Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumWhat would you do with hundreds of bananas? I have 6 more bunches still on the trees.

Ocelot II
(129,736 posts)You can freeze banana bread.
displacedvermoter
(4,185 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,123 posts)Just freeze em and whip em up.
SheltieLover
(78,284 posts)Can you gift then to schools, homeless shelters, food pantries, or neighbors?
sinkingfeeling
(57,487 posts)in two to fit in my banana cage. The cage is necessary to prevent critters from eating them. I frozen several dozen from an earlier bunch and now have loaves of frozen banana bread.
SheltieLover
(78,284 posts)Maybe feed them to the critters?
sinkingfeeling
(57,487 posts)to the house to get them.
SheltieLover
(78,284 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,487 posts)SheltieLover
(78,284 posts)Nice gardner!
Thx for sharing.
SheltieLover
(78,284 posts)What do the locals do with so many?
snowybirdie
(6,607 posts)To a food bank. They get so little fresh fruit
sinkingfeeling
(57,487 posts)justaprogressive
(6,611 posts)Starch (slow sugar) Potassium. a great foodstuff for the hungry!
patphil
(8,841 posts)pandr32
(13,950 posts)Here in Hawaii we often have more from our trees than we can use. We share with our community.
Also--try banana nut pancakes for breakfast with maple syrup. One of my husband's favorites.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Gallons and gallons of smoothies
fargone
(571 posts)...headed for Scranton, Pennsylvania
eppur_se_muova
(41,324 posts)What India was drinking for centuries before 'smoothies' were a thing. As kids we made banana milkshakes from 1 banana, 1 egg (not really necessary), 1 T sugar, 1 t vanilla extract, 1 pt milk in a mixer or blender. Maybe you could up the count on the banana(s).
As someone suggested above, freeze any that get too old, then make "ice cream" from them. Add chocolate, strawberries, whatever you want. You can even use sour fruit, which would curdle milk but should be fine w/bananas.
2naSalit
(100,999 posts)As many dehydrated 'chips' as possible and also 'banana mash' and freeze that for other stuff, you can use it as a base for pancakes and such. You've already done the other things I could think of for bananas.
in2herbs
(4,345 posts)Emile
(41,402 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,791 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(1,739 posts)
so Id probably slice them and dry up a shit ton of banana chipswhich can be rehydrated to use in lots of things besides snacking on the banana chips.
Youre so lucky to have them growing! Ive got tons in our yard but were apparently missing a male tree because we get blooms and no fruit on any of them.
