After several, several days of ice…really thick ice….we woke up to snow this morning. A lot of it. This week has been a little crazy with all the winter weather, but it looks like it is going to melt away just in time for the super bowl….
Another view down 8th street.
Brooke didn’t want to be photographed this morning, but I told her it would be good for her modeling career. Work that coffee mug..
Now onto the food…because what else do you do when you are stuck in your house again…cook and eat….repeat.
After looking through a few cookbooks and considering what ingredients we had on hand we decided on blueberry corn pancakes.
Blueberry Corn Pancakes (adapted from Veganomicon)
Ingredients:
3/4 cup Whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons syrup (pure maple is best)
1 cup fresh blueberries
Directions:
1. Sift all the dry ingredients together in a bowl
2. Mix the rest of the ingredients (minus the blueberries) in another bowl.
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until just combined.
4. Fold in the blueberries.
5. Heat up your skillet or griddle to medium heat. Make sure it is really warm before you start.
6. Once it is warm cook your pancakes. I don’t have much advice except to make sure you have bubbles before you flip them.
Yummmmmm
Top them as you please. Some prefer syrup. My pancakes were covered in maple yogurt (1/4 cup plain yogurt + 1 tablespoon syrup).
The nutrition facts are four about four small pancakes or a fourth of the recipe.
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February 4, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Sarah
Those look yummy!!!!
March 15, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Cara
A few thoughts on your thesis….. recently a group of our 5the grade girls at my school have decided they are “not hungry” at lunch and have stopped eating. It is sorta a weird club. I have known these girls since they were in the 3rd grade, and their plummeting self esteems and obsession with their bodies…their friends bodies…and the entertainment industry’s bodies alarms me. Very confident high spirited young girls are morphing into these ashamed self conscious preteens. Ironically, they stand with their arms crossed and do not want to participate in any physical activity in our P.E. class. Because they are so overly-aware of their bodies, the girls do not want to risk looking silly or uncoordinated in front of their male classmates. We live in a world drowning in junk food yet there is no such thing as being too thin. Thought you might be interested in hearing what we are facing at our school with this age group.
March 22, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Rebekah W.
Cara- this is really interesting and sad to me. I worry about creating too much of a focus on what to eat and what not to eat with the girls I work with. I try and stress that they can eat anything, but to remember moderation. I think self image and self awareness plays a huge role in this. I would be interested to learn more about the bigger issues behind these behaviors as well. good luck with this!
March 15, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Cara
crap! i commented on the wrong post.