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Quinoa pumpkin pancakes

OK, so it looks like most of my favorite meals are breakfasts. It is true that on most weekends I’ll come up with an idea based on some ingredient we have and Google around until I find something that looks good.

Today we had some pumpkin left over from last weekend and just found out about quinoa. I saw a few recipes around the similar to this, but they either didn’t have pumpkin, or used quinoa flour. So here’s our version:

Quinoa pumpkin pancakes

Cook 1/2 cup quinoa (1/2 c raw + 1 c water, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10-15min. Start it and mix the rest of the stuff and it will be ready to add in at the end.*)

In a bowl mix:

  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2tsp ground ginger

Add in:

  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tbs melted butter or oil
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1.5 cup milk
  • 1.5 tsp lemon juice
  • And the cooked quinoa

Mix it all up and adjust the consistency as needed. Cook in pan, top with maple syrup or whatever you like.

* Under normal circumstances it probably wouldn’t take 10-15 minutes to mix this up, but this morning we had a standoff in the kitchen with the kids arguing over who got to add the baking powder: Kid 2 brandishing the open container of baking powder, Kid 1 refusing to relinquish the measuring spoons! My attempts to mediate the situation were futile and kids were banished from the kitchen…

Pumpkin Omelets

We love pumpkin, and are always looking for new ways to incorporate it into meals. We make pumpkin pancakes and muffins a fair bit, but this morning I wanted to use some of the abundance of eggs that we have…

I found this recipe for pumpkin omelets. They were really good. We tripled the recipe for the 4 of us and made a few small modifications:

  • 6 eggs
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp real maple syrup
  • 1.5 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • 3 Tbs caramel syrup
  • 3 oz cream cheese

Mix all but the cream cheese together and when firm add the cream cheese in small chunks, fold remove from heat and cover. Let set for a couple of minutes.