Hi everyone :)
I have realized that I haven't had pancakes for like...ages. So, last night I decided to give it a go and try to make some sweet ones and also, since it was dinner time, some savory ones. Since my Mom was at work and I wanted to surprise my Grandma, who's here to visit us from Germany for a while, I consulted the internet for an easy recipe. I found this one immediately: http://www.laubfresser.de/2009/10/vegane-pfannkuchen.html
For the English speakers/non-metric-system-users:
- 2 cups of water (or soy/almond/hemp/rice/rye/hazelnut/walnut/...(you get the point) milk)
- 1 cup of flour (best would of course be not to use wheat flour; I used rye flour)
- a pinch of salt
- 4 tbs of sugar (+ 1 tsp of vanilla sugar/extract) for the sweet kind & 1 and a half tsp of sugar for the savory kind (again, raw cane sugar would be best)
Now, for the sweet kind I also added some cocoa powder, dark chocolate chips & banana slices. For the savory kind I chopped some tomatoes and also put in some basil, salt & pepper.
I'd love to attach a photo of both kinds but the savory pancakes were pretty much inhaled by us and I forgot to take a picture of them. But here are two of the sweet ones:
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| While baking... |
They look so dark because of the cocoa powder, not because they're burnt btw ;)
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This recipe is really easy and quick to try out and you can add whatever you want according to you own likings!
Happy baking :D
So, I was completely NOT in the mood for going outside of my room to the dorm kitchen to cook some actual, warm dinner. Also, it's quite late for dinner already so I decided I might as well use those four bananas laying on my fruit table before they go bad haha.
I got my awesome food processor (which my lovely parents gave me for my birthday) out of the storage drawer and put the four bananas and some peanut butter in it. I mixed it all together and got a nice consistency by adding some rice milk too. Then I poured it in the really cool looking (you can't really tell from that picture) bowl my Mom got me (after I kinda...broke my last bowl) and sprinkled some granola on top.
I'm not even sure what to call it really, because it's in a bowl...but I guess it's still considered a smoothie. So, what I used for this one are:
- 4 ripe organic (& Fair Trade) bananas
- 1 table spoon of soft peanut butter (I guess if you wanted more to bite on you could use the crunchy kind)
- some organic rice milk
- organic crunch granola
If I had cinnamon I would have definitely added some of that too to give it a bit of a more spicy flavor.
This was such an improvement considering my previous smoothie failure. I knew from the beginning I shouldn't have added those two tomatoes (don't ask me why I even did that)...but I was a fighter and drank it all. With my nose closed. It was horrible.
I hope to see you again for my next food adventure!
Katie Lynn :)
