Wow….nothing like starting the new year off right!!! I just ate the best pancakes of my entire life and I MADE THEM!!! Now, I love pancakes. I like them for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, for snack. Once I woke up in the middle of the night and made chocolate-chip pancakes for myself in high school when I was stressed out over a recent break-up. I like to order them out when I go out for breakfast too…I just love them! But…today I made the best pancakes I have ever tasted and they were so EASY! I couldn’t believe it! They turned out fluffy, golden and the absolute perfect texture that a pancake could be. Bottom line—I’m sure most of you all are still fast asleep so when you read this you will still have time to make these for breakfast this morning! The ingredients are probably already sitting in your pantry.
The whole wheat pancakes I made a couple weeks ago and featured on this site were good…..but this brought it to a whole new level. It completely blew them away. I found the recipe for these in the new love of my life, Tess Kiros’ cookbook, Apples for Jam. I just love this gorgeous book and have read the entire thing now cover to cover. It’s def. ranked up there in my list of favorite cookbooks (and I have a collection of well over 200). Her recipes are fantastic, her writing is superb and the pictures just make it all complete. Its hard to find though because its a small press and from Europe but I found it at Anthropologie and grabbed it immediately! Anyways, back to the pancakes. I increased the liquid a tad because the batter looked a little thick…it worked very well and I will put my modifications on the recipe I’m about to type for you all in the “recipes” page.
I typed out the ingredients to this in my nutritional software and found that 1/3 of the recipe = 256 calories. That’s roughly 2 pancakes (I think!) because this makes about five. Not too bad at all! I ate two perfectly golden hotcakes with a tablespoon of pure maple syrup, a navel orange, 2 slices of turkey bacon and 4 ounces of greek yogurt with pom seeds all for only 495 calories. This recipe is perfect too because you can make them one morning, eat two of them and then freeze the other three for later on. Or, if you are like me and have a hungry guy still fast asleep in bed, you can feed the other three to him! 🙂
I also made a cappuccino this morning to sip on while making pancakes. yum!
Entire meal was about 510 calories, including cappuccino. 🙂 Happy New Year!!!
Danielle
January 1, 2008 at 5:00 pmYummy! and I know because I just had almost the exact same breakfast 🙂 Nice way to start 2008!
Moran
January 1, 2008 at 6:27 pmHi there,
I have a question to ask you about the times you eat dinner; I have noticed in a few posts that you eat it around 16:30-17:00 in the afternoon. Wow! That seems SO early to me! I always have a problem with eating massive amounts of food at night (or dinner) and I have been fighting this forever. So basically my question is how do you do this? And just another related question, what time do you usually go to sleep? I am asking cause I wonder how long do you go between dinner and breakfast.
Happy New Years!
Kath
January 1, 2008 at 6:29 pmLooks great!!!
jenna
January 1, 2008 at 7:57 pmHi Moran,
I usually eat dinner at 6:00 during the week. On the weekends when I’m with my boyfriend we eat later around 8:00. I don’t feel like that’s that abnormal? I like to eat an early dinner when I’m on my own because I go to bed earlier…so I eat dinner at 6, have dessert around 7:30 and go to bed at 10:00. Here’s my “average” eating schedule during the week when I’m at school. Right now its a bit different but this is what I usually do
6:15-wake up
6:30- breakfast
9:30 snack
1:00-lunch
3:30-snack
6:00-dinner
7:30-dessert
right now its more like this because I’m on break:
7:00-wake up
7:30-breakfast
11:30-lunch
3:00-snack
6:00 dinner
7:30-dessert
jenny
January 2, 2008 at 1:15 pmhi jenna, how do you make that yummy looking cup of cappucino? it works to only 15 calories by your calorie calculation? thanks!
jenna
January 2, 2008 at 1:45 pmHi jenny! I got a cappuccino maker for christmas, that’s how! I only use about 1.5 ounces of skim milk in my cappuccino, just to get the foam so that only equals about 15 calories or so? Plus a splenda. there’s MUCH less milk in cappuccinos than lattes, which are mainly milk. Cappuccinos are mainly espresso!