I had always been terrified of that horrible fruit (?) I had seen the recipes and though nah they can’t be as good as people say. Plantains are gross!
Recently though I ran into someone from my church who said she uses them all the time to make various things, like pizza crust, waffles and pancakes, they are fluffy and taste good. So this week I decided to give it a try!
Original Recipe can be found here: http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/09/perfect-paleo-pancakes.html with the Paleo Mom, she’s super awesome by the way!
Ingredients: 2 large green plantains, 4 eggs, 2 tsp vanilla, 1/8 tsp sea salt, 1/2 tsp baking soda and coconut oil for frying
I went off the rails immediately. I couldn’t find GREEN plantains anywhere so I bought yellow ones, I mean how different can they be? The answer to that I am going to imagine is A LOT!!!!
Mine smelled so sweet, and banana like, and I like bananas but not so much like this haha Since I was making mine in a waffle iron I added butter right to the batter hoping it would make it stick a little less? Okay so the 
reasoning behind that really isn’t that solid, but it kinda worked!
In the end, they were okay. I put maple syrup on them, and to be honest I shouldn’t have done that. I don’t really enjoy dipping my bananas in syrup and it didn’t taste very good on these waffles either! With butter melted on top I did eat 2 of them, and then I couldn’t eat anymore. I will likely make them again, they weren’t terrible by any means, but I wouldn’t say they were totally amazing and I want to eat them every day (like the coffee I posted before lol)
However, in an attempt to give the recipe the benefit of the doubt, 
I am going on the hunt for some green plantains so I can give it a go the proper way. Just like regular bananas I am going to assume here that the riper the plantain the
sweeter they get, and if I had of gotten the green ones they wouldn’t have been so sweet and banana-like. Now if you LOVE bananas, then go ahead and use the yellow ones lol They were good, just not what I was expecting!
Hopefully I can get the recipe right next time!
pretty warm here right now so I didn’t warm the coconut oil and the peanut butter like in the article, mine mixed together smoothly just in a bowl, it’s hitting 40C out there right now with the humidity and we haven’t turned the air on lol I mixed all the ingredients for the bottom peanut butter layer and put about a teaspoon of that mixture into the little mini cupcake pan holes. Then it went to the freezer while I mixed up the chocolate portion.
With any luck I’ll end up with some amazing ice cream type concoction! I also started with doubling the recipe, it didn’t look like very much when I started.
hopefully when I get it out of the freezer it will be of an ice cream texture and I can just have some with a spoon!
his year was such an unexpected experience that our curriculum, although thorough, is more of a patchwork dump than anything else. They certainly learned a great deal, I can see their progress quite a bit, even more so in the social realm. The girls are closer than they have ever been. I would however like for next year to be a little more organized in the actual doing of school work. I am going to grab the Apologia Ultimate Homeschool Planner I think for next year, and there is a homeschool conference coming up in Peterborough at the end of this month. I can’t wait to head up there with my partner in crime Melissa and check out all the stuff! They will have a few lectures, but it’s the vendor hall I’m really going to see, I want to pick the stuff up and look at it, flip through the pages, get myself going on making things feel more real next year!
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