feeling a little banana buttery

I posted the question: Can anyone think of something other than banana bread to make with 3 overripe bananas? to my www.bentobloggersandfriends.blogspot.com and they all came back with some pretty good ideas!

• Cupcakes, cookies, waffles and pancakes from www.ipacklunch.com
• Smoothies were mentioned by a few...including one apparently blogless member of the group...how did I not know she didn't have a blog?!
• Freeze them or use them in place of oil in baking recipies as per www.bitingthehandthatfeedsyou.net
• www.keeleymcguire.blogspot.com says you can even sub bananas for eggs in recipes too...she should know since she's an allergy mom!
• Crystals Ramblings uses them for banana chocolate chip muffins.

I decided to go with banana butter, which I ended up finding on a rather old looking web page through Google.  The original recipe can be found here: http://www.hugs.org/Banana_Butter.shtml

This is my adapted recipe...as I only had 3 bananas and no pumpkin pie spice...

Banana Butter
3 lg Bananas; ripe and sliced
3 tb Lemon juice
1 1/2 c Sugar
1 ts cinnamon

Process bananas and lemon juice until smooth; (i did this all in my saucepan...super lazy!)
transfer to a saucepan. Stir in sugar and spice;
bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring,
15 minutes. Serve on toast, etc. Store in
refrigerator.

My little lunchys are sick today...so a little warm banana butter on some mini bagels was just enough.

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