Healthy Breakfast Month

This month is devoted to a love of breakfast food, an aversion to getting up obscenely early to make breakfast, and a conviction that breakfast is, indeed, the most nutritionally important meal of the day. We will be posting in the month of June various breakfast recipies and ideas that are quick to prepare in the morning, healthy, and (most importantly) delicious!

To start things off... I give you my world famous, lickity split, yummy and nutritious, versatile pancake recipe!

The staple of this pancake recipe is a good buckwheat pancake mix. I usually try to avoid using mixes, and I'm thinking of trying to put together my own mix that I can make up a lot of ahead of time and keep on hand, but for now I use this one for speediness and convienience:



For two people, I combine:
~ 3/4 c of mix
~ 1/2 c plain greek yogurt
~ Honey to taste
~ 1/2 c unsweetened apple sauce
~ 1 egg

This is the basis of worlds of possibilities!

Begin by placing your pan on the stove to warm up or plugging in your countertop grill (my favorite way to go!) to medium high heat (350 on a grill)

Prepare your mix:
1) Start with the yogurt and honey. Mix those together to your desired sweetness. The honey really only needs to cut the tartness of the yogurt.
2) Add the egg and applesauce and stir again
3) Now add the mix

This should take approximately 1 minute :)

Next, grab a stick of butter and unwrap one end. Swirl it around on the hot cooking surface (pan or grill) the desired size of your pancake. Wait just a few seconds for it to get golden brown and delicious smelling, and then pour on your pancake mix (I use about 1/4c per pancake).

When the bottom half looks nice and cooked, time to flip!

Repeat with the rest of the mix. This cooking phase should take about 4 minutes.

Heat up some real maple syrup in the microwave, serve over hot pancakes, and enjoy! I promise you can get this down to 5 minutes...

Fun with variations:

1) Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
      ~ Add to the mix some pumpkin pie spice, some strong vanilla, and some extra honey. Delicious with cooked apples on top instead of syrup!

2) Banana Pancakes
      ~ Slice up a couple of bananas and after you pour the mix on the griddle, place slices neatly on top of the pancake and gently press into the pancake. When you flip, swirl a bit more butter on there to caramelize the bananas. Yummmmm...
      ~ You can also add some nuts to the pancakes for banana nut. I like walnuts!

3) Blueberry
      ~ Its always easy to throw some blueberries into the batter. Also, I like to add lemon juice!

Happy Pancake Making!!!