Matt and Shauna Leavitt at our home at Christmas.
Just to clarify - Matt's plaid pants were worn as a joke.
A picture of the BLESSED pancakes!
We have had so much support from friends and family during these first four weeks of Emma's life (Happy 4 Week Bday Emma!). One such story goes like this... our friends Matt and Shauna Leavitt came over a few weeks ago to make us dinner. They made us extraordinary banana oatmeal pancakes. I have craved them every day since, but did not have the recipe and was frankly too exhausted to cook much of anything. I saw them at church last week and said, "those pancakes were amazing, I've been craving them ever since you made them." Being the wonderful friends that they are, they showed up at our house again last night and made the blessed celestial pancakes TAKE TWO for the hungry hippo Tam. Is that charity or WHAT? In any case this recipe is so DANG good and relatively healthy, that I had to share it with my blogging friends.
Hearty Banana Oat Flapjacks
2 large bananas - peeled and sliced
1 tbsp. sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 cup Quaker oats (quick or old fashioned)
1 tbsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt (optional)
1 cup milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
Walnuts or pecans (optional)
In medium bowl, combine banana slices and sugar, stire to coat slices with sugar. Set aside. In large bowl combine flour, oats, baking powderm cinnamon, and salt. Mix well. In medium bowl, combine milk, egg, oil, blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once. Mix just until dry ingredients are moistended. Do not overmix. Lightly grease griddle and pour 1/4 cup cup batter for each pancake. Immediately top each uncooked batter pancake with 4-5 banana slices. Turn pancakes when tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked.
Yields 12 pancakes
Each pancake has 106 calories, 3 grams of fat and 1 gram of fiber.
That's 2 points for my WW friends.
9 comments:
In my book, nothing says love like Banana Pancakes. My dad used to make them every Saturday morning and still to this day, I wake up on Saturdays and wonder where breakfast is. That recipe looks divine!
Plus, now we have a song to sing while we're whipping them up! You guys are blessed with great friends.
OK--We just tried your recipe and YUM! I love, love, love them! Even my 5yo who was very skeptical about mixing two of her favorite foods, liked them. Thanks for the new recipe!
I'm so happy about this new recipe--I think we have "breakfast for dinner" coming up in our house this week.
this is random, but we have two friends in common; matt and megan mullins (megan and i (greg) are cousins) and jon and tina evans (we were in the same byu married ward and have kept in touch with them). neat.
sorry, one more random connection. i served my mission with luke wiscombe in singapore, who is from my wife's home ward, whose mom went to high school with my dad, and whose uncle my parents knew when we lived in saudi arabia. wierd.
SOunds good. Thanks for the WW points. I'm consumed with points these days. However, who eats 1 pancake? I would have to make sure i had enough points to enjoy my pancakes!!
Matt and I can't get enough of those pancakes! I'm glad that you like them. We can come over again if you want :-)
Wow- it is great to see your family...I am an old...very old some days friend of Greg's...one of my first memories of his was Jr. High band. Yes, we were and probably always will be nerds. I was happy to see pictures of your beautiful daughter. I love being a mommy to girls...Please say hello to Greg from his old and tired buddy- Tawnee.
I've been craving these even though I've never had them. I made them for lunch yesterday and they didn't disappoint. In fact, this has started me on a pancake spree...I'm looking for all sorts of hearty pancake recipes now.
Dave and Tricia Folsom were in our ward here in Iowa. I say 'were' because once you have a child over 3, they kick you out of our student ward. So they're still here but we're not in the same ward any more. They sure are great people! What a small world!
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