Eggless Wholewheat Pancakes

Happy weekend, everyone!
So for today's breakfast, I decided to try taking eggs out of my pancakes, just for the sake of cutting down the cholestrol and calorie intake a little, (and maybe eat that egg seperately, just saying). The result was better than I imagined.
This is a very easy recipe, simple enough to follow without looking back at your phone/ipad/tablet to double-check its ingredients/procedures every 2 minutes. They're super fluffy and just sweet enough for them not to be too sweet nor too non-sweet, if you know what I mean.

Here it goes.

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup wholewheat flour
2. 1 Tbs sugar substitute
3. 1 Tbs baking powder
4. 1 cup skimmed milk
5. 1 Tbs oil
6. 3 Tbs water
7. 1 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Procedures:

● Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon) in a small bowl.
● Whisk wet ingredients together, then add them to the dry ones and use a spatula to mix everything well.
● Scarcely oil (or use cooking spray on) a non-stick pan, and use a 1/4 measuring cup to unify the size of your pancakies.
● Flip your pancake when bubbles start forming on the surface.
● Yields about 5-6 small pancakes.
● Serve with fruit, yogurt, applesauce, or melted dark chocolate for a healthy breakfast, snack or dessert.

Please leave me a note if you try it.

xoxoxo

Valentine's Day Breakfast

Hi again everyone,

I hope you had the most romantic Valentine's Day ever, even if it was just a nice moment with a loved one, family, or friends.

If you haven't seen my last post, I put up this menu that I so bravely said I'd do on Val's, but I ended up skipping a couple of items due to running out of time.

Here's what I actually did:

Breakfast:

- Eggs in heart baskets

A cliche, but such a cute one! Super easy and looks like you've  done a little magic to put it together.

First of all, you'll need to separate the egg yolks and whites. I did two at a time, so I used 4 bowls to separate 2 eggs to make sure no accidents happen.

I used whole-grain toast for this one, but you're free to use whichever bread you fancy.
(Very) lightly butter 2 slices, and put over medium heat in a non-stick skillet. Once golden brown, take both slices off the skillet, butter the uncooked side of each, then use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut a heart out of each. Put both back in skillet with the cut-out hearts, cooked side up. You're now ready to add the eggs.

The key to getting picture-perfect results is to add a little bit of whites first, wait for a few second for it to harden, then add the egg yolk. You can add your seasoning at this point. I used salt, pepper and oregano.
Cover the skillet to help eggs set faster.  Serve immediately.

- Mini heart-shaped sandwiches with pink cheese frosting.

I basically used a heart-shaped cookie cutter, one size smaller than the one used above, to cut hearts out of whole-grain toast, and made light cheddar and salami sandwiches.

To decorate them,I used a plastic icing pipe/syringe (more fool-proof than piping bags) to draw a heart on each sandwich using my pink cheese frosting (light feta cheese mixed with beetroot powder) and a star tip for the icing pipe.


- I-Love-you Breakfast Parfait

 This was the easiest and most beautiful little breakfast dessert.

All you need is:
- 6 strawberries
- 2 low-fat vanilla (or regular yogurt)
- 2 low-fat strawberry yogurt
- 4 light digestive biscuits

1. Chop 5 strawberries, and slice the 6th for garnish.
2. Crumble the biscuits into larger crumbs. Set 2 dashes aside for garnish.
3. Your'e now ready to assemble your parfaits. Start by adding a layer of chopped strawberries, followed by vanilla yogurt, then more strawberries, followed by biscuits, and the last layer would be the strawberry yogurt.
4. Garnish with strawberry slices and biscuit crumbs. Cinnamon would be a nice addition too.
5. To make heart-shaped strawberry slices, cut a tiny triangle off the top of the strawberry, then slice it as you would normally slice a strawberry. Voila!

You'll need To finish it off, I wrote "I Love You xoxoxo" using a permanent marker on the glass for a personalized touch.