Posts Tagged ‘banana’

healthy banana pancakes

My gastronomic adventures in Louisiana left me feeling a bit… heavy. Figuratively and literally. But I can’t stop indulging my breakfast sweet tooth on Sunday mornings, and these healthy wheat pancakes are just the solution.

Using bananas always helps keep things moist and I also found a new way to incorporate one of my favorite new healthy eating tricks – almond milk. The unsweetened vanilla flavor only runs 40 calories a cup (as opposed to 120 in a cup of 2%) and tastes great poured over cereal, so I tried it in this batter and had great results! The wheat flour adds a nice depth of flavor and really keeps things hearty so you feel full eating only a few pancakes and you can easily freeze the leftovers for next Sunday!

not-healthy banana chocolate chip muffins

I know I posted some healthy, conscientious, figure-friendly banana chocolate chip muffins awhile ago. They’re great. Delicious. Healthy.

These are greater. More delicious. Not healthy. Many more chocolate chips. A lot more butter. A lot.

I made these as a thank-you gift to Rach’s sister who graciously let us stay at her house this past weekend during my visit to Minnesota. I had the most awesome time in Minnesota seeing Rach and my other girlfriend Steph for the first time since graduation. We laughed, we cooked, we watched Jon Woo movies. It was just like old times. And these muffins was our glorious breakfast for the weekend. The espresso powder doesn’t do much but make the chocolate really sing, and these are so moist they keep for days with no loss in texture or taste.

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banana-peanut butter ‘ice cream’

Some may call this lazy, others (like myself) call it genius.

I saw this on The Kitchn a few days ago, and could not wait to try it. 2-ingredient ice cream you could make and eat within a few hours? Sign me up! All you have to do is chop, freeze, and blend a banana. The natural texture and fat within the fruit lets it blend into a thick, smooth consistency instead of getting crumbly. Stir in some honey roasted peanut butter (ohh, my dearest friend) and you’ve got 2-ingredient ‘ice cream.’

The consistency straight from the blending is like thick soft serve, but you can also freeze it and eat it like normal ice cream too. You can really go nuts with accompaniments (Nutella, chocolate chips, walnuts, etc, spring to mind) so just have fun with it. Plus it can be allergy/lactose/vegan friendly!

Icy bananas.

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