Just when I think I’ve run out of things to say, something like this comes along.  First, some background.  I was talking to my sister, lo so many eons ago, and she gave me a great tip – you can freeze those bananas that have started to go bad.  Now, I’m not sure why I needed this tip at that time  – why was I buying so many bananas, and why were they going bad?  Now, it seems, between Al and Andy and me, we can’t keep enough bananas in the house.

Apparently back then this tip was welcomed with great fanfare and before you know it I had a stash of bananas in the freezer.  Then it occurred to me – uh, now what?  I had 25 frozen overripe bananas in my freezer – what was I supposed to do with them? Every time I opened the freezer door bananas would fall out.  They’d get in the way of things I was trying to put into the freezer – bananas don’t stack well and generally speaking frozen ones seem to move around independently of human intervention.  I’d put them in the shelf on the freezer door, and they’d be skulking just behind the door waiting to ambush me when I opened it.  Or they’d hide deep in the freezer so that you couldn’t move the neat stack of freezable storage containers into the corner.  After one such episode of wrestling with frozen bananas, I got giggling so hard I called my sister and demanded to know why she had told me this “tip.”  Was this some kind of adult sibling rivalry thing or what? After we regained our composure we realized that except for banana bread and the chocolate dipped frozen banana treat (I never did get the hang of that) there probably wasn’t much point.  I quit saving bananas.

Until now.  Dateline May 13, 2011 (holey moley it’s Friday the 13th – stay away from creepy abandoned houses and weird looking guys with knives today):  I open my Facebook and one of my sons has posted this article link: How To Make Ice Cream With Just One Ingredient.  Ok, I’ll bite.

Bananas.  Freeze em.  Whirl em up in the blender.  Rich creamy ice cream.  Of course right now I’m out of bananas (a fact that starts my day off with annoyance as I grab for my daily cereal banana).  The author states you can add stuff if you want – honey, chocolate – for a two ingredient ice cream.  I’m definitely going to try it.  It cracked me up, though, that the article said that she found out about this when – are you ready? – her SISTER called her and told her she’d been freezing bananas and then pureeing them into ice cream.

Jan, you’re the older sibling.  You’re supposed to have the skinny (har har har) on this stuff.  You know that the number one tenet in the Horton Family Code of Honor  is “a day without ice cream is not worth living.”  HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THIS?

I can’t wait to try this. I have been watching my fat intake (yes it’s working, thank you very much for noticing – that and my addiction to WiiFit) and ice cream deprivation is my biggest bummer. Bananas are not exactly lo cal come to think of it – one large is 135 cal – but it’s better to have bananas lying around the freezer than a tub of vanilla ice cream, which can turn my self control into soft creamy frozen confection  with one spoonful.

I’ll let you know how it goes…