Banana Jam

@allknowing (135329)
India
April 6, 2013 2:01am CST
I am no good at making halwa or toffee that requires precise amount of heating. I either over do it or it is under done. I had a banana bunch and all the bananas were getting ripe all at once. Knowing that I am no good in making halwa a brainwave struck me and I decided to make banana jam instead. My banana jam is ready. Have you had any innovative ideas that came about because of your inefficiency?. Do share.
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10 responses
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
7 Apr 13
I love bananas... bit have never tried bananna jam. I bet its real good.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
8 Apr 13
I also would love to taste the banana jam.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
7 Apr 13
You appear to be fond of cooking. Have you at any time produced something totally different and yet palatable because of your blunder?
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• Mexico
7 Apr 13
Yes I have.. but never ever thought of something like bananna jam. I want some now !!!
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@cttolledo (5454)
• Legaspi, Philippines
7 Apr 13
I do sometimes innovative cooking, it happens when I have no concrete ingredients for one recipe , so i used to mix match it and creat a different menu.. ( unknown menu).. I don't mind what it should be called, what really matters to me is the taste ..LOL
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@allknowing (135329)
• India
7 Apr 13
I was more interested in knowing how you took care of your blunders and yet came out with something exotic!
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
8 Apr 13
I have not tried banana jams, but I think most probably it must be tasting very good. I think it is good to have innovative ideas when it comes to various recipes.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
8 Apr 13
What innovative ideas have you had because of your blunders in the kitchen?
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
7 Apr 13
I had to think hard about this one. The only thing that comes to mind was years ago, whilst on our farm, I forgot to give all the boxes of tomatoes to the person to take to seel at the market on our behalf. There was no internet but I did find an old lady who tols me how to make ketchup and I made loads of that plus a few gallons of tomato sauce so that the tomatoes were not spoiled. I have made banana jam with pineapple but that was yonks years ago
@allknowing (135329)
• India
7 Apr 13
Were you able to sell that stuff? Banana and pineapple seems a good combination. I shall try it out next time. Pineapples grow in my garden one or two at a time. This banana bunch was also from my garden.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
6 Apr 13
Ah, my favorite dish of today is the outcome of my inefficiency! In 2008 when I was just restarting to walk again, I had invited my parents over dinner and wanted to cook all by myself. I knew that my bro and his kid loved chowmein(noodles) and my mom and sister in law loved fried rice. So I was preparing both the dishes. Somewhere, I started feeling bad and ill again. And as I had strictly asked my beloved wife not to assist me she was doing her studies (she was preparing for her MTech entrance those days) and so I did not want to disturb her either. So what I did was - a mix of noodles and rice along with all the additional stuff - the vegetables, the chicken into one dish. I was at the start unhappy that I could not deliver what I had planned, but then, when they all relished the stuff which was prepared, and I too loved that taste, I thought, why not convert it into a regular diet for me Much Later, I found that this was not something out of the world that I did and there were restaurants serving this kind of dish though the servings were different. Today, I enjoy this dish (mix) at least once a week if not more. It is also easy to prepare as I always have something or the other as leftovers these days and there are many days when I dont want to cook everything just for me.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
6 Apr 13
Wow!! This is the kind of response I was hoping for. Because of our inefficiency many a time something new and better crops up and you have amply proved it and to think that such a recipe in fact exists in big restaurant that is the icing on the cake! The idea of making banana jam was because I never have the patience to make halva. I prepared this jam this morning and it has turned out yummy.
• Japan
7 Apr 13
I cant cook at all, i admire people who can cook :) they are just too awesome, in my family im the only one who dont know how to know LOL :D
@allknowing (135329)
• India
7 Apr 13
That does not augur well for you as everyone these days must equip themselves with the knack of cooking. I suggest that you start making tea or coffee and that is how I began.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
6 Apr 13
I m a very good and innovative cook. There have many such occasions where I serve 'MAKE SHIFT' dishes and I am told they are great. There are so many occasions of inefficiency and dishes that I really need to rack my brains to recall and share.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
6 Apr 13
Would you like to share atleast one of your several dishes that came about because of your inefficiency!
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@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
6 Apr 13
Hi, You can make halwa of banana by adding some boiled potatoes. It tastes very delicious. My wife learned this from her student Puja. I like that halwa very much.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
6 Apr 13
You have not followed my topic. What I have said there is because I have no patience I made jam and whether because of your inefficiency whether you too have produced anything.
• Philippines
6 Apr 13
Yesterday i also made a jam which is made of kalamansi. Haha my mom and sis tried it and said its a bit sour. Maybe i placed to much kalamansi.
@allknowing (135329)
• India
6 Apr 13
Were you also trying to make something else out of it and because you were not good and so you made jam?
• Philippines
6 Apr 13
Yesterday i also made a jam which is made of kalamansi. I got bored that's why i tried to make some. My sister said its a bit sour. I guess i placed too much kalamansi. By the way how's your jam?