{"id":16612,"date":"2012-06-24T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=16612"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:33:15","slug":"yummy-toddler-foods-banana-strawberry-popsicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/06\/24\/yummy-toddler-foods-banana-strawberry-popsicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Toddler Foods: Banana-Strawberry Popsicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argh, sour strawberries. <em>*<\/em>sian*<\/p>\n<p>Recently, my FIL bought Hannah a large box of humongous strawberries which, he was told, were sweet. <em>Kenna<\/em> conned! Sigh. So many sour strawberries sitting in the fridge! It would be such a waste to dump them. I recalled seeing Mcdonalds&#8217; latest range of fruit smoothies and they have a combination of banana and strawberry smoothie. Yup, I&#8217;d make popsicles using banana to impart sweetness to the sour strawberries while the latter could contribute its fragrance. A solution then!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16616\" title=\"banana strawberry popsicle 1 blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-1-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-1-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-1-blog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recipe I came up with is basically for a milkshake. However, I reduced the amount of milk used so that the banana and strawberry taste would not be diluted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bananas &#8211; 2 medium ripe, peeled<\/li>\n<li>Strawberries &#8211; 2 huge or 4 small, stalk and leaves removed<\/li>\n<li>Fresh milk &#8211; 40 ml (estimated amount as I didn&#8217;t measure)<\/li>\n<li>Organic honey &#8211; 1 tbsp (omit honey if the strawberries are sweet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Blend all ingredients until smooth. Do taste check. Pour into popsicle moulds, cover and freeze for at least 8 hours.<\/li>\n<li>To take out the popsicles, dip the moulds into warm water for about 10 seconds. They should come out quite easily when removed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I had some popsicle mixture leftover and stirred in more cold milk to make it into a banana-strawberry milk for Hannah. It turned out to be a cool, delicious drink on a hot, humid afternoon. She loved it! :D Could have made a milkshake but our girl didn&#8217;t like foamy drinks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16617\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16617\" title=\"banana strawberry popsicle 2 blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-2-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-2-blog.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-2-blog-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah is hooked on this flavour :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argh, sour strawberries. *sian* Recently, my FIL bought Hannah a large box of humongous strawberries which, he was told, were sweet. Kenna conned! Sigh. So many sour strawberries sitting in the fridge! It would be such a waste to dump<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/06\/24\/yummy-toddler-foods-banana-strawberry-popsicle\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yummy Toddler Foods: Banana-Strawberry Popsicle<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,479,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","category-baby-recipes","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-479-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/banana-strawberry-popsicle-1-blog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}