Saturday mornings, I like to play housewife. Instead of telling Carlo “make your own breakfast. You’re a grown man,” I get out of bed and cheerfully mix flour and baking powder together to make a weekend feast. Sometimes it’s muffins, but usually it’s pancakes because they come together so fast and cook quickly enough that my hunger doesn’t overwhelm my good intentions. When the food is ready, we douse our pancakes in maple syrup, sprinkle a little sugar on our lattes, and curl up in armchairs with our plates on our laps. It’s a good way to start a Saturday.
Last time I made these pancakes, I used whole wheat flour. This time I used all-purpose. It’s good both ways, but the whole wheat does make them a bit heavier. They’re very filling because of the oatmeal, which adds a rich creaminess that goes really well with tart grated Granny Smith apples.
1/2 cup flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 large egg, beaten
1 1/2 cups cooked oatmeal (I use instant oatmeal, but this would be great with rolled oats)
3/4 cup milk
1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and grated
unsalted butter
Preheat a skillet on medium heat.
Mix together flour, salt and baking soda. Add wet ingredients and mix gently.
Melt a generous pat of butter onto the skillet and pour batter in 1/4-1/2 cup servings onto skillet. Allow to cook until bubbles show on one side, then flip and cook on the other side until both sides are golden. Flip pancakes onto a plate, cover with maple syrup, and relax.
*By the way, can you tell we just bought a new camera? You could if you looked at any of our earlier posts. It’s a Canon Powershot G7, and we loooove it. But now that we have no excuses about image quality, any ugly photos are entirely our own faults. I’d love to hear some food photo tips!*
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October 14, 2007 at 3:06 am
Leif
WOW that looks delicious. The recipe kind of reminds me of the apple pancakes from that Moosehead book, which are delicious but for some reason are hard to cook probably (at least for me). I will have to try this recipe.
And by the way that picture is great! I like the slightly out of focusness.
October 14, 2007 at 1:18 pm
hannehanne
Leif,
The out of focusness is probably just a result of our camera-ineptness, but thanks! I think the picture’s pretty good too (Carlo took it).
Do you mean the apple-cottage cheese pancakes from Moosewood? Mine always get a little blackened. I think it’s because they’re so moist… they have to cook on a low temperature for a longer time, and like I said, I’m impatient.
February 22, 2008 at 1:13 am
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February 22, 2008 at 10:36 am
andreea
guess what i am making tomorrow morning? :)
February 25, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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February 26, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Miss Scarlett
After seeing these, it’s inevitable: I am making them for dinner.
February 26, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Miss Scarlett
I made these tonight and…well, something went wrong. Perhaps my oatmeal had too much water in it? They were impossibly runny and didn’t set up in the pan. I was soooo disappointed b/c your picture made me hungry for them all day!
February 26, 2008 at 11:15 pm
hannehanne
Miss Scarlett,
That’s too bad! My bet would be on the oatmeal too. I make mine really thick. The other option might be just to cut back on the milk, I guess.
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July 18, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Larissa
I used uncooked oatmeal/rolled oats and added a scoopful of protein powder and 2 tblespoons of chia seeds… It was delicious!! Low cooking time and nice, thick pancakes. Awesome recipe, thank you! xx