Banananas + Ginger root = ?

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  1. clueless1

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    For some reason I'm craving banananas and ginger together. Possibly pineapple too.

    I have these things in the house.

    Any ideas?

    I wondered if its possible to make a sort of ginger caramel, and coat bananana pieces with it? Or something else?
     
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    Sounds as if your anti-biotics are depleting you a bit. A fruit and ginger smoothie might be the answer.
     
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      You could whack them in a sponge mix...cor bet it's nice with custard:thumbsup: (not sure about the pineapple though)
       
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        Here's what I did (and it literally only took a few minutes).

        I finely chopped a nana. Then I chucked a tablespoon of butter, two of sugar, and a couple of level tablespoons of water (well you can't have a heaped tablespoon of water can you) into a sauce pan, along with about a cubic inch of finely chopped ginger root, and melted it all down and kept stirring it til it looked like caramel. Then in went the chopped up nana, and I just kept it moving for a few seconds to get a good coating on the nana pieces.

        Dished it up into 3 bowls (didn't want to risk it on the tiny lad, so some each for me, wife and big lad).

        CL1,1 didn't like it one bit. I think because the ginger was too string.
        Wife hasn't tried it yet because she's busy feeding tiny lad.
        I loved it. It was absolutely delicious. I'll definitely be making that again. It was a tiny bit sickly so couldn't eat it in any quantity, but I reckon it would go lovely with a bit of ice cream.
         
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        • Lolimac

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          Nice one Clueless,I'll be giving that a go,sounds perfect for icecream:thumbsup:
           
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            Wife didn't like it either, so with 2 out of 3 of us finding it horrible, I'm wondering if it might actually be horrible but I enjoyed because my tastes buds have gone mad, or my body is screaming out for whatever vitamins, minerals or compounds happen to exist in that combination.
             
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            I'll still give it a go and then if it's horrible I know who to blame:biggrin:
             
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              If you have a garlic press maybe you could roughly chop the ginger and squeeze the juice out of it next time discarding the pulp. Not sure whether I would use the juice on the nanas (as a marinade) or add it to the syrup though.
               
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                Are you pregnant?? :scratch:
                 
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