Last weekend, I purchased a last-minute plane ticket to Arizona to visit my grandparents. That afternoon, I met up with my aunt, my brother, and his best friend during their layovers at the San Diego airport, and we all boarded the same flight to Tucson. Once we arrived, we picked up a rental car and drove to my grandparents’ small town, and after visiting with them for a while, we all collapsed into bed.
But the next morning, we realized that the house lacked just about any kind of food. Nobody expected our spur-of-the-moment appearance, so I headed to the store with my mom to grab some groceries, including bananas. They’re perfectly portioned and don’t require washing, like most of the other fresh fruit options, so I could eat one in the car!
When I walked over to the produce section, I stopped and stared. There was a gigantic pile of bananas, more than I usually find in the large grocery stores in California, yet…
All of the bananas were green. Absolutely, positively, Kermit-the-frog green.
Even so, I gently dug through them and eventually found a small bunch of light yellow ones buried underneath the rest. I tucked those under my arm and headed straight for the register, but when I broke one open a little later and took a bite…
I felt like I was eating a potato. Despite their golden color, those bananas were incredibly unripe and totally starchy. Yuck.
After a quick internet search, I found one website that proclaimed microwaving the peeled banana would make it deliciously sweet, just like a regular ripe banana, so I gave that a try… Yet when I took my first bite, it just tasted sort of like a warm baked potato. Not quite as starchy, but definitely not sweet, and it has a funky gooey texture in the center too.
I ate as much of that weird, warm, still unripe banana as I could, but the whole time I chewed, I thought of the beautifully yellow, slightly speckled, perfectly ripe bunch of bananas on my counter in California that I had bought a few days before… If only I had thrown a couple of those into my purse before boarding the plane!
When I returned home, they had turned a little too ripe but were perfect for making these Healthy Banana Pancakes! These pancakes are moist and fluffy with naturally sweet fruit flavor, and I even topped them with a super easy homemade dark chocolate drizzle. Even better, these pancakes contain no refined flour or sugar and just 135 calories in each serving!
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