Recipe of the Day : Tuesday 9th Feb

Banana Crunch

Serves 4 (Vegetarian)

Juice of ½ lemon
4 small bananas
300ml banana yogurt
250ml fromage frais
1 egg white
4 tbsp crunchy style cereal or muesli

Pour the lemon juice into a bowl. Thickly slice the bananas and toss them in the lemon juice until they are well coated.

Mix together the banana yogurt and fromage frais. Whisk the egg white until it forms stiff peaks and then fold it into the yogurt and fromage frais mixture.

Take four tall glasses and layer with the chopped bananas and then the yogurt mixture. Finally top with a tablespoon of the cereal/muesli and serve at once.

RICE KRISPIES CELEBRATES 80 YEARS ON THE BREAKFAST TABLE


One of Britains best loved cereals celebrates its 80th Birthday this week (commencing 10 November).

Originally marketed as the ‘talking cereal’ because of the distinctive sound it makes when milk is poured on it, Rice Krispies was sold by a team made up of Boy Scouts when it first hit British shelves in 1928.

Since then, the iconic cereal has enjoyed many highlights including when The Rolling Stones recorded a short song for a Rice Krispies television advert in 1963, and when a young Jonathan Ross starred in another Rice Krispies ad in 1970.

Rice Krispies has become famous for its three lovable characters Snap, Crackle and Pop. Snap first appeared on boxes in 1933 as a magical gnome, whilst Crackle and Pop joined him a few years later and the three 75 year olds have since gone through a number of radical image makeovers to keep them looking young and modern.

Rice Krispies was only the third cereal to be created by the founder of Kelloggs, William Keith Kellogg in 1928 following Corn Flakes (1894) and All-Bran (1916). When it first arrived in the UK it quickly became the nations fastest growing cereal brand.

The cereal disappeared for a few years during World War II because of a global shortage of rice but returned to the UK shortly afterwards with 21ft bus adverts announcing that ‘Kelloggs Rice Krispies are back!’

Since 1938 Rice Krispies has been made and distributed from the Kelloggs factory in Manchester and for this reason alone Kelloggs is the second biggest importer of rice in the UK.