feel up to the experiment.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Mix with plain yogurt, fill the bathtub and soak?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I think you need fivemack.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Banoffee pie! :P

I heartily endorse a banana flambee party- dooo eeeeeet! :)

[mgspiller.livejournal.com]

How many bananas?! I heard something somewhere that you could get potassium poisoning from eating too many but a bit of googling reassures me that it's not a problem. Flambé sounds good 2 me :-)

[calatrice.livejournal.com]

Just in case you still have an excess of bananas, the following recipe went down very well today in our house...

Dairy-Free Banana Muffins
(Makes 12 standard-size muffins)

Dry ingredients:
210g plain flour
30g porridge oats
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
half tsp bicarbonate of soda
quarter tsp salt
pinch grated nutmeg

Wet ingredients:
1 egg
150g light brown sugar (or a combination of caster and dark brown sugar, depending on your personal taste - I used 50g dark brown sugar and 100g golden caster)
2, 3, or 4 mashed bananas (depending on size - large, medium or small)
6 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 190°C.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients.
3. In a second bowl, mix all the wet ingredients.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until the dry ingredients are just moistened. Don't keep on mixing until everything is smooth - this will make the muffins tough.
5. Spoon the mixture into a greased muffin tin, or paper cups.
6. Bake for about 18 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.

Once cooked, the muffins should be eaten as soon as possible, or frozen. I love muffins because you can defrost them in a few seconds in the microwave for that instant cake-fix.