I will tell you the secret to bananas: A banana muffin recipe. Once bananas are overripe you can still make muffins from them. Once they are really quite overr

I will tell you the secret to bananas: A banana muffin recipe. Once bananas are overripe you can still make muffins from them. Once they are really quite overripe, you can put them in the fridge for several more days, and then you can still make muffins from them. I haven't yet reached the point where I took the overripe bananas, peeled and crushed them, put the crushed banana in containers and froze them, then thawed them two weeks later and made muffins from them... but I bet that would work. Once the muffins are made, they freeze nicely. Thaw them on a plate in the microwave: about 45 seconds per muffin at about power level 40%. The more general secret to small-batch cooking is: Aim to use the freezer. (For example: I have friends who apparently went through decades of life without realizing that bread freezes pretty well -- fresh is better but frozen is not bad. Don't ever let your bread grow stale unless you have the desire to make croutons.)