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Banana Bacon Cookies

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When we returned home from Florida, this was waiting for us:

dead_bananas

Dead bananas.

I thought about making banana bread but put it off. Monday night, during #foodiechats, someone started talking about bacon. I wondered what my grandma’s banana cookie recipe would taste like if I put bacon in the mix.

This morning, I dug out the well loved, well used recipe of my grandma’s.

recipe

I cooked up about 6 pieces of chopped bacon.

And baked. They look like they normally do.

cookies

Except these.

rounds

When I went to get the third pan, I found this pan I’d never used and the cookies came out in cute little rounds instead of spreading on the flat cookie sheet.

Do they taste good? Yes! These are good cookies any way you make them. With the bacon, unless you get a bite of bacon, you don’t taste it. The banana taste is predominant. But when you get a piece of bacon, yum! Delish! šŸ™‚

Cardamom nom nom

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The other day, I was talking to my friend @wedgepizzza to see how she used cardamom pods. I had stopped by for a banana cardamom muffin back in March and it was delicious. She was baking them again that day.

I had been to the Indian grocery before we left Tulsa and bought a bag of cardamom pods that has been sitting in theĀ cupboardĀ ever since. Every time I open the cupboard I smell them and think I really need to do something wtih them. I love that smell!

@wedgepizza told me that she grinds the pods after she toasts them and she particularly likes it pairedĀ withĀ banana and suggested pancakes. I told her I’d have to find a paleo pancake recipe since we are trying hard not to do flour.

Not ten minutes later, this recipe sailed into my inbox. I figured that crepes were pretty close to pancakes and got ready to make the recipe. I knew that allowing bananas to be old enough to moosh was going to be my biggest challenge since David loves them so much.

I bought a bunch of bananas and then we went out of town for a week. The bananas were ready and waiting for me to moosh them into crepes this a.m.

I followed the recipe as given but it wasn’t as soupy as it was supposed to be and we ended up with banana pancakes. Which we ate with our fingers. Delicious!

This recipe makes a lot of pancakes and we have a bunch left over. We’ll be having this again! Oh, and I forgot to add the cardamom so I will Ā have to figure out a way toĀ incorporateĀ that into something. šŸ˜‰

Paleo Banana Crepes

Makes about 7 big crepes

Ingredients:

1/2 bag of Bob’s Redmill Tapioca Flour

1 can full fat coconut milk (try Native Forest – no BPA in can)

5 ripe bananas

1/2 teaspoon salt

7 pastured eggs

Instructions:

Mix and mash all ingredients together to make a pretty soupy batter. A hand held mixer or submergible blender works well. Heat a large, non-stick pan on medium low and then cover the bottom of the pan with a thin layer of the batter. Flip when bottom is golden brown. Cook until both sides are lightly browned.

You can cut these up and eat them plain or wrap meat and veggies in them. Even though they’re banana, the flavors blend really well.

Bad banana

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I make the same protein drink every morning for breakfast and it calls for a half banana. When David was at home, it was easy because I’d use one half and he’d use the other. Well, now I have an extra half every day so I’ve been wrapping them in saran wrap and freezing them.

I’ve learned through experience that this makes the banana VERY hard and it causes the bottom of my blender to come undone and leak protein drink all over the blender, counter, etc.

EPIC mess.

So today, I decided to take the banana out of the freezer before I walked Boo Boo.

When I got home, the banana was thawed. And super squishy, almost liquid-y. Which is not a big deal in the whole scheme of things since it’s just going to be blended up into the protein drink.

But dig this: it smelled like the banana that my mom used to pack in my school lunch after it sat in my locker all morning

Remember that smell?