What did you eat today?

[GLC1968]

Catrin - what is the banana 'bread' that you are eating? Do you have a recipe? I've got about 1000 super ripe bananas in my freezer and I need to do something with them before they get together and form a plan to take over the whole house.

Wednesday
B: sausage, kale, onion frittata topped with avocado, melon, black coffee
L: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', clementines
S: hard boiled egg, apple
D: chili, mixed greens and tomato salad

[Catrin]

Catrin - what is the banana 'bread' that you are eating? Do you have a recipe? I've got about 1000 super ripe bananas in my freezer and I need to do something with them before they get together and form a plan to take over the whole house.

Here is the link to the recipe. I ordinarily just use a "muffin cup" recipe where I mash 1 banana, 1 egg, a bit of almond butter (and sometimes a bit of quality dark chocolate) into a tall coffee cup and microwave for 2 minutes. I do not normally use coconut "flour" for anything, but I had wanted to try it to see what it was like. It doesn't have much coconut flour and almond flour would also work. It makes a nice banana bread loaf that isn't TOO dense and has nice flavor.

The same guy has a "Lara bar" recipe that I want to try at some point.

[Catrin]

Here is a recipe for pumpkin pancakes (no "flour" of any kind). You can add a banana to the mix which really turned out well for me. It does increase the number of pancakes - but it is nice. I make this on the occasional weekend morning - especially if I've got something going on where I decide I need a few more carbs than normal for brekkie.

[GLC1968]

Interesting. I actually have the Civilized Caveman's ebook and haven't made anything from it. And that recipe would never have appealed to me (except that it uses 4 bananas!) but I'll try it based on your recommendation.

That pancake recipe is similar to the waffle recipe I use if you were to sub mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. I hadn't thought of trying it in pancake form but that's a great idea!

Thanks!

[Catrin]

Interesting. I actually have the Civilized Caveman's ebook and haven't made anything from it. And that recipe would never have appealed to me (except that it uses 4 bananas!) but I'll try it based on your recommendation.

That pancake recipe is similar to the waffle recipe I use if you were to sub mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. I hadn't thought of trying it in pancake form but that's a great idea!

Thanks!

The banana bread recipe would likely be even better with nuts -it just depends how much fat you want in it I mixed it in my blender which was fine. Nice and moist, the flavor is decent but I think I might tweak the spices if I make this again. It DOES fill that "dessert bread" kind of place.

I have his e-book as well and so far have only tried one thing out of it. I am finding that I prefer actual books when it comes to cookbooks, I suspect I would have tried more of the recipes by now if it were a physical book. I've printed a few recipes out for later use but haven't made them yet.

[GLC1968]

I am finding that I prefer actual books when it comes to cookbooks, I suspect I would have tried more of the recipes by now if it were a physical book.

I am the same way. I just received 'The Paleo Slow Cooker' cookbook and I brought it with me to work to read at lunch time. It looks beautiful and I cannot wait to dig into it!

[Crankin]

I agree. I bought the Mark Bittman vegetarian cookbook for my Kindle and I never use it. I really need to feel and see the pictures.
I printed out the banana bread recipe. I think I will use almond flour/butter because almonds and bananas sound like a good combo to me.
B: 4 oz. almond milk, half a Luna Bar before boot camp. Coffee, egg white frittata with chicken and broccoli, an orange after class
L: salad with lettuce, grape tomatoes, left over chicken legs, red quinoa, an apple
S: right after lunch I ate some dried cranberries and nuts, at 5:00 I ate the other half of the Luna Bar from this morning.
D: DH made a salad Nicoise recipe from the new Cooking Light. I am so full. I could have saved a bit of it; each ingredient alone was not more than I would eat, but together, even the veggies filled me up.

[Catrin]

I am the same way. I just received 'The Paleo Slow Cooker' cookbook and I brought it with me to work to read at lunch time. It looks beautiful and I cannot wait to dig into it!

Let me know what you think of it! There are a couple of cookbooks I've been considering but I don't need an entire shelf of paleo cookbooks! The funny part is I've avoided cookbooks my entire adult life - preferring just to put things together. While that worked, I am finding that actually using cookbooks encourages me to use different spices and combinations that I wouldn't have considered on my own.