I know I said I would grow, cook and eat my way through All Things Herbal. And it truly was my intention to grow all the herbs required for these recipes. But when I said that I was unaware that bananas are herbs. I knew they were pretty cool plants that sort of ‘walk’ (they don’t really ‘walk’ like on two feet, they put up new shoots when the old ones die), but I did not know that they were herbs.
I’m not going to grow bananas. I live in Wellington, New Zealand and bananas don’t grow that far south; it’s just too cold.
I do eat bananas, though, and I can buy them in the shops now while the herbs in my garden are riding out the winter.
They're herbs
I don’t really like mayonnaise, so I approached this recipe with some trepidation. But it seemed easy enough to make, and it was an interesting combination of ingredients.
I thought just getting all the ingredients out of their wrappers and mixing them together would be a bit of cop out, so I did toast my own sesame seeds.
Toasting Seeds
I didn’t make the mayonnaise, but I did squeeze it out of the bottle.
Mayonnaise
And I cut up the bananas …
Sliced bananas
… rolled them in mayonnaise …
Mayonnaise covered banana
.. and covered the whole pile in toasted sesame seeds.
The end product
It was .. okay.
Not great, not something I’d cook again, but also not as bad as I feared.
