Green Chile and Chocolate Cupcakes

This recipe didn't start with green chile - but as a rule of thumb, if you can put green chile in it, then you probably should. The cupcakes hold their own without, chocolatey and fluffy, and there's nothing to be missed from flour. Because who has time for flour.

1/2 cup almond butter
1 garbage banana, mashed
1 egg
1.5 Tbsp maple (or honey, or sugar, or some weird xylitol mixture)
1/4 cup unsweetened cacao powder (see footnote)
2 Tbsp ground flaxseed
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup zucchini, shredded
1/2 cup carrots, shredded (excessive vegetable is optional, but makes the muffins go farther)
1 green chile, roasted, peeled, and finely chopped (ya, ya, optional).

Combine, fill a 12 cup muffin pan (they'll be like half height muffins), and bake at 350F for 20 mins.

Footnote: This recipe is just a ploy to eat more chocolate. Cacao powder is so delicious and you can add it to anything.. like your morning oatmeal, or yogurt, or coffee, or just eat it straight out of the bag.  Hell you could put that shit on a celery stick.  I love cacao powder so much I recently bought a 5 lb bag to qualify my 2 dollar amazon purchase for free shipping.  I think I won on that.  They even wrote superfood on the bag so you know it's haaaaalthy.

On another note, I have a similar rule of thumb for kimchi, so these cupcakes might get interesting pretty quickly.

Just Banana Bread

For some reason I absolutely cannot get enough of this recipe. So here it is. Simple is as simple does.

3/4 cup oats
2 bananas
2 eggs
1/4 c almond butter
3 T sugar (wet, dry, stevia, whatever works. maple is awesome and honey makes everything taste like honey)
1 t vanilla
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t salt

Food processor - start with just oats until they are floury. Add the rest and blend to a batter.  Pour in a oiled (or lined) loaf pan and bake for 40-45 min at 350F.  You can add some walnuts or chocolate chips for some extra fun.