One of my favourite breakfasts for 2016 has been pancakes!
I love pancakes!

I try to make them as a treat on weekends.

I’m not a big fan of decadent recipes, I prefer them pretty plain, with the least amount of sugar and fat in them; but with toppings that I like. Though I will admit to indulging cream with them sometimes. Also, my favourite pancakes are American style; thick, fluffy, yummy!

Maple syrup is a must! I’m not sure that honey would go with American style. I quite like adding nuts or nut butters on the plate. Fruits are wonderful and healthy, the obvious addition to pancakes would be blueberries or strawberries. Bananas work well too, and I imagine peaches would be a dream.

Last year I had gluten free flour and so I experimented making a gluten and dairy free recipe from All Recipes here . This was during a restrictive diet to see if certain food groups caused me an issue, health wise. They were really nice pancakes actually.

I was in Montana in August 2014, and a hotel made me some gluten free pancakes for breakfast. Unfortunately they were horrible! They must have been the worst pancakes I have ever tried.

I finally visited the famous American IHoP (International House of Pancakes) in February of this year. I’m not usually a critic of food and for the foods I actually like, I’m not awfully picky. The pancakes I tried here though were disappointing. I found them to be rather salty, which was odd. To compensate, I doused on more syrup, which could be the point..?

(I tried all their syrups, hence the different colours!)

Also in February this year, I was served what I think could be the perfect breakfast, when I visited Coober Peedy in South Australia.

A pancake with scrambled eggs, hash browns, tomato and syrup!

I have some photos of previous batches:

Banana, strawberry, cream and maple syrup

Blueberry and maple syrup

Banana, chia seeds, macadamia nuts and maple syrup

I did try to have nice presentation.. I quickly took the photos so that I could hurry up and eat them!

I did experiment in early summer; I tried making those ‘3 ingredient pancakes’ constituting of bananas, egg and flour. They were alright but to be honest they tasted a lot like a banana omelette!

The most recent style that I have tried now that it is Autumn and in season, are Pumpkin pancakes! I don’t have a photo, but you can type them in to Pinterest and produce lots of photos.

The recipe that I now follow is this . Though if I’m avoiding too much dairy I will reduce the amount of milk, I always halve the recipe anyway.

Maple strawberry

Strawberry, pecan nuts and maple syrup

So in summary, I don’t see how they can be that bad for you.. If you don’t go overboard on the sugar and fat anyway. I’ve always liked the idea of making them with oats, I wonder how they would taste? They taste nice in pumpkin pancakes.

Happy Autumn!

Amy