Anna Blume Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Impulse purchase: a ripe bunch of tiny, yellow-jacketed variety. Ick, ick, super ick! Like eating a plantain raw, I bet. Bet the viper got its name after eating this fruit since your mouth fills with cotton. Anyone cook something more than just edible with this fruit or should I just toss them? And, yes, they really are ripe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaked Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My gf whipped up some banana bread over the weekend, and we always use extremely ripe bananas for that. We follow the recipe out of Joy of Cooking. The Julia Child series Cooking with Master Chefs has a recipe for banana curry http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/2632/julia_child_cooking_with_master/ep:106/episodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monavano Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My gf whipped up some banana bread over the weekend, and we always use extremely ripe bananas for that. We follow the recipe out of Joy of Cooking. The Julia Child series Cooking with Master Chefs has a recipe for banana curry http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/2632/julia_child_cooking_with_master/ep:106/episodes I made this curry. It's easy and delicious. http://houndstoothgourmet.com/a-delicious-slow-cooked-chicken-curry-because-my-pressure-cooker-frightens-me/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lperry Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Impulse purchase: a ripe bunch of tiny, yellow-jacketed variety. Ick, ick, super ick! Like eating a plantain raw, I bet. Bet the viper got its name after eating this fruit since your mouth fills with cotton. Anyone cook something more than just edible with this fruit or should I just toss them? And, yes, they really are ripe! If it's those little "burro" ones that look like little tiny plantains, I found that the skins need to be almost black before they get soft and ripe. Bananas foster or bananas in caramel sauce is always nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 If it's those little "burro" ones that look like little tiny plantains, I found that the skins need to be almost black before they get soft and ripe. Bananas foster or bananas in caramel sauce is always nice. Same with the little red ones--they are sold far from ripeness, and need to sit for a long time until they are soft, before they are sweet and pleasant. Eaten too soon, they are chalky and inedible, as you have discovered. Leave the others in a brown bag with an apple for several days and follow lperry's advice to wait until the skins blacken, and then try eating them. If they are still unpleasant raw, it's time for caramelizing and flambeeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Blume Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 LP & Zora: Duh. Should have figured that something that tasted like a raw plantain must have been a mini-plantain vs. a bananino, making the title of my new thread somewhat misleading. Well, carry on with suggestions for ways to prepare bananas that are a bit more involved than slicing them in half, slathering the slippery surface w peanut butter and dotting that with raisins... Tweaked & Monavano: the curries sound rather cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Blume Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 I know a farmer who is reluctant to purchase bananas for her family, in part because she's become more and more of a locavore over the years. There is also someone else who has caused me to wonder if bananas ought to be what grapes were when I was a kid and willingly gave them up for Chavez. Banana republics. Pablo Neruda's "United Fruit Company" (poem). And playing right now at West End Cinema, "Big Boys Gone Bananas," about Dole successfully preventing the release of a Swedish documentary on its business, citing fraud and libel. Anyone else concerned about bananas? Is it naive to cite just one cheap food in worrying about human suffering linked to its production? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookluvingbabe Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 We really like bananas but I rarely buy them. It may be naive, it may be fruitless (pun not intended) but I feel better knowing I'm at least doing something.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 The hotel I stayed at in Ft. Lauderdale this past weekend had banana palms growing in the courtyard by the pool. Fresh bananas from the tree every morning for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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