Cook Share and Feast

Ingredients

Banana Topping:

• 2 medium bananas
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ¼ cup walnuts broken into 2 or 3 pieces
• 1 oz butter
• 2 tablespoons sweetened coconut flakes lightly toasted

Pancake mix:

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 egg whites
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 cup 1% milk
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• pinch of salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• butter or oil spray for skillet

Method

Pancakes:

• beat the egg whites slightly
• add milk, sugar and oil and mix well
• in a separate bowl sift together flour, salt and baking powder
• add milk mixture slowly into the flour mixture stirring continuously
• add a little bit of butter on to a skillet and add a spoonful of batter and cook on both side until nice and brown
• make all the pancakes and keep them warm until you are finished with the topping

Topping:

• cut the bananas diagonally into thick slices
• in a skillet melt butter and add maple syrup
• boil on low flame for about 2 minutes
• add bananas and walnuts and cook for another 3 – 4 minutes

For serving stack 2 or 3 pancakes on a plate and top with banana topping.  Sprinkle with coconut flakes

Yields 3 servings

I used the same ingredients as for normal sweet French toast (see below recipe).  But replaced the sugar and vanilla with a bit of salt and ground black pepper.  Also instead of using butter, I used sesame seed oil.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons 1% milk
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
• dash of salt
• 4 slices whole wheat bread
• 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
• butter to spread

Method

• combine milk, eggs, salt, and pepper in a flat dish until they are incorporated
• soak the bread slices for about 1 minute in the egg mixture on each side
• add a ¼ teaspoon sesame seed oil to the skillet and fry the soaked bread slice on each side until nice and brown
• repeat for the rest of the bread slices
• spread little bit butter on each French toast

Ingredients

For the blueberry sauce:

• 2 cups fresh blueberries
• ¼ cup water
• ½ tablespoon white sugar

For the French toast:

• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons 1% milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• 4 slices whole wheat bread
• little bit of butter

Method

Sauce:

• combine blueberries, sugar and water and cook for about 10 minutes or until the sauce thickens
• mash blueberries with the back of a spoon
• set aside

French toast:

• combine milk, eggs, vanilla, and sugar in a flat dish until they are incorporated
• soak the bread slices for about 1 minute in the egg mixture on each side
• add a little butter to the skillet and fry the soaked bread slices on each side until they are nice and brown
• put the French toasts on a plate and top with blueberry sauce