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For CMMC Fruit prompt
After a year, my new crop of bananas was finally ripe and ready to be cut off the bunch. I ended up carrying 34 pounds of bananas up to the house in two trips. This yielded 12 gallon bags full of sliced bananas to freeze for smoothies and banana bread. That filled up a 16X8X11 inch space in my freezer. See proof of my labors below. Click on photos to enlarge and read captions. Forgottenman insisted you’d be interested in this. I had my reservations, but I usually comply with requests, so here is the proof of my day’s labors.
For Cee’s FOTD
Papaya and banana smoothie blended with bran, almonds, Psyllium, ground flax seed, chia, green apple soy milk and ice. I’ve had a variation of this smoothie every morning for at least 25 years.
Bananas for Bananas
The ubiquitous banana is long and smooth and yellow—
subtly curving inward, its flavor round and mellow.
In the jungle you can find it in a monkey’s hand,
but when you find it in the market, Chiquita is its brand.
The denizen of smoothies , or dipped in chocolate,
with a banana in your mouth, you will not talk a lot.
You’ll chew and you will savor, perchance to moan and drool.
If you don’t like bananas, you’re a culinary fool.
You can find one that is yellow and pick it from the bunch,
add berries and papaya and savor it for lunch,
but a real banana purist just picks one out and peels it,
then gobbles it up fast before somebody steals it!
This is the state of my banana tree. About time to pick the bunch and hang it up to wait for them to finish ripening.
The NaPoWriMo prompt today is to write about fruit.
I couldn’t resist slipping this delicious mango flower into my FOTD post!
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
I love this photo of the inside of a papaya I bought here in Sikeston, MO. It was not only full of potential flowers, protected by a perfect star, but also gave a hint of the flowers to come in the dark outline of a flower that surrounded the star. Nature is incredible in its plans and artistry.
This is a photo of a real bloom from my papaya tree in Mexico.
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