All Go 'splody

[gonzai]

Saturday is the annual Balticon after-party/picnic, and Sunday is Alphabet Soup. I haven't cooked for Soup yet, and my banana bread is very much in demand at the Balticon shindig, so a couple weeks back I bought a half dozen bananas and set them out to ripen. They need to be brown for banana bread.

Well, Mom decided they were TOO brown and put them in the fridge. On the edge. Balanced against the door. Yeah, you know what happened. Or maybe not. Did you know that ripe bananas explode when they hit the floor? The kitchen was a mashed banana party. The good thing about having dogs is they'll happily help clean up the floor. But there's no way I can get ripe bananas in the next two days, so I have to figure out something else to make in a hurry.

(Come to think of it, given the present hot and humid weather...and banana bread requiring the oven...maybe my mother actually had a plan when she put the bananas on the edge...)

Comments

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

How's your repertoire of chilled soups? (Makes sense given both weather and name of event)..

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

My cooking repetoire is...limited. The banana bread is so popular I rarely make anything else (Mom's in the same situation with deviled eggs.) Right now I'm eyeballing a seafood/pasta salad recipe.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

If you have a stick blender, gazpacho is easy.

Guacamole and chips is another easy one.

[davidoflondon.livejournal.com]

On the plus side ample time to make a new batch of Banana Bread and mail it to all the nice people on your LJ friends list :)

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

Not a bad idea, except somehow I doubt the banana bread would survive a transatlantic trip :)