Chocolate Banana Avocado Pie

We were ready for a meal away from home today.  About 90-95% of the time I am happy to eat at home.   Most of the time the meals we prepare there are tastier than the meals we can get away from home, plus we know the ingredients which went into those meals.  If we lived in a more "plant based eating" city, maybe eating out would be more fun. 

3807 S. Peoria Ave. Tulsa, OK

We visited our favorite plant based restaurant in Tulsa today, Café Samana.  We have no ties to this restaurant or any other restaurant.  I have been eating there off and on for several years, even before we changed to a plant based diet.  Most of their menu is vegetarian or vegan.  I think they have two entrees for meat eaters.  I love the atmosphere of this café.  The staff is very friendly, and they are very conscious of being earth friendly.  Quote from their website:  "Nearly all of our plates, bowls, glasses, vases, chairs and tables were bought second-hand to reduce our consumption of resources, and we limit our landfill contribution by recycling and composting."  I love that!

Anyway, I want to tell you about a fabulous dessert we had today.  We very rarely order dessert in a restaurant.  I'm not sure why, except probably to save the calories.  This café makes their own  desserts, and they change daily.  We had never tried any of their desserts, but today they were featuring chocolate banana avocado pie.  Well, I certainly could not pass that up.  We shared a piece of the pie, and it was delicious.   When the pie slice was delivered to our table, I was surprised that it was frozen. 

The avocado in the pie was not discernible.  It was a rich chocolate with a pronounced banana flavor.  I asked, and there were no dairy products in the pie.  My grandmother used to make frozen chocolate covered bananas for us when we were children.  I found a recipe for them and also made them for my children.  This pie tasted very much like those frozen chocolate bananas. 

I thought these were planted just for Easter!

We hunted Easter eggs at the same grandmother's house.  I was always amazed that she  
planted beautiful purple flowers over her entire yard every year just so that we could hunt Easter eggs in that beautiful setting.  It wasn't until many years later as an adult that I realized those beautiful flowers were actually the weed henbit, and she simply did not mow her lawn before Easter, which made the entire lawn a sea of purple.  I guess it doesn't matter how the magic happened, just that it did happen.



Jo Ann (R) and her sister Vicky during those fun, magical years.

That pie brought back some great food memories for me.  Now I need to find a recipe so I can duplicate that pie at home.