Banana Bread Muffins

I thought I would try another recipe. I love bananas. On the last grocery trip, I bought a few. I couldn't eat them all fast enough before they went super ripe. Luckily, I found this recipe so I didn't have to throw them out.

Inspiration

Inspiration Nook

Ingredients

• 3 Very ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 Eggs
• 1 & 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 stick of butter
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• Optional  – a little splash of liquor, I used rum.

This is a simple recipe that is absolutely as delicious as it sounds! I got this recipe from a blogger's mom's recipe...and it's exactly what you would hope a mother's recipe would be!

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

First in a little bowl you need to separate the egg whites and blend them until frothy. Put the eggs yolks in a larger bowl to use in the next step.

In a big bowl mix the sugar, yolks and melted butter.

Add bananas slowly to mix taking turns with the flour.

Add all the rest of the ingredients and the egg whites you mixed first.

Take a muffin pan and either in set liners or spray with nonstick spray. Fill each about 2/3. You can top with chocolate chips, nut, etc. Place in oven for about 25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick or fork comes out clean.

Enjoy! These are truly delicious muffins!

Green Monster Smoothie

So, I decided to make my first recipe for the blog last night! I'm trying to lose a little bit of weight, so, I'm trying to eat healthier. My friend at work (Thanks Lacey!) told me about the Green Monster Smoothie. It's pretty similar to the "Naked" drinks that have become pretty popular. However, this is much less expensive. Of course Pinterest has several recipes for this smoothie. 

Inspiration

Oh She Glows

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Milk (of your choice)
• 1 Tbsp Nut Butter (of your choice)
• 2 Handfuls of Spinach
• 1 Banana (cut into large pieces and frozen)
• Blender

It's a very simple recipe. Just put it all in your blender. It's best to do it in this order: add your 1 cup of milk, 1 tbsp of nut butter, throw in the two handfuls of spinach and place the cut up frozen banana on top. 

It definitely looks pretty gross. I was skeptical for sure. However, it is surprisingly good. The banana and nut butter help disguise the taste of the spinach. You can change up the ingredients to make it your own. You can add more fruit (apples, grapefruit, berries, etc), change the greens to something like kale, use yogurt instead of milk or add grains like oats. Personally I used light vanilla soy milk, Nutella, spinach and a banana and I thought it was pretty good. It also kept me full until lunch time! For those of you who are on Weight Watcher's Points Plus like me, the way I made it was only 5 points! To get as much as you do and for it to be so filling...5 points isn't too bad!