Poise and sentiment is wasted on the aged.
Handsomeness is wasted on the youth.
Modernization is caught somewhere in the middle (I’m guessing around your mid 30’s?).
The old are but a memento; wrinkled, sun stained, ashy carcasses and hollowed frames of preceding twists and turns. Wisdom wasted on a wasting physique and amnesic consciousness.
The youth are revered as potential-filled catalysts. Yet, lacking poise, filled with poison, stagnancy, sloth, and expected entitlement they fail to venture into realms of novelty and postulate themselves into a vicious circle of narcissistic virtue.
I’m in my 30’s. In which bin do I belong? Bursts of enthusiastic athleticism pervade, innovation busts at the tight fitting seams.
Not old, not young. Not good. Not good enough.
Resentful, bleeding fingers from climbing the jagged mountain of societal norms led by unfit superiors. Unwell, unfit hypocrites.
It’s tense to know these pessimistic generalizations exist. The opinion is your own. Growth, acceptance, denouncement of negativity is within us all to control.
What if…
Beauty was idealized in hundred year old smile lines?
Immaturity was nurtured with conviction, educational instillment, and grace?
Faith was implanted when on the tight rope of failing and falling? Being bound to a prism of normalcy becomes the abnormal.
There is a bowl of fruit on my counter.
Taught, vibrant, sweet exterior of blood oranges, dance in the sunlight.
Mature avocados, veins of rust slowly darkening their creamy emerald flesh.
Black, corpses of used, used up plantains.
But maybe they’re not dead.
Underneath that lifeless peel resides a honeyed starch that is going to make my 30 year old smile lines and snug leggings happy to embrace.
Feeds 8, Takes 30 min
Ingredients for Plantain and Cardamom Muffins
- 1 1/2 cups ap flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsp melted, salted butter
- 2 eggs
- 2 dashes vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cardamom (freshly ground is best, but if you can’t find pods, just ground will do)
- 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
Method
Pre heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and grease muffin tin with butter.
Combine all wet ingredients in a bowl.
Combine all dry ingredients in a different, larger bowl – preferably your Kitchen Aid stand mixer.
Combine all wet ingredients into the KitchenAid, with whisk attachment.
Once just incorporated, drop into muffin tins.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Serve hot or room temp with butter and honey.
Hungry for more dreamy breakfast ideas? How about Corn and Poblano Fritters with Raspberry Creme Fraiche? Or homemade toast from your very own White Bread? Perhaps your sweet tooth beckons some Pomegranate and Raspberry Bread Pudding?
