I love breakfast foods. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, late-night munchie and brunch, I’m there. I’ve never skipped breakfast in my life; it’s not just the most important meal of the day, it’s the most comforting and delicious. Are you into breakfast foods?
Recipes: Blueberry Corn Pancakes & Cherry-stuffed French Toast
BLUEBERRY CORN PANCAKES
shared by Anja via Veganomicon
Ingredients
3/4 cup flour (all purpose or whole-wheat pastry flour)
1/2 cup cornmeal (make sure it’s the finely-ground variety)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 1/4 cup vanilla almond milk (OR rice, soy, hemp, hazelnut, cow)
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons honey (OR pure maple syrup, agave nectar)
1 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1 cup fresh blueberries
Cooking spray or a little oil for greasing the pan
Directions
1) Preheat a large non-stick pan on medium-high heat
2) Sift together flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt. in a
separate bowl, combine all other ingredients (except blueberries and
cooking spray). Add wet to dry, mix until just combined, then fold in
the blueberries.
Do not over mix or the pancakes will be tough, a couple of lumps is okay!
3) Spray pan with cooking spray. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup or an ice
cream scoop to pour out batter into pan. Cook pancakes until brown on
bottom and bubbles form on top. Flip pancakes over with a thin spatula and cook until bottoms are brown and pancakes are barely firm to the touch.
Transfer to plates.
Repeat with remaining batter, adding more oil to the pan as needed.
makes 8-10 pancakes
NOTES
- This recipe is originally vegan. I switched out the maple syrup for honey.
- I used whole-wheat pastry flour
- I never measured my blueberries; I used about 3/4ths of a basket and topped the pancakes with leftover blueberries & butter. Anja recommends agave, a little bit of coconut oil, or soy-yogurt.
STUFFED FRENCH TOAST
Ingredients
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/4th cup vanilla almond milk (or whatever milk you use)
1/4th tsp. vanilla extract
1 TBSP Grand Marnier
4 slices of bread
Filling
Vanilla Greek yogurt
Morello cherries (purchased at Trader Joe’s)
Grease a skillet with cooking spray, heat up skillet.
Mix the first four ingredients together in a bowl.
Mix yogurt & cherries in separate bowl.
Coat both sides of a slice of bread, lightly fry both sides and place on a waiting plate nearby.
Repeat with one more slice, but after both sides are lightly fried, add filling mix to one side, place pre-fried slice on top, flip & re-fry again until golden brown.
Repeat with other two slices.
Plate up, sprinkle with powdered sugar and dig in!
NOTES
- You can use another skillet or pan to fry both slices at once OR if your skillet is big enough, fry both pieces at once.
- In lieu of yogurt, you can use cream cheese & add vanilla extract and/or powdered sugar for extra sweetness.
1. Sharing a pint of Ben & Jerry’s while watching DVDs in bed with that special someone.
