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“If you don’t know what to do with a fruit, think of a cocktail”. Henceforward this will be my motto. After the successful Passionfruit Daiquiri<\/a> and then the fabulous Kiwi with Rum<\/a> I decided to follow this idea with slightly overripe bananas. They might of course be used in breads, cakes or pancakes, but I wanted something lighter and, moreover, it was Friday night and… cocktail time!<\/p>\n I decided to start with rum, which somehow seemed obvious. Then I added some lime juice to give it a bit of tanginess, mixed everything, tasted and… realised\u00a0 I have already had this cocktail! In fact, banana and rum used to be my favourite cocktail in my favourite bar, but it was many years ago. I still remember it wasn’t on the cocktails list and when I got bored with gin and tonic I asked the bartender to mix rum with banana juice. The result was stunning and I used to have this cocktail every single time I came. Then, the owner stopped buying banana juice, the bar’s atmosphere changed, I stopped going there and completely forgot about the cocktail because no other bar had this juice. Now that I was reminded how good it tastes, especially when made with freshly mixed fruit, I think this will be my favourite way to use up leftover bananas. TIP: If you make this cocktail with bottled banana juice, the colour will be much more attractive and the texture “juicier”. Bananas mixed with water give a thick, smoothie-like, not very attractive looking liquid, but the taste and aroma are unique. <\/span><\/p>\n Special equipment<\/em>: small, baby-food mixers are very useful with fresh fruit cocktails (especially when making one or two servings)<\/em> Preparation: 5 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n Ingredients (serves one):<\/em><\/p>\n 1 big peeled banana<\/em><\/p>\n juice from 1\/3 lime<\/em><\/p>\n 50 ml rum<\/em><\/p>\n 50 ml cold water<\/em><\/p>\n ice<\/em><\/p>\n In a blender (or a baby food mixer) mix everything apart from the ice.<\/p>\n Pour into a tall glass.<\/p>\n Top up with ice.<\/p>\n Serve.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “If you don’t know what to do with a fruit, think of a cocktail”. Henceforward this will be my motto. After the successful Passionfruit Daiquiri…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,125,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9489,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/9489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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