Bananas!!!

We finally harvested our first bunch of bananas! We have about six banana trees in our garden and one bunch was ready to chop down. After we cut it off at the stem, we hung it from a rope on our porch to let them ripen. As part of chopping them down, we learned that if you get any of the juice from the stem on your clothes, it will permanantly stain them!

We are going to have to get creative to use so many bananas in a short amount of time. They will ripen really fast and all at once. Banana bread, banana cookies, banana slices in our pancakes and pudding will all be on the menu for a while.

Anyone have any other banana recipes you would be able to share?

Here is our bunch of bananas!

This is another bunch of bananas as they are developing. The tear-drop looking thing is a bright purplish color. Very beautiful.

Another bunch of bananas.

A fun mask that a guard friend of ours (Giama) made for the kids. It's a piece of the strong bamboo tree near our house.