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Monday, May 19, 2025

3 Salads Recipes

Salads are delicious, great for spring and summer. We love salads any time of the year. When hot outside we want the oven off. Salads are great for side dish or for lunch. What's your favorite salad? Leave a comment below.

Recipe Here

Until next time,

Christine

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Fruit Salad with Vanilla Yogurt

Did you know the strawberry is a member of the rose family? Common varieties are a hybrid of the wild Virginia strawberry, native to North America. The plant produces red, conical fruit from tiny white flowers, and sends out runners to propagate. Plants can last up to 5 to 6 years with careful cultivation, a lot of farmers use them as an annual crop, replanting every year.

Pan Banana

All widely cultivated bananas today descend from the two wild bananas Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. While the original wild bananas contained large seeds, diploid or polyploid cultivars (some being hybrids) with tiny seeds are preferred for human raw fruit consumption. These are propagated asexually from offshoots. The plant is allowed to produce 2 shoots at a time; a larger one for immediate fruiting and a smaller "sucker" or "follower" to produce fruit in 6–8 months. The life of a banana plantation is 25 years or longer, during which time the individual stools or planting sites may move slightly from their original positions as lateral rhizome formation dictates.

Cultivated bananas are parthenocarpic, which makes them sterile and unable to produce viable seeds. Lacking seeds, propagation typically involves removing and transplanting part of the underground stem (called a corm). Usually this is done by carefully removing a sucker (a vertical shoot that develops from the base of the banana pseudostem) with some roots intact.

However, small sympodial corms, representing not yet elongated suckers, are easier to transplant and can be left out of the ground for up to 2 weeks; they require minimal care and can be shipped in bulk.

It is not necessary to include the corm or root structure to propagate bananas; severed suckers without root material can be propagated in damp sand, although this takes somewhat longer.

In some countries, commercial propagation occurs by means of tissue culture. This method is preferred since it ensures disease-free planting material. When using vegetative parts such as suckers for propagation, there is a risk of transmitting diseases (especially the devastating Panama disease).

By http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#Historical_cultivation

As a non seasonal crop, bananas are available fresh year round.

Pan Banana

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons light brown sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

3 bananas, peeled and sliced

Directions:

In a skillet, melt butter over medium low heat. Once butter has melted, add brown sugar, cinnamon, ground ginger and bananas, Stir gently. Heat through, about 5 to 7 minutes. Serve warm. Enjoy!

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Fruit Cocktail Cake

The story on how this cake came about. I was laying in bed, and I found myself thinking about making fruit cocktail cake. The next day I went to the store and bought the ingredients for the fruit cocktail cake. Shortly after I got home, I started baking the cake. This cake is a hit in my house, just a few hours after I baked the cake it was all gone. There wasn't even a crumb left.

Fruit Cocktail Cake

Ingredients:

1 box white cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)

1 (14.5) can fruit cocktail in heavy syrup, do not discard juice

powdered sugar, for dusting

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 13x9 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Add fruit cocktail and juice to batter. Pour batter in pan. Bake for 30 to 32 minutes. Cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar. Enjoy!

Note: This is a super moist cake.

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