Go Bananas!

Remember when we showed you our banana tree?

Well a few weeks ago when the mercury starting dropping I panicked about the possibility of losing them and harvested the bunch! (You aren't supposed to let them get too cold.)

It took about a week until they started going a little yellow, then a little more and then they had brown spots on them so I made banana bread and banana chocolate frozen treats. I brought some to work to flog off and even dropped bunches off with friends because I was so worried they were about to go off and be overripe.

I think we jumped in too early though. The middles were kind of tough and they weren't incredibly sweet. We still don't know what variety they were but the flavour was just a bit different than we have come to know and love as banana. As they got more and more brown they got better and sweeter. But by then they were looking pretty sad which is when I started getting rid of them so they got put to use!

Next time we know they last for a long time even though the peel was looking very ripe! I mean they were pretty good but would have been better if we waited longer.

Oh yeah it looks like we're posing in a work-in-progress because Dustin was working hard on the hallway last week and we have revamped one of the closet spaces so far and he's completely re-gibbed the hall and moved the attic access to make it bigger and better. Yay!