I know many folk will be posting about their special Easter treats or dinners or brunches. I would be joining them if I had the time or energy to make something special today. However, I am an over-worked woman. I attended a 3-day conference/meeting Thursday – Saturday for work, working late both Thursday and Friday nights. While probably the most fun conference out there, it was still exhausting. Then hubby whisked the girls and me off to Kohl’s and Sears to go shopping after I got home Saturday – I was too tired to protest (I’m not much of a shopper – just ask my hubby). We shopped in the teen section for E for the first time, and survived! As my reward, hubby bought me a Kitchen Aid food processor ;-).
So, instead of picking one of the 30 or 40 new recipes I have stored on my desktop for a special Easter Sunday meal, I made an old stand-by. A stand-by that is perfect for a woman as over-worked as I’ve been these last few weeks keeping up with my busiest month at work while maintaining some fraction of peace with the kids and order in a home where the entire upstairs had to be boxed for carpet install (but the carpet looks and feels so good that the work was all worth it!).
The old stand-by? Pancakes. Brown Sugar Whole Wheat Oatmeal Pancakes.
BROWN SUGAR WHOLE WHEAT OATMEAL PANCAKES
- Soak 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats in 3/4 cup buttermilk for 10 minutes (if no buttermilk, put 1/2 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar in measuring cup and fill with milk of your choice to make 3/4 cup).
- In a large bowl, sift together 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 3/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Add 1 large egg, 2 Tablespoons melted margarine, 2 Tablespoons brown sugar, and the oat/milk mixture to the dry ingredients with an additional 3/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons buttermilk (or the milk of your choice mixed with apple cider vinegar like above) and mix well. Batter will be thin.
- Pour 1/4 cup-fulls onto heated griddle or large non-stick skillet.
- Cook until the undersides are just golden-brown (these won’t bubble as much as other pancakes do when they’re ready to flip).
- Flip and cook other side, then serve with either fruit, powdered sugar, or like we do, with butter pecan syrup.
These are the only pancakes I like. They’re filling, heart-healthy, and have just a touch of brown sugar sweetness. Heaven on a breakfast plate. Especially for an over-worked woman. 🙂
The girls did get to hunt eggs for Easter – special thanks to our neighbors for inviting them over to hunt eggs with their girls while I was knee-deep in the massive numbers of books I own, trying to put them on the bookshelves in some semblance of order. To repay the generosity, after I finished putting the bookshelves back in order, I took the girls to see Rio for an afternoon treat. What a cute, sweet movie!
Now, my house is 98% back in order, the family is happily full from Saturday’s Mexican Chicken Soup leftovers, there are enough leftover pancakes for the girls’ breakfast tomorrow, and my body is telling me it’s at the physical exhaustion state and needs sleep.
I’d like to thank my hubby for making the girls’ lunch today while I was buried in stacks of books, my neighbors for generously including the girls in their Easter egg hunt, T for the link to the Mexican Chicken Soup that made such good leftovers, and the theater for being open on Easter so I could take the girls out for an afternoon movie as a little treat.
If you’re an over-worked woman, how do you balance work, family, and keeping your home in working order? Who helps on your busiest of days?
~Ingredients to nourish the body put together in ways to nourish the soul to share with family and friends to nourish the heart~
You are so welcome! Glad your family liked the soup, and what a wonderful blog. Can’t wait to try a few of your recipes… 😉
Thanks! Hope you enjoy anything you try from here.
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