And I sent him for spuds!
Any recipes?
I'd share them round but I don't think they post.
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15 over-ripe bananas
Go to the forums on www.moneysavingexpert.com and do a search for banana cake. Loads of recipes for bananas come up. There is even a thread on uses for bananas...
One recipe that I got from there has become a favourite: Banana Cake 3oz butter 4oz demerara sugar 1/2 lb mashed bananas 6oz self raising flour 2 small eggs pinch of salt 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon use the creaming method, put in a 2 1/2 pint loaf tin at 180 degrees centigrade for 1 hr 10 mins This is for muffins and uses slightly different proportions: Banana Muffins 225g self raising flour 100g butter 85g castor sugar 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp ground cinnamon 170ml milk a pinch of salt grated zest of 1 lemon 2 bananas Heat oven to 200°C or Gas Mark 6. Grease 12 muffin tins with butter or place 12 muffin cake cases in a tin. Melt the butter and leave to cool. Sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar and lemon zest. Mash the banana with a fork and add to the flour. Lightly beat the melted butter and milk together and add to the flour. Add the eggs and stir until just mixed, do not over beat. Divide the mixture between the tins or cases. Bake in the centre of the oven for 25 minutes, leave in the tins for 5 minutes then place on a wire rack to cool.
sharon the chauffeur - off the top off my head I think a small egg would be somewhere about 50-55g and a medium egg 60-65g.
Maybe someone can correct me if I've got it totally wrong. But I can recommend the first recipe for banana cake in my post above. Even my husband likes it and he won't eat bananas. I sometimes put a spoonful of sunflower seeds in the cake and that is good too.
Bananas which are not fully ripe can be frozen , without their skins, wrapped separately in cling film. Freeze solid , then take out and eat like an ice cream. this idea is from a weight watcher book. they are rather scrummy and better for you than ice cream! Though I still like a 99
 I have actually used over ripe bananas and they were fine, probably sweeter too.Looove chucks!
Could do with some of those - kids on a lolly making mission - mash bananas, mix with natural yougurt and a little honey and freeze into lollies.
When the ice-cream van comes down the street (every night, before tea) and all the neighbours run out my kids don't feel at all left out as we are all ready with cheap, healthy frozen snack to eat after tea time.  We really should move to the middle of a field somewhere, but having grown up (miserable) in the middle of a field where the ice-cream man never came, I bought a house surrounded by more houses  complete with ice-cream van that I won't buy anything from.
Effie " -zere isn't much to do 'ere, unless you like cooking and chickens!"
Banana & walnut creme
4 ripe bananas 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3oz sugar 2oz walnut halves 1/4 pint single cream 1/4 pint double cream For decoration: 1 large banana 1 tablespoon lemon juice 4 walnut halves Mash 4 bananas with a fork. Blend in the lemon juice & sugar. Chop the walnuts & add to the banana mix. Lightly whip the single & double cream & fold into the banana & walnut mixture. Turn into 4 glass dishes. Cut the other banana into thin slices & sprinkle with lemon juice. Arrnage the slices decoratively on the top of the banana/walnut/cream mix & top with a walnut half. Serves 4.
Today's front page of the BBC good food website has a walnut, date and honey cake which contains two mashed bananas.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1323 ... honey-cake With all these ideas and recipes and wine and the freezer, you must have used up those bananas by now! When I was very little (looong loooong ago), a favourite treat was a banana mashed up with a spoonful of sugar and a dollop of milk and eaten with a little teaspoon (coffee spoon?). The promise of that treat was enough to have me on my best behaviour for ages. |
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