Cottage Cheese Pananacakes = Pancakes with Cottage Cheese and Bananas
Sounds disgusting right? Right.
Different than your average pancake? Most definitely.
You're probably wondering why cottage cheese pancakes. Well I can give you a hint: Matt Kittoe. Who is Matt Kittoe? Well, I work with him and he is Michaels' bffeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeae! He eats healthy and is getting in shape (as we speak). He is always talking about cottage cheese pancakes. They are healthy for you. I don't know how really but they are. They consist of cottage cheese, eggs, a little flour, a little baking powder, and your choice of salt or sugar. My lovely assistant Michael and I decided on a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar and also added a whole banana. << Yum Yum Potassi-YUM!!!
We told my mom we were going to be making pancakes and she decided out of the kindness of her heart that she would supply the funds for this tasty adventure. She also supplied the funds for the Flan. Thanks Mom!
Here is a tip from her to the world that she tells me every time I go out at night:
"Be Aware of Your Surroundings."
Well first the recipe said to mix the 2 eggs and 1 1/2 cups of cottage cheese together. I did the cottage cheese and Michael used his one-handed cracking skills (sexy!) with the eggs that were put into one mixing bowl. Whisked it up a little, then added 1 teaspoon of baking POWDER. (This is very important because if you use baking SODA when it calls for POWDER, you will mess the whole recipe up. No matter what you are baking. That's real talk!) Once that was all mixed up, I quartered a whole banana and chopped the banana into small pieces, whisked it up a little more, then it was time to start cookin'.
I don't have a griddle so we used a large non-stick frying pan. Works just as well, just less space. A few more ingredients we used were leftovers: coconut from our Flan, sliced almonds my mom had left over from making cookies, and Fruit Loops. Yep. You heard me. Fruit Loops.
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| I wasn't yankin' your chain :) |
Well, we got the pan nice and hot and added a little canola oil. It called for vegetable oil but I didn't have that so canola was our only option. My dad is an awesome pancake maker and so he's always taught me that when making pancakes, drop only a dime-sized bit of batter onto the pan. That way, you can tell if the pan and oil is hot enough and ready to go. You will know it's hot enough because the sides of the dime-sized drop will start cooking and turning light brown. Once that little bit did exactly what we were looking for, the fun began. At first we did 2 pancakes at a time then moved up to four pancakes at a time. You will know the pancakes are ready to flip when you see bubbles appear through the batter and end up on top. So I tried the first flip and I messed it up. From there I let Michael watch the pancakes because he's a pretty good pancaker himself. So I grabbed the coconut, almonds, and fruit loops. We had a few pancakes with just coconut, a few with just almond, and a few with almond and coconut. The last of the batter made one more pancake and that was the one with the fruit loops.
When all of the pancakes were done cooking, we divided the pancakes up between us. I had heard that honey was good on pancakes along with being a healthy alternative to syrup. I tried it on one and it wasn't my thing. So I stuck to Mrs. Butterworths syrup and so did Michael. On the side we had some chopped strawberries and kiwi.
After we both tried all of our choices of pancakes, we agreed that surprisingly, the fruit loop pancake was our favorite. It gave the pancake sweetness, color, and an all-around great taste. It was one of those things, don't judge it 'til you try it. My second favorite was the almond pancake.
Going into this, I didn't know what to expect because I thought, "Cottage cheese? In pancakes? This should be interesting." My mouth just didn't know what to expect. But the fact is, if you came to eat these pancakes, and we didn't tell you that there was cottage cheese in the pancakes we made you, you would never know there was cottage cheese in the pancakes you had just devoured. I could taste the banana but not the cottage cheese.
Sometimes you have to just jump and try something new without thinking yourself out of it. Now if only I could apply that to life and not just food. I think that should be my new motto. Because when you eat, you do so much more than chew, digest, and be happy. You have to taste. You have to think. Sometimes fall in love. So this week, try something new. Anything. Don't think, just Do.
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