Friday, March 23, 2012

Whole Wheat Brown Sugar Banana Bread Pancakes

As a tradition we always make breakfast for dinner on Friday nights. We have found some great recipes but thanks to Pinterest (again!) I think we have found our favorite! Seriously these are the best pancakes I've ever had! They taste like bread and I love that they don't have eggs! And they're so good you could probably eat them without syrup! Enjoy!
Whole Wheat Brown Sugar Banana Bread Pancakes
(makes 12 pancakes)

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2/3 cup milk (I ended up adding probably about a cup or so more cause it was too thick- I like my mix a little runny)

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

3 large ripe bananas, mashed

2 tablespoons butter, melted

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Measure out the milk and add the vanilla extract to it. Whisk together the dry ingredients and add in milk and vanilla, stirring to combine. The mixture will still be dry. Add in mashed bananas and mix. Add in melted butter and stir until batter is somewhat smooth.

Heat a skillet or grilled on medium heat. Using a 1/3 cup measure, spoon batter into rounds and cook until bubbles form on top – about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook for a minute or two more. Repeat with remaining batter. Serve hot with butter and syrup, or the vanilla maple glaze.

Note: if you don’t have/can’t find whole wheat pastry flour, use 1 cup of regular whole wheat and 1 cup of all purpose. Or 2 cups of all purpose.
Vanilla Maple Glaze (I didn't make this but it goes with the recipe)
1/2 cup maple syrup
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir until smooth. Pour over pancakes.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Cauliflower fries

So once again pinterest came to the rescue! These were so yummy and really did kinda taste like fries! Especially with a little ketchup.

I call them cauliflower fries!

2 heads of cauliflower
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400. Wash cauliflower and cut into small pieces. Drizzle with olive oil in bowl. Put cauliflower on lined and greased cookie sheet. Bake for one hour turning cauliflower 3 times throughout. I added the salt and pepper last but you could add it with the oil at the beginning. I also halved the recipe!

Chloe preferred it raw, but maybe it could be a way to get your kids to eat cauliflower I they don't normally like it! :)