Old banana's and an open can of pumpkin...

I'd like to be able to use these items rather than toss them- any ideas?

Mashed bananas on toast is great!  Or you can make banana bread or muffins or cake...

 Pumpkin soup sounds weird but is actually very good, and not sweet. I don't have a recipe at hand, but I believe there is one available on www.drweil.com, or you can google 101 cookbooks.

I would put both in the freezer until you decide what you want to do with them. I.e., there's no rush --  you could make banana bread (or whatever) several months down the road. I've thrown a frozen banana in my smoothies! (BTW, I've frozen both -- do it all the time. Heck, I've probably got about 10 bananas in my freezer right now.)

Thanks ladies, great ideas. I never considered freezing the bananas. I think I will do that and make some pumpkin bread...with whole wheat flour of course!!!

Have a great day.

You can add a can of pumpkin to chocolate or spice  cake mix and bake a cake.  There is a fabulous recipe called pumpkin fluff which  is a combination of either butterscoth/or vanilla SF, FF, pudding and coolwhip lite which is very good.  If you'd like, I'll try to find the recipe for you.  Just send me a notice.......MsLile......and I will get it to you.

you could always put chunks of bananas in your pumpkin bread and use them up all at once.

Yep, using the banana instead of oil.
Or you could make a soup out of the pumpkin and have banana's at dessert.
Would a pumpkin pie with a top layer of banana slices be werid?

Wow, wow, wow!!!
 I need to post my recipie questions up here more often! You all have great ideas.
Can banana really be used instead of oil?
And I think the banana on pumpkin might be yummy.

I ended up finding a recipie on Allrecipies.com for banana pumpkin bread.
I had to cut out half of the sugar and switch to wheat flour to make it diet friendly but it's good.
I was thinking of making french toast with the bread on Sunday...I'll let you all know how it turns out.

Thanks for all the tips, much appreciated!
:)

In some recipes you can use banan. Try and get a recipe which already uses it. In recipes wher the oil is for moistening. I'll find one...
http://www.recipezaar.com/37615 but the bananas arent used for oil, I'll keep looking...
same again, http://www.recipezaar.com/28916

http://www.recipezaar.com/95727 maybe this one

You cant sub bananas unles syou experiment, but what i mean is a lot of low fat recipes use bananas where you would oil (as with applesauce)

should bananas be peeled before freezing?

yes, otherwise it's really hard to peel off the skin when it's frozen

lol ~ i imagine it would be ;)

I guess my concern is freezer burn.  Peeled would be gr8 to use straightup as frozen in smoothies, but would probably need to be thawed before using as an ingredient in baking recipes like muffins or bread...

I freeze bananas that are getting too ripe with the skin on for protection from freezer burn, and because they do not need to be bagged that way.  The skin turns black, but the flesh inside stays fresh.  Just zap in the microwave for 15 seconds or so and the skin slips right off.  Great for cooking and smoothies! 

You can do it either way but it is hard when you unpeel. I wear gloves and cut and 'peel'. 

what about like a sweet potato/ pumpkin / banana pie

I watched an episode of Good Eats on bananas the other day. Alton mentioned that if you want to make something mushy (he was making banana ice cream) you are supposed to freeze and thaw the bananas. He froze them with the skin on and after thawing, it was no big deal. But, it should be noted that if you thaw them, per Alton, they will be mushy. If you want them less mushy, then you need use them before they thaw completely.

This is the BEST recipe for banana bread I've ever had. I make it at Christmas for my friends, who never suspect it's from Cooking Light, and it never lasts long in my house. 187 calories per piece, great for a dessert.

Jamaican Banana Bread:

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