One of the best things about living in a tropical climate is
the wonderful fruit... mangoes, melons, papaya, pineapple, coconut (is that a
fruit) and of course an endless supply of bananas. We are lucky to have two
banana palms in our front yard and (with no help from Zack or myself) they have
grown two huge bunches of bananas. Even after giving heaps to Lamin and Isa we
still have a huge supply and for the past week we have been gorging on bananas. It make's me think of the movie Sabrina where Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart are our on the boat and singing... "Yes we have no bananas, we have no bananas today!"
Well we have LOTS of bananas... we have had banana smoothies, frozen banana and yogurt-banana cake - made
with wholemeal flour, sunflower oil, yogurt and a small amount of raw sugar it
tastes delicious but is healthy! I know you don’t believe me that it tastes good but I adapted the recipe from Elisabeth Bard's popular book Lunch in Paris, you can try it yourself. So this week I’m
proudly sharing with you the transition of our bananas from tree to kitchen to
cake. We
still have another big bunch ripening on the tree so any banana recipes would
be greatly appreciated, is there such thing as banana jam? OK well I’m off to
make some more banana cakes, I’ve had to start giving them away!
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| Hanging out on the tree... no idea of what's coming :) |
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| Just a small sample of the bananas we have |
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| Banana-yogurt cake... YUM! |
Do they taste like American supermarket bananas, or are they a different variety? I've read that there are lots of types of bananas, but in the non-tropical world they just sell the one kind they can easily ship. I always wonder what the rest taste like.
ReplyDeleteThe local bananas taste like regular American bananas only better - they are sweeter, it's the same banana flavor but stronger, like when you have a home grown tomato, it's the same but so much better. It's really strange though because they look terrible, really small and skinny and green. They also have other bananas which are short and fat but they have a really chalky texture.
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