Entries tagged with 'bananas'
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I Lurve Bananas. [Flickr: ian_ransley] After avoiding bananas for much of the past forty years because my mother once told me they are too fattening, I have come to embrace my inner banana. Bruised or unbruised, perfectly ripe or ripe enough, bananas have actually played a key role in my serious diet. Why have I become a banana-come-lately? Because a perfectly ripe banana is almost as creamy and sweet as a bowl of ice cream. I usually have at least two bananas a day. Sometimes I buy a whole bunch of unripe bananas at Fairway, let them ripen, then have one for breakfast with exactly one tablespoon of peanut butter. With my newfound peanut butter discipline I can actually do...
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[Flickr: PKDan] It's a topic that had us thinking at Serious Eats headquarters today. Our reactions: Ed: "This question has always vexed me: Am I supposed to, and is it even OK to eat the bruised, discolored parts of the banana? I usually cut them out, as I did this morning. But occasionally I just power through the banana, brown areas included. I do draw the line at blackened banana. If it's black all the way through it's definitely headed for the trash." Alaina: "I don't eat the bruises. I cut around them. Maybe I should invest in one of those banana carriers?" Adam: "If it's just a bit of a mild brown spot, not much bigger than a...
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Don't let that banana peel go to waste! From Re-Nest comes 7 Ways to Reuse a Banana Peel....
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Photograph from on Flickr Banana death by human is your typical chew-and-swallow method, but when you get green birds involved, it becomes a little uglier. This hungry one decided to dissect the banana midsection, or the bananular belly in technical terms. Maybe bananas are like pigs and all the tender, succulent meat is hiding in the belly region? Related Photo of the Day: Individually-Wrapped Bananas, Freaking Us Out In Videos: Stacking Food on Animals Cute Paintings of Animals Eating Food...
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This isn't necessarily new (the idea, I mean; the video, which appears after the jump, starting making the rounds yesterday), but ... does anyone else peel their bananas that way?...
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You can't call yourself a true banana lover unless you're a member of the International Banana Club. Ken Bannister, T.B. ("Top Banana"), real estate agent, and creator of the International Banana Club, started collecting banana-related paraphernalia in 1972. He now has "the world's largest collection devoted to any one fruit," located in Hesperia, California. I want to join the club just so I can whip an International Banana Club Card out of my wallet whenever I feel like it. Watch the video after the jump....
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Photograph by Laser Bread on Flickr Shattered Banana Peel is just one of many shattered non-shatterable objects in artist Brock Davis's set, Make Something Cool Every Day. [via It's Nice That] Related Photo of the Day: Banana Wall Exploding Banana Head Performance Art...
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"It's Nannerpus!!!" It's...what? If I had watched the Super Bowl then I would've seen this Denny's commercial at the appropriate time, like before they gave away their advertised free Grand Slam breakfasts on February 3. But better late than never, as it took me about two seconds to fall in love with the eight-legged, mustachioed, pancake-loving banana. And even if the commercial is outdated, Nannerpus lives on at nannerpus.com, Twitter, and Deviant Art. Watch the video after the jump....
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Aun Koh's blog may be called Chubby Hubby, but this week a more appropriate title would have been "chunky monkey." When, after a few weeks of testing, his wife, S., had finally perfected her banana cake recipe, she still had a stockpile of bananas reminiscent of "a gorilla about to face a harsh winter." She incorporated the bananas into banana ice cream and sandwiched them between little brownie cookies, which Aun dubbed "crownies." The results were little treats that could satisfy King Kong's sweet tooth....
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Photograph by .mands. on Flickr Fewer Japanese people can get skinny these days. With bananas the hot new diet trend, it's hard to keep them stocked. Over the last year, the Japanese division of Dole has increased shipments by 25-percent, but still fails to keep up. The Banana Diet regimen includes: a raw banana and glass of room-temperature water for breakfast, then basically anything thereafter, except sweets and limited alcohol. Once Asian celebrities started endorsing the banana diet, the yellow fruit got hot. If you're eating a banana right now, you're probably not in Japan....
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