Good Sunday morning!
I love mornings, especially weekend mornings. Never in my life have I been able to sleep in; sleeping until nine as a teenager was very rare for me. As I get older, I find it easier to wake up earlier and even more difficult to sleep in, even when I don’t get to bed until 12:30am (ahem, last night). But aren’t Sundays made for naps? I think a little cat nap on the couch is in my future.
Yesterday morning, I took advantage of the quiet morning to sit on our back deck and finish reading The Atlas of Love. Considering I started this book Thursday afternoon, you could say I really liked it.
This morning, I used my free, quiet time to make breakfast: zucchini bread pancakes. Smitten Kitchen has incredible recipes (including Brody’s favorite cookie recipe) and I stumbled upon this post yesterday. Her witty commentary about zucchini made me chuckle and nod my head in agreement.
Besides accidentally using three eggs instead of two (I spooned a little out), I followed the recipe exactly. As she suggests, I used half a cup of whole wheat flour and half a cup of white.
The recipe yielded twelve pancakes for me. They were thick, slightly doughy, and golden. I topped mine with plain yogurt mixed with maple syrup and blueberries.
Eight pancakes remain for Brody (if he ever wakes up).
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Questions:
What do you like to do weekend mornings?
How do you use the abundance of zucchinis in the summertime?
Girl, you know I’m swimming in zucchini down here haha. We use it in stir fry, soups, juices, pasta dishes, etc. I also like to shred it finely or use the mandolin and use it as noodles.
Weekend morning are the BEST (unless I have to work) – sleeping in until at least 7:30 or 8 and then relaxing, reading, cooking a good breakfast, catching up on blogs…I just love them!
They grow like weeds! I made the mistake of planting two of them the first year I did a garden and it was ridiculous. I didn’t even think to juice them – great idea!
Hopefully you were able to have a nice morning or two this weekend with your family
Thanks! We had TEN zucchini plants this year…yeah. We’ve been giving some away, but we do eat a ton of zukes.