Banana Crisps?

Because I have high blood pressure - for most of my life - I need to eat food with potassium. That was proven many years ago when I was taking a diuretic that flattened out my potassium - not a good thing. The prescription was changed to a combination of pills along with a diuretic every 5-6 days. Since then a banana every evening has become a habit. But these days getting fresh fruit is a challenge because we don’t go to the grocery store. We’ve been ordering the groceries on line and having them delivered in and it’s been difficult getting consistent times. This week we ended up with an excess of bananas that became too mushy to eat. My husband looked around for some recipes and came up with banana crisps. We don’t even own a cake pan to even think about making banana bread. So this morning I could hear him chopping up the bananas, then putting them on the cookie sheet, and then in to the oven for ninety minutes at 250 degrees. Neither one of us has tried them yet. I hope they are somehow edible? 

The Banana Experiment

It doesn't matter where you live to comment about bananas. The only difference is that when we lived in Milwaukee, Facebook didn't exist yet. Since we moved to DC, Facebook is another way to stay in touch, so we check it out routinely for all the goings on. Every once in a while someone will put a tip about food items, recipes, or otherwise. We tried the recipe for unstuffed cabbage and really liked it. The idea about keeping bananas fresh intrigued us, so we thought we would give it a try. We haven't had a lot of luck with bananas after a couple days. It doesn't seem to matter about the brand, or the place we get them - they just start getting soft and mushy. So, according to the instructions, we got some Saran Wrap and wrapped the stem to keep it air tight. We have had two different bunches from two different places. And even though we might be hoping for a good result, it seems like there actually is a good result. Since using this technique for the last two weeks, the bananas have kept fresh longer. Even though there are brown spots on the peel, there are less brown spots on the inside and the bananas stayed firm. Facebook can be very annoying some times. But for this I'll make an exception.