Bananas
We got our first bunch of ripe bananas. They were actually from
one of the neighbor's farm. Ours are almost ripe, maybe another couple
weeks. The neighbor, Manny, has a much larger banana grove.
He told me to help myself. The bananas were too high to reach and
I wasn't sure how to get them down. Manny just pushed and pulled
until the entire tree fell over. Once established, banana trees
grow like weeds so he always just knocks an entire tree over whenever
he wants some bananas.
In the picture, I'm actually holding the bananas upside down. The
"flower" in my left hand hangs down while the bananas curve up towards
the sky. I was hoping fresh bananas would be something special
but these were about the same as any banana you can buy at the grocery
store. Of course, these are free and we have more than we can
possibly eat.
Valerie has been looking up recipes for bananas, avocados, papayas,
banana splits, fruit smoothies and guacamole. Some of the more
exotic recipes are avocado pie (surprisingly good), banana toffee,
Polynesian chicken (we have the papayas and oranges but we don't have
our own chickens yet), papaya-avocado salad, papaya-pineapple jam and
banana wine. If you have a favorite recipe that uses bananas,
avocados, papayas, pineapples, oranges, limes or, let's not forget,
coffee or macadamia nuts, please send it to us.
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We got our first bunch of ripe bananas. They were actually from
one of the neighbor's farm. Ours are almost ripe, maybe another couple
weeks. The neighbor, Manny, has a much larger banana grove.
He told me to help myself. The bananas were too high to reach and
I wasn't sure how to get them down. Manny just pushed and pulled
until the entire tree fell over. Once established, banana trees
grow like weeds so he always just knocks an entire tree over whenever
he wants some bananas.
