Black bananas and the value of fruit
After the great banana shortage of two years ago (this was due to destruction of banana crops in North Easterrn Australia), I thought I would never again take bananas for granted. Fast forward to today and once again I have a whole fruit bowl full of black bananas. I think I will make a banana cake but this only uses 2 or 3 bananas. It really galls me to throw them out even though bananas back to a reasonable price again. Might get some low fat yoghurt and use them to make smoothies. Don't think the kids will drink them though. They are so spoilt - only like smoothies with exotic ingredients like fresh mango. I had never even tasted a mango when I was their age! I had my first mango was in Indonesia at the age of 19. My kids get to eat them by the box load and some of them even go bad and have to be thrown away. The valuing of fruit has really changed in just a few decades. Also remember avocadoes being impossibly exotic when I was a kid. Mum would serve them in halves with seafood in the middle when she had a dinner party.
