On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:40:39 -0700, Koko magnanimously proffered:

>>Oh....and put those extra bananas in the freezer. They will turn
>>black but boy, they are good in a month or so after you try all the
>>recipes that are recommended.
>
>I'm not kili, nor do I play her on t.v.
>That's a great idea Ward. I freeze bananas also and use them frozen
>when making smoothies.
>
>Koko

Freeze bananas with their skins removed and they won't turn black
unless they're super ripe.

I opened the first smoothie & juice bar in New Zealand in 1975
(Sunshine Juicebar in Gisborne) and the core ingredients for the
smoothies were bananas, milk and honey.

My partner would go down to the markets and buy the bananas nobody
else wanted and we'd skin them, put them in tupperware-type boxes
and/or ziplock bags and freeze. Then we'd take out a few dozen at a
time and let them thaw a little - just enough for the outside to
become soft - and use them to make smoothies.

That was when milk was around 4 cents a bottle and was real milk and
not reconstituted crap we get today.

To the basic milk, banana & honey, I'd add real vanilla extract or
carob powder or fruit, etc for flavouring. Our top of the line
Smoothie was the "Sunshine Superman" which had two raw eggs, protein
powder, yeast, flavouring ... with instant coffee optional. You'd be
surprised how well it sold to people doing hard physical work and
surfers.



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