CUCUMBER AND BANANAS RECIPES

Steps:

• Squeeze lemon and reserve juice. Peel banana and slice finely. Peel apples, cut into quarters, remove cores and cube. Mix apple pieces with banana slices and lemon juice.
• Rinse parsley, shake dry and chop leaves.
• Peel cucumber, cut in half lengthwise, remove seeds and cut into bite size pieces. Place 3 pieces of cucumber on 4 wooden skewers.
• Place apple mixture, remaining cucumber, parsley and ice in a blender. Blend until desired consistency is reached and pour into 4 glasses. Fill to taste with mineral water and garnish with a cucumber skewer to serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray 2 5x9-inch loaf pans with cooking spray.
• Place shredded cucumbers into a colander and let drain for about 30 minutes.
• Stir eggs, vegetable oil, sugar, vanilla extract, drained cucumber, and pecans together in a large bowl. Whisk flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, baking powder, nutmeg, and cloves in a separate bowl. Stir dry ingredients into the cucumber mixture until batter is thoroughly combined. Spoon batter into prepared loaf pans.
• Bake loaves in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Let loaves cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing from pans to finish cooling on wire racks.