Recipe: Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes

Who needs Bisquick?

Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes

Sift together:
1 1/2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
Cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon or to taste (optional)

Separately, combine:
2 eggs
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 to 1 1/4 cups soy or other non-dairy milk

Combine dry and liquid ingredients quickly, stirring with a fork. After mixing, stir into to this mixture:

1 ripe banana, chopped into small pieces

cook as you usually would for pancakes, on a hot non-stick pan, lightly greased by rubbing a canola-oil-soaked paper towel around on the hot pan. Flip pancakes and cook on other side a bit after pancakes bubble, and before they get too dark. Regrease the pan after each pancake.

Serve as you like with syrup and vegan margarine; or, as I often do, topped with powdered sugar sprinkled from a sieve.

Recipe: Pumpkin Muffins

These muffins freeze well for a convenient snack or travel food. This recipe also doubles well.

Pumpkin Muffins

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Grease a non-stick muffin tin(with 12 holes), or fill a muffin tin with paper liners.

Mix together dry ingredients:
1 cup white flour
3/4 cup wheat flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar

In a separate bowl, mix together wet ingredients:
1 cup canned pumpkin (about a half of a can)
2 eggs (or egg replacer)
1/3 cup oil
3/4 cup soy milk or other non-dairy milk

Combine wet and dry ingredients, be sure not to overmix or they muffins will be tough; stir until just mixed. Pour into muffin tin. Bake approx. 20 minutes or until muffins are done (adjust this time by testing centers of muffins with a toothpick). Makes 12 muffins.

Recipe: Buckwheat Pancakes

Most Pancake recipes require milk or buttermilk. Here's a good and healthy substitute.

Buckwheat Pancakes

1 cup buckwheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 cup soymilk
1 1/2 tbsp. canola oil

stir until mixed with a fork.

I fried them up with just the barest amount of oil ( rub it with a oily paper towel) and after, top then with powdered sugar sprinkled through a sieve, which you only need a little of and is less sweet than syrup.