Day-O

10/10 DAY-O

I'm not a morning or breakfast person. Well, in my own way I am - but I need an hour before the world should deal with me - and I firmly believe that breakfast should be taken slow from 10am. However the exhaustion felt at the end of the day has made me rethink unless I want to feel like the soggy brown bananas sitting in my fruit bowl. Daylight comes and I want to stay home.

Bananas should give you all the Josephine Baker energy you need, but there is no way I was going to put that soggy brown thing in my mouth. Luckily I prepared - what even - and froze the bananas the night before with the hope that they'll make the most addictive milkshake. It will bring all the boys to the yard.


Ingredients (all approximate) -

1 frozen Banana (black and large)
200ml milk (well however much to cover the banana)
Cocoa powder (for exoticism)

What I did - 

Make sure that you strip the bananas of their blackened skins and dice them into large pieces, freeze them overnight in a zip lock bag. This should firm up the soft meat and stop the ripening, but remember these cant be defrosted again - only blasted to smithereens in a blender.

Fast forward to the morning, where I know the idea of loud noises is painful but only for a few seconds. Put the frozen pieces in a blender, I hade a huge banana so only used one, if its smaller you could double up. The add milk until the bananas are just submerged then blitz.

They should take only a few seconds before they whir up into a smooth aerated thick-shake. The texture is similar to that if you used ice-cream, the starch in the banana helps thicken the milk and creates the creamy body. I found this Mayan chilli cocoa powder so for the sake of adventure I sprinkled a little on top.

I have a feeling over summer there will be more experiments with different fruits and spices, but as a base this is solid. Now black bananas should keep us all dancing like Josephine.

JG