Green Breakfast Balls with Sweet Banana Sauce

I literally just burned the roof of my mouth because I ate one of these, decided it was worth it, and ate two more before they cooled. I think there's an AA for that, yes?

You may have heard me whine about never getting to make breakfast (yes, you, the one person who reads my blog), because I work at 5am. WELL GUYS today I had the morning off so I made a little somethin somethin. These balls are magic and I ate nearly all of them (using the old oh-it's-fine-I'm-going-on-a-run-later excuse). They take little preparation, and the long baking time is good for reading poems or walking to your local coffee shop for some spro.

This is how we do it: (#MontellJordan)

1 C chopped spinach
1/2 C chopped walnuts
1/2 C dried apricots, chopped
3/4 C (or just literally a handful) pitted dates
1 T dried coconut shreds
1 T natural creamy peanut butter
1/2 C flax meal (or ground flax seeds)

Preheat your oven to 350.

Toss the spinach and walnuts in your food processor and pulse a dozen times until crumbly. Then toss in the apricots, dates and coconut and pulse again until well mixed. Next add the peanut butter and pulse a few more times until it's all one cohesive good mess of green and brown.

Now it's time to roll! Throw some flax meal into a small bowl for coating. Scoop out a small handful of your spinach/nut/fruit mixture, roll into a ball, and toss in the flax meal until fully coated. Do this until your're out of spinach/nut/fruit mixture, then bake at 350 for 35 minutes (remember to let these cool!!!). This might make about 8 bigger balls or 12 small ones.

So many innuendos available here. You're welcome for avoiding them.

While my balls were baking (seriously), I threw together a sauce. Easy peasy:

1/2 banana
1/2 T honey
1 tsp pure maple syrup

Mash the banana with a fork, then whisk in the sweeteners until runny and relatively smooth. This is a delicious addition to the balls, but they are sweet in and of themselves so it's not totally necessary.