A Commonplace Book

Category: bananas...

  • buying an outrageous banana split for your child for making the honor roll
  • the banana's flavor, nutritional value, and availability throughout the year
  • this giant herb, the banana, which springs from an underground stem (rhizome), leading to bunches of 50-150 individual fruits (fingers) grouped in clusters (hands) of 10-20 ~ this happening only once as each plant produces only one bunch of fruit (technically, a berry)
  • In this crazy, mixed up world the banana reigns supreme. (Jules Verne)
  • driving someone bananas, top banana, second banana, banana oil, etc!
  • Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. (Bill Gates)
  • peanut butter-and-banana sandwiches
  • Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas. (Frankie Muniz)
  • In tropical regions where bananas grow in countless varieties, bananas vary widely in appearance and eating qualities.
  • Cooking bananas are called plantains.
  • Avoid totally yellow bananas unless you want them fully ripe; avoid overly green ones, too. If you put them in a paper bag or wrap in newspaper, you can accelerate the ripening process.
  • Sprinkle bananas with ginger or cinnamon, or with brown sugar mixed with lemon or lime juice.
  • The only European country which grows bananas commercially is Iceland, on soil heated by geysers.
  • a great banana cake recipe

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