Heather's Brown Sugar Banana Bread - A tip and a question
#235697 - 01/04/06 02:39 PM
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Sand
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I wanted to try this because my tummy has been jumpy and it's lower fat than the EFI bread recipes I usually make. Unfortunately, all my bananas were far too yellow. So I used banana baby food instead and it turned out great. I'm looking forward to making it again with real bananas.
Question: A friend of mine throws her black bananas in her freezer, skins and all. Could I do this with my bananas as they ripen, then thaw them and use in this bread?
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#235716 - 01/04/06 03:51 PM
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Kree
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You certainly could! I freeze my black bananas all the time and the bread always comes out great. I take my skin off and then freeze them in a labeled Ziploc freezer bag, but I'm suring leaving the skins on would be fine, too. 
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great idea, My son loves my choc.chip banana bread
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I also freeze black bananas all the time. This is something my mom does too.
My Dad has taken to calling this as purgatory, the freezer being the waystation between bananadom and something even better.
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Yes, you can freeze in skins or out in a freezer bag.
I don't care for Heather's recipe though I like this one:
banana bread yum yum
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I freeze my bananas all the time... my boyfriend would say it's because i buy too many bananas and let them go black - so our freezer is quite full of bananas waiting for me to make them into bread! haha 
banana purgatory...haha i love that!
but i always freeze them in saran wrap or ziploc or a container - you can freeze them right in their skins? And then what, do you just let them thaw out on the counter or can you microwave them for a few seconds...?
thanks! 
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My mom always left them in their skins and let them thaw on the counter until she was ready to use them. It works great and saves on baggies.
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I keep meaning to ask this question, thanks for the thread!
Does anyone have any tricks to make the bananas go blaclk quicker? I get so impatient waiting for mine to blacken!
Also if you can tolerate nuts I usually put a handful of walnuts into the Brown Sugar Banana bread recipe and it really adds to it.
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Thanks! I'm going to start doing that now instead of wasting all my bags and containers
Also, re: making bananas ripen faster... I discovered this by accident, but when I used to store my bananas on top of the fridge they'd go black much quicker, probably from the heat from the fridge's motor. (Of course, I wasn't trying to make them go black but they did, faster than I could eat them! Oh well, more banana bread for me!)
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Put them next to some other ripe fruit (ie: apples, grapes). For some reason, it makes them ripen faster.
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Thanks girls, bought 2 big bags of bananas today, and they are GREEN  so it'll be a while before I get my banana bread
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