I got home from Trader Joes, started unpacking my groceries, and replaced my brown bananas with fresh ones. But what to do with the sad bananas? Bake cookies of course!
- Even after I spent the morning cleaning my kitchen and taking out my garbage/recycling? Of course!
- Even after my 1.5 hour long work out, while still wearing my heart rate monitor and sweaty clothes? Of course!
Seems counterproductive but totally necessary. And one cannot let bananas go to the landfill.
1 big bowl, 2 ripe bananas, 1.3 cups old-fashion rolled oats, 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1/3 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, and a little under 1 tablespoon vanilla extract later I had an amazingly simple batter of ingredients I had on hand. After mashing it all up and letting the batter sit for about 15 minutes, I threw those 2 tablespoon drops into the 350 degrees oven for some lovin.- What do you do with the left over batter you ask? Well eat it of course?! Yes, while still wearing your workout clothes…would you have it any other way? I mean, there’s no raw egg in this mish-mashed banana recipe so you can have at it.
- And how can I make the clean up easy? By lining the baking sheets with foil of course! Clean up is a breeze and with the new city recycling drop off in my backyard, neither the foil nor bananas will end up in the landfill.
Counterproductive? ...Maybe.
But balance is key in my world. Balance and some really good, simple cookies...of course.
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