We finally got snow yesterday!
Granted, it wasn’t much, but the roads were slippery, so I did not venture out. Instead I pretended like I was SNOWED IN and ate pancakes.
[Got the recipe]
- 1 cup ground oatmeal [into a flour]
- 1 T granulated sugar
- 1 t baking powder
- 1/4 t baking soda
- 1/4 t salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk [rice milk, butter milk, regular milk]
- 2 t cooking oil
Mix dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Set aside. In a separate bowl, crack the egg, and beat it. Add the milk and oil to the egg mixture. Blend well. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture; stirring well. When the wet mixture is fully incorporated, scoop 1/4 cup servings onto your griddle or frying pan and cook away!
Seriously these are FANTASTIC.
You can then top them with syrup, or [our topping of choice!] stewed blueberries!
You need:
- 1 cup frozen blueberries
- agave
- 1 t cornstarch
- 1/4 cup water
Mix the cornstarch and water together, beating out all the lumps. Set aside. In a pot, on medium heat, add your blueberries and sweetner of choice. When the blueberries are thawed a bit, add in your cornstarch mixture. Continue to stir until you have a bubbly, thick, blueberry syrup.
After breakfast, I did something I rarely do these days. WORKED OUT! I haven’t been doing anything but yoga, and while that’s nice, my body can tell.
I did an hour workout broken up into 20 minute segments.
- 20 minutes weights
- 20 minutes elliptical
- 20 minutes yoga
‘Twas fabulous.
All sweaty I vegged out and watched Gilmore Girls for about an hour, and then headed to the kitchen to feed the beast.
Craving salsa, I threw random ingredients in the food processor and came up with this:
Delish.
Then I realized we had no chips. So I improvised.
Made my own.
Sadly for me, I had to share this portion with others. Had it been up to me, I’d have kept it to myself.
That spurt of creativity and energy wiped me out, so I bathed to refresh myself, and also ready myself for the next meal.
CHILI!
Better than Wendy’s I say. Linden is THE BEST chili cook. Of course she learned from THE BEST BEST, Mama D.
And she learned this from Grandma:
Baked apple pie!
We always make these little pies when it snows, so yesterday would have been incomplete without it.
Thank you Linden, for making our snow day complete.
Do you have any ‘snow day’ traditions?
I realize it’s very possible that we only have snow day traditions because it only snows once a year, much like Christmas comes, and to others it is not quite so exciting to wake to a blanket of snow. But…share! What are your uncommon traditions? Not necessarily snow day, but unique to you traditions.
impressive salsa – probably my favorite snack! and we had a snow day yesterday too so of course my roommates and i had to have a huge snowball fight 😉
wish i had Linden in my house to make me an apple pie!
oh my gosh LOVE apple pie!! and those pancakes!!
did everybody freak out in NC about the snow?
it snowed here in clemson last night and people were going CRAZY!
haha, ALWAYS!!! Our roads were really icy though! [still are, in fact.]
When we got a snow day off of school (and had everything we needed), my mom and brother and I would make sugar-covered donuts… sooo good. It’s probably for the best that we didn’t do it extremely often… 😉
Cooking on snow days is the best! Unfort since I live in PA and almost every day is a snow day right now, my “traditions” are pretty much the normal everyday stuff!
Those pancakes look awesome – finally, a pancake recipe I have all the ingredients for!!!!
I love soup and tea when it snows!! I also love to shovel as it gets a great workout in and a good excuse to get out in the snow!
This is going to sound awful, since I”m not a baker. But will flour work just as well as ground oatmeal? I’ve never made pancakes from scratch and I kinda wanna!
Yes, we actually substitute oat flour for regular flour, so just using all-purpose would be fine.
YAY!!! I’m so glad you replied lol. I’m SO in the mood for pancakes, and I’m definitely going to be making them verrrrrrrrrrry soon.
Oat flour makes pancakes so delish and light! I love blueberries in pancakes… yum!
I don’t really have any snow traditions but when I was little me and my brothers would pack up the sled and walk down to street to a hill a bunch of kids slid down. It was so steep I wouldn’t ever go down as a kid!
Those stewed blueberries look amazing! Snow day traditions – taking photos of the snow outside, taking the dog out for a walk all bundled up. Hasnt snowed here yet and the Olympics are in 2 weeks!
we got a lot more than you guys did! there’s an actual THICK LAYER of snow out there — something i haven’t seen for a long time in NC!
the little pies are such a cute, warm tradition!
also (this is random) i really like the name linden.
every day is a snow day here lol… I wish everything shut down but…we are expected to walk with snow to our thighs 😦 Your pancakes look yummy!!
