{"id":82,"date":"2007-10-07T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-10-07T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:18:19","slug":"what-to-do-with-excess-over-ripen-bananas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/10\/07\/what-to-do-with-excess-over-ripen-bananas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with excess, over-ripen bananas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yang can attest that when it comes to buying groceries, I tend to over-estimate or \u2018over-buy\u2019. Of course, my rationale is \u201cWhat if the thing I need turns out to be insufficient, dear?\u201d. Then we would fuss over the item concerned and I would pull of long, sad face if darling dearest thwart my \u2018plan\u2019. Hee hee.<br \/>\nI love delmonte bananas and \u2018pang(1) chiow(1)\u2019 (short and sweet bananas). Bananas are energy-rich foods plus got good minerals such as potassium ions to help relieve stress, vitamin C to combat diseases and fibre for healthy colon! For those weight-watchers, a diet of bananas and skim milk might help reduce some weight too. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One fine day, I had problems finishing my over-ripen bananas. As I was thinking of ways to be creative in order to minimise wastage of good food, the idea of making banana milk shake popped up. So I went online to do the usual google search for recipes for the beverage and found a few. They are all about the same actually.<\/p>\n<p>With some fresh milk in my refrigerator, ground cinnamon powder, vanilla essence, honey and ice, I was good to go! My first ever banana milk shake.:) I had this blender-cum-ice crusher which I bought a few months ago and could finally put it into good use. The result was a cool, delicious and satisfying health drink which kept me full for the next 2 hours. The recipe for the banana milk shake is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image403\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/blog-bananas.jpg\" alt=\"blog-bananas.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Banana Milk Shake for 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1 large, ripe delmonte banana<\/p>\n<p>300 ml chilled Meiji fresh milk<\/p>\n<p>1 round tbsp honey<\/p>\n<p>Dash of ground cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 tsp vanilla essence<\/p>\n<p>4 ice cubes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Method:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) Blend all ingredients until smooth.<\/p>\n<p>2) Add ice cubes and hit the \u2018crush ice\u2019 button for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>3) Serve in chilled glasses. Optional: Garnish with mint leaves. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Note: If there are still too many bananas left, peel off the skin and place them in a zip-lock bag and keep it in the freezer. Can use them for future banana milk shake or eat them as a cold snack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yang can attest that when it comes to buying groceries, I tend to over-estimate or \u2018over-buy\u2019. Of course, my rationale is \u201cWhat if the thing I need turns out to be insufficient, dear?\u201d. Then we would fuss over the item<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/10\/07\/what-to-do-with-excess-over-ripen-bananas-2\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  What to do with excess, over-ripen bananas?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-dining","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}