Snowy Day Breakfast Idea

A snowstorm hit last night and this morning I decided I would start a new tradition of making waffles on cold wintery mornings. I love waffles and I had hoped this would cheer me up from the rather drab and bitter cold wintery snowstorm outside my kitchen window.

Waffles, it turns out, are a hard to find recipe when you don't stock sugar and delightful pantry items that you might use. All I have is hard core healthy stuff, like organic wheat flour, steel cut organic oats, organic raisens.....

Thanks to Whole Foods Helpful Recipe collection, I quickly found a fun looking recipe for super easy Oatmeal-Apple Pancakes with Maple Syrup. With a food processor, they were a snap to make and tasted really good. Plus, they were actually seriously healthy!



Here is the recipe, but I modified it just a tad as I like to do. Even now, I have lots of fun ideas:

2 cups Organic Steel Cut Oats
1 c. applesauce
2 eggs (Omega 3 enriched, cage free)
4 Tb. pure maple syrup ( I used the Organic Nature's Promise from Giant)
1/2 - 1 T. Butter for frying
1/4 - 1/2 c. raisins

-I pureed the first four ingredients in my blender for one to two minutes.
-Then, after melting butter, I poured 2 Tb. for each pancake and make a total of 12 using this doubled recipe batch. For half of the pancakes, I sprinkled raisins on top of the uncooked side, and flipped it over frying them in.
-Serve with maple syrup and if you want to a sprinkle of cinnamon.

*You can alternate the applesauce with pumpkin and replace the raisins with walnuts and cranberries.
-OR-
*You can alternate the applesauce with any fruit puree and switch out the raisins with nuts, chocolate chips, and/ or a dried fruit to complement the fruit puree you choose.