Wow! That apple pie looks fantastic!!! I don’t really have any snow day traditions since I lived in Sweden and it snows 4 months out of the year there but before I had lived with a real winter, I used to cuddle up with blankets and sit inside all day with my mom watching chick flicks.
your salsa makes all da pretty girls want to dance and take off their underpantssss.. please tell me you know that song – otherwise I prob sound like a totes creeper.
haha, you totes DO NOT sound like a creeper! I love you!!
Growing up, my mom used to make this enormous pot of Beef Barley Soup on snow days. It made the house smell wonderful and the soup would last for days. I thought about it yesterday when Justin and I went out to get supplies to make tomato soup 🙂
We got snow in Raleigh too! Now just need it to melt 😉 No traditions here but stay warm inside and make some hot cocoa! Boring I know 😉
Just read your interview on Ali’s blog. 🙂 You’re one of my fav bloggers. Yayyyy
THANK YOU!
When we were kids, we always went sledding on the hilly golf course. In college (I went to school in the TUNDRA), any day that was NOT a snow day was cause to celebrate.
Your pancakes look amaz. Sounds like a great way to celebrate the snow to me.
We go sledding!!! Isaac always want to go first thing when we wake up after a snow storm.
haha! my snow day traditions are sit and eat. haha just sit and eat. actually thats more like my weekends tradition..
baked apple pie. I WANT NOW.
Oh those pancakes look amazing!
Oh your pancakes look gasmic! As always!
Those pancakes look great! I have to try grinding my flour…
OMG love the baby apple pie!! That reminds me of the apple pie pocket things they have at McDonalds. I haven’t had one of those since like high school. They were soo good 🙂
I wish someone would make me apple pie when it snows!
When we have snow days here (in AZ) I drink lots of tea and don’t leave the house! Luckily they are few and far between here, even though we did get a lot last week. I miss the snow days of my childhood. We would spend all day outside, sledding and making snowmen!
Your salsa looks divine! Recipe please?!?
Honestly, I just dumped.
It was a mix of salsa looking ingredients, including:
onion
jalepenos
cherry tomatoes
can of rotel
bell pepper
cilantro
I think that was nearly everything, but I just put it all in the food processor and blended it well.
Yummy food pics! I love those little oyster crackers. 🙂 It snowed here (a little) this weekend – I don’t have any traditions though!
The pancakes look great! I love blueberry pancakes! Sounds like a perfect snow day!
Nothing beats a good snow day!
Yummy blueberry pancakes, chili, and baked apple pie! Mmmm
Jenna
I want those pancakes! RIGHT NOW. 🙂
Your salsa and chips look delicious. Yay, for snow. I would love some down this way…that’ll stick around for more than a day.
why are welcome my dear 🙂
grandma’s apple pies are the best though she fries her’s in oil while i went the healthy way, and baked them in the oven!
the chili was yummy wasn’t it!
Soooo good!!!!
please overnight me a baked apple pie por favor. amaze.
and i LOVE snow days. unfortunately, in the midwest, it has got to hella snow otherwise there is no excuse not to go about daily life. damn you wisconsin.
see you in threeeeeee dayyyyyyssssss!
love ya!
I will bring you one in THREEEEE DAYYYYYSSS!!!
AH YAY!
YAY SNOW! Im uber jealous the snows all melted here boo
😦
Um yea so no snowdays in Florida, but we’ve had our fair share of hurricane days…
Man I wish I could just whip up some amazing looking chips and salsa like that! It looks like restaurant quality!
I am so impressed that you just whipped up your own chips! You go girl!!! 🙂
yumm your homemade chips look FABULOUS! I pretended like i was snowed in yesterday and today- but I really was on saturday- i just hate having to deal with crazy drivers!
Yay for snow!!!! Jason and I pretended to be snowed in too lol. I know we were supposed to meet up, but hopefully it was kind of an “understood” thing that neither of us would’ve been able to make it! I would’ve called but I was busy staying in my jammies all day 😀 Maybe we could try again this weekend??
Mmmmm pancakes! We also had those on Saturday!
Oh yes…I just took it for granted we were not going to brave the conditions for a run. GAH how miserable that would be, no?
Let’s try for this weekend if it works out!
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Can you specify how many pancakes the recipe makes, was this serving for 1/2/3 people?
Thanks!
hmmm…4-6 people? Around 10-12 pancakes, I believe
Thanks! Have calculated the pancakes and comes to about 75cal per pancake (based on 10 pancakes). Yummm can’t wait to try this xoxo
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