Speedy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Bananas are so good for you.

I know they are but I cannot seem to like them anyway.

Bananas are a very good source of potassium which is a necessary mineral for regulating a number of important body functions and helps reduce high blood pressure. And if you are like most Americans you do not get enough potassium in your daily diet.  Bananas  are also often recommended by doctors and health professionals when we have  bowel troubles as a dose bananas usually does the trick without the need for a trip to the pharmacy.  Personally, I much prefer a natural solution to health issues over chemical solutions.

With all that said, I still  do not like bananas.   In fact, if a banana is much beyond being green, I have a hard time actually swallowing a bite. I do not like food  flavored with bananas  either.  Banana candy, banana pudding , banana flavor in drinks- blech!

Banana drinks are the worst tasting cocktails in my book

I would not touch a cocktail with banana flavor with a ten foot pole.  But what I really cannot understand are those folks, and my father -in- law falls into this category, those strange beings that won’t eat a banana until it is “ripe”.  Ripe to me is when they need to be baked into something.  Either that or  tossed out in the garbage.

Ripe to some people is just before the fruit flies start to swarm when the skin is sufficiently blackened and that strong sweet smell fills the room.  I honestly cannot stomach any of these signs of ripeness.

I do buy bananas for other people in the house to eat and, therefore,  I  often find myself searching for ways to use the brown overripe fruit before the fruit flies overtake my kitchen.    Sometimes I just put them in the freezer til I have the time, the whole thing skin and all, I  just set it in there.  When I am read to use it it takes about 15 minutes to defrost and then its ready to use.

A family favorite way of use those last remaining “ripe” bananas is in the recipe below.

I never have a problem eating these moist delicious muffins and I don’t think you will either no matter how you feel about bananas.  They are even more moist and flavorful if you add a little  chunky applesauce.