Got to Use Our Home Grown Bananas

Husband treats our banana trees like his babies. He keeps them fed and watered, and when the time is right covers the bunches with plastic bags to keep the birds from gorging on their sweet fingers before we get to eat them.

When they are ripe we have more bananas than we know what to do with, and I am instructed to use them however I can, while he does his bit by having bananas mashed with lemon juice on toast for lunch each day.

They are a finger bananas and I am unsure what breed exactly. Many people are surprised we can grow and eat our own bananas in Auckland being a temperate rather than a tropical climate. We have had bananas in a precious garden not far away but they never ripened as well as these do. These are fat little finger bananas with a lovely flavour.

I made the Seriously Good Banana and Walnut Cake to satisfy husband I was using his treasures. It took about 12 bananas for this recipe , but there are still a heap more to be used up. At the moment we are giving them away when we can.