November almost over! I was in the mood for a warm and toasty breakfast today. Someone had asked me in the comments if subbing almond flour for coconut flour would work in the banana breakfast bread pudding. I wasn’t totally sure, but figured today was a good day to find out.
I shall dub this the Almond Banana Puff
Using these ingredients:
- 1 medium banana
- 60 grams of egg whites (probably 3 or 4?)
- 2 tablespoons (14 grams) almond flour
- cinnamon to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
First off, I put the banana and egg whites in my mini blender and whizzed them up. You probably don’t have to do this, but the end product won’t be so puffy. This banana was firm, so that’s why I did it. Then I baked for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. The result? Basically a banana souffle.
The almond meal is not as absorbent as the coconut flour, so this let it puff up like a souffle as the batter was liquidy. I didn’t double the almond flour because it is pretty caloric compared to coconut flour.
See how fluffy this is?
Good deal. Calories on this (without toppings) are about 220.
So on to some randomness now:
Funny, when I wrote the blog title about ‘book update’ the other day, I didn’t think that people might interpret that as a book I was writing. I am not writing a book and have no plans on writing a book. At least a nonfiction one at any rate. I just stick to reviewing ones I have read 😀
I have noticed that quite a few people who lost a lot of weight and then wrote books have regained a good amount of weight back. It is just tough to put yourself in the public eye like that – especially if you struggle. Sometimes it is hard enough having a blog and never having made it to goal :ahem:
More doin’s:
Update on Billy. Aka Big Bill the Pill. Isn’t it funny how we call our pets every other name but the one we gave them?
Anyhoo, Billy goes tomorrow for his neutering (don’t tell him!!) and he will be officially up for adoption at that point, although we are fostering him until then or they have another foster home that opens up to take him. He has turned out to be quite the nice cat. Super, super friendly and kind of silly (hence the nickname). I really hope he has a new home by Christmas. He’s filled out nicely with all the food.
I think it looks like he has a Mickey Mouse head on his back. Does anyone else see it?
Not to be outdone in the cuteness area, here is Pixie sucking her toes in my lap today. It is so effing cute when she does this!
And if you are wondering, one of Pixie’s alternative names is P-diddly. John christened her with that one. I guess some cross between Bo Diddly and P Diddy
I think I need a donut tonight. Ever have times like that?