Fresh Fruits of Summer: Bananas

Bananas? A summer fruit? Well, yes, bananas are a summer fruit although truth is, banana trees produce fruit year-round so bananas are also fall, winter and spring fruits, too. Still, since bananas are available year-round, we don't see them much in summer, not while precious cherries, apricots, blueberries, raspberries and other summer-only fruits show their much-awaited faces. But this week, food bloggers had me rethinking the idea: bananas, they belong in our summer fruit panoply.

These two recipes showed up in my feed reader -- back to back, one after the other, tip over tail. Just like that.

Bounteous Bites ~ Roasted Banana Ice Cream with Poppy Seeds
Our Kitchen Sink ~ Banana Sour Cream Sorbet

But look. I just flew through my feed reader, to see if other food bloggers were peeling off banana skins too. Yes, ma, more bananas!

Baking Bites ~ Banana Pancakes
Cookie Madness ~ Banana Split Bars
Chocolate & Zucchini ~ Banana Pecan Cake with Chocolate Glaze
Eat Me Delicious ~ Elvis Fluffernutter Cake
Cookbook Catchall ~ Very Berry Health Muffins
Erin's Kitchen ~ Strawberry Banana Pudding Pie

Bananas. No doubt, they're not just for banana bread, they're not just for winter.

All this banana business has BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg rushing to the kitchen to make a double batch of banana oatmeal cookies.