So many of us try to eat low carb (when we aren't busy chowing down on Girl Scout cookies that is), so I thought we could try another FLOURLESS pancake recipe. My daughter, Carly, loves this recipe from the book, The Vertue Method, and of course it has only four ingredients! With St. Patrick's Day coming up, I thought it would be fun to make the pancakes green and in the shape of 4 leaf clovers! (They make green eggs and ham, and green beer so why not green pancakes?) Here’s how you make them:
4 egg whites
2 large bananas
2 rounded scoops of vanilla protein powder
2 level teaspoons of cinnamon
Turn a stove eye on medium, put a skillet on the eye and cover the bottom with a thin film of oil. Next put all ingredients in a bullet or blender and blend well. You then make the pancakes as you would any pancakes.
I like to use a 1/4 measuring cup and pour batter into the skillet slowly so they make a nice uniform shape. I also turn the heat down to medium low after the first set of pancakes are made. In addition, a big metal spatula seems to make flipping the pancakes easier. They are good with butter and syrup, or just butter. (Recipe makes about 8 medium sized pancakes.)
A Word About Green Dye And Four Leaf Clovers
If you want to make your pancakes actually green, you will need to add 6 or more drops of green dye to the batter. (Take it from me: if you are going to work with food dye cover your hands with something. I still have green dye under my finger nails from a week ago! ) To make the four leaf clover shapes I used a large cookie cutter from Amazon. (Amazon Prime is super convenient! Maybe too convenient!)
Looking Back
Want an additional FLOURLESS (4 ingredient) pancake recipe? Check out last Spring's yummy Banana-Almond Butter Pancakes. Flourless never tasted so good!
Helpful Hints For the Home (Powerful Products)
A while back I mentioned that I would regularly throw out a 'Helpful Hint For the Home', and occasionally I run across a "Powerful Product" that I want to jump up and down about. One such product is the "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser". Remember that giant in white with one earring? He is now touting the "Magic Eraser". It gets scuff marks off your doors and walls when nothing else will. Just try it for yourself. I'm telling you it's "magic"!
Funny Irish Story
My husband, Todd, lived in Ireland for 2 years while he was getting his M.A. in Classics. One St. Patrick's Day, he asked his landlady about how she planned to celebrate (assuming it was a big deal in Ireland). She said, "Yes--so excited--I'm going to watch the St. Patrick 's Day Parade from New York on the 'telly"!
