Bananas!

We eat a LOT of bananas. I've been reading about some recipes where you freeze ripe bananas and use them to make smoothies, ice cream, and sorbet. The only problem with that is our bananas don't stay around long enough to get ripe! We go through about 3 bunches a week these days. Saturday when we went to Kroger, they had bags of ripe bananas for $.39 per pound. We bought one bag of those and brought them home, peeled them, and put them in the freezer in a ziploc bag. (Well actually, we bought 5 pounds of the ripe ones and then another 6 pounds of some barely yellow and mostly green bananas!)

Tonight, I remembered the ice cream recipe and got out the small food processor. It was just the right size. I took 1 of the frozen bananas, 1/3 c. soymilk, about 1 T. of cocoa and 3 packets of Splenda and whirled it until the bananas were all blended. Actually, the recipe called for 1 tsp of vanilla too but I forgot. What a great treat! It was thick and rich and creamy and gave that whole ice cream "experience". Oh yeah! I can see banana split ice cream, strawberry/banana ice cream, maybe even plain old banana ice cream. And then you could add a little more soymilk and make milkshakes. Maybe water instead of the milk to make sorbet . . . and oh, we found out that Junior Mints are vegan! It would be good to throw a few of those in the mix as well! This could be really good! Hmmmm. Wonder what's next? :)