If you’re anything like me, you may always have a surplus of fruits and vegetables at the end of the week that are about to go bad. Also, if you’re anything like me, you know that it stems from weekend optimism that starting Monday you will make only healthy and nutritious decisions, get a few workouts in, and not fall so far behind that you once again resort to eating Totino’s pizza rolls for every meal.

Although I will say that said pizza rolls make me one happy, happy girl.

Typically the vegetables will get thrown into a big stir fry of some sort and the fruits will get frozen for future smoothies, but sometimes if I feel like having a wild Friday night they’ll get turned into breads and pastries. And that’s where these delicious Tyler Florence’s banana nut muffins come in.

Tyler Florence does something subtle that gives these an upper hand from other banana nut muffins. He reserves 2 bananas to roughly mash and uses a mixer to blend another batch of bananas well with sugar. The result is a deeply intense banana flavor with some added texture from the mashed bananas (not to mention the added crunch from the pecans!).

These banana nut muffins are delicious hot from the oven, slathered in butter, for breakfast the next morning, when you need an afternoon sugar pick-me-up, when you’re sleepwalking in the middle of the night, or when you’ve walked into the kitchen for the third time because you can’t remember what you originally needed. I promise they’ll be a favorite! 

Here’s the recipe: