We bought our house in Kaaawa in May 1988, and for a while lived part-time in our townhouse mauka of Kahala Mall, while spending weekends in Kaaawa.
There was a whole banana patch along one side of the house which was pretty prolific. Here’s a crop harvested in November 1988.
We had plenty of bananas for years, at least until the arrival of the bunchy top virus. It infected all of our banana plants, and we had to cut them all down. It was years before we were successful in growing bananas again, but bunchy top is still a threat in the area.
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That is a bumper crop of bananas. I like that you put them under your house. I can only imagine the recipes you must have created to use what you didn’t give away.
I really didn’t create any new recipes. We just end up eating bananas for breakfast or snacks, cooked bananas with our dinners in place of potatoes or rice, fried bananas for dessert, etc., etc. I haven’t gotten into baking banana bread or such things. Maybe I’ll have to reconsider that one of these days.