Time to turn back the curtain a bit and take a look at what a Real Food family does for dinner when that dinner comes after a weekend where the usual shopping doesn’t happen. My former self certainly would have said, “Nothing in the house to eat, so where do you want to go?” I just can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t taste good to me anymore and all I can think about is how awful the ingredients are. I prefer to feed my family food that won’t slow them down. We are all too busy to get sick with bellyaches or even headaches. We all feel a lot better when we stick to our Real Food diet.
Now back to dinner…………It’s Girl Scout night and I work so dinner can’t take too long to make and the cupboards are bare. I often turn to breakfast recipes when I’m in this situation. My favorite pancake recipe requires bananas to sweeten it. Of course, I’m out of bananas. They don’t last long around here. Then, a light bulb went off. I have spelt flour that I’ve been wanting to try. I could make pancakes with spelt flour. Quick stop at the butcher shop for some bacon and we have a dinner that will even make the carnivores in the family happy.
Have you ever used Spelt flour? Arrowhead Mills makes an organic spelt flour. The package says it is “an ancient cousin to modern wheat.” They go on to say, “It was one of the first grains to be grown by early farmers.” It has a slight nutty flavor that I find very exciting. I find it a bit lighter in texture than whole wheat flour. That makes it perfect for baked goods and pancakes.
Here is the Cinnamon Spelt Pancake recipe that I used. We were all over the place, so we ended up eating in shifts. I made 2 batches and it was easy enough that cooking at 9:30PM really wasn’t that bad.
Cinnamon Spelt Pancakes
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Cup Arrowhead Mills Organic Spelt Flour
1 Cup Milk
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 Egg + 1 extra Egg white
1 1/2 Tbsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla
100% Real Maple Syrup (for serving)
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together (except the maple syrup). Heat large frying pan over medium high heat. Coat pan with melted butter to prevent sticking. Spoon out batter into skillet and flip pancake when bubbles start to form and edges start to look dry.
These pancakes were so good that I will have to make these a regular recipe for us. Maybe, just maybe…………..I will make them for breakfast sometime.
What are your last minute, few ingredient recipes that you turn to in a pinch? Have you ever used Spelt flour? Do you have a favorite Spelt flour recipe? I would love to hear from you. Drop me a line and let me know if you try the recipe. You might want to check out the Whole Grain Challenge, if you have not already.
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Wow. I've never even heard of Spelt flour and I consider myself a relatively healthy eater. Pancakes for dinner looks absolutely delish. Following on all fronts 🙂
Welcome! I hope you come back often. Give the spelt a try. I bet you like it. I would love to hear how it goes.
Those look good. We like to make banana jacks – one egg and one pancake. But, of course, you have to have bananas!
I'm intrigued. I need to know more about these banana jacks. By the way…….your comment about needing bananas cracked me up. Thanks. I