CHOCO SUPER BANANAS

What are you feeding your life with? What nourishes you? Let’s hope it’s not just food.

I created CómoComo to show the close relationship there is between eating and living; as it translates from Spanish, CómoComo means how to eat.

But it’s not just about eating; it’s about living. CómoComo is about going beyond food nutrition, and into life nutrition.

Living just like eating, is a process of taking in (moments), digesting, and letting go or excreting what we don’t need. Good nutrition depends on how well your body can digest, assimilate and absorb nutrients; similarly, a good life is really a matter of how well you can digest, assimilate, and absorb all the moments in it.

Who we are in the deepest part of our being profoundly impacts the chemistry of our body.

HOW we eat, and WHO we are as eaters deeply affects the way we digest and metabolize our food. Emotions affect the mind, and the mind affects metabolism and our ability to digest food. At the end of the day the kind of food, the amount of food, and the quality of food you eat will depend on who you are as an eater. Once you become healthy in the inside (on an emotional, psychological and spiritual level), you will inevitably choose healthier options on the outside.

— Fernanda de la Puente

Fernanda is a Certified Natural Chef, Holistic Nutrition Counselor CHHC, AADP, Eating Psychology Coach, and 800Hr Jivamukti Yoga Teacher. She gives one on one mind-body nutrition sessions in New York City and teaches yoga at Jivamukti Yoga School NYC.

CAUTION: this is a super-superfood- super-amazing-recipe that Chocolatier Emica kindly taught me, and I can testify it tastes like heaven. Also, it’s actually healthy.

Super Bananas Recipe (2 bananas)

Ingredients:

100g cacao liquor/paste/solids 60g cacao butter
50g coconut nectar
2 frozen bananas
1tsp lucuma powder
pinch vanilla powder
pinch salt

To coat over:

1/2 cup crushed pistachios
1 tsp bee pollen
1 tsp coconut sugar (or crushed freeze dried strawberries for a sugar-free option)

Directions

Melt the cacao butter and paste over a double boiler. When melted, add coconut nectar,
lucuma, vanilla and salt. Mix well and set aside to cool, stiring occasionally to pre-
vent lumps.
In a separate bowl mix the pistachios, coconut sugar (or freeze dried strawberries like we did) and bee pollen, the is to to roll the bananas in.
When the chocolate mix is cool, like the consistency of honey, dip the frozen ba-
nanas in using two forks or tooth picks.
After you have fully coated the bananas, roll in the pistachio, coconut sugar and bee pollen mix over parchment paper.
Then set aside on waxed paper, enjoy immediately or store in the freezer for a few weeks!

Enjoy!

Photos : Fernanda

What are you feeding your life with? What nourishes you? Let’s hope it’s not just food.

I created CómoComo to show the close relationship there is between eating and living; as it translates from Spanish, CómoComo means how to eat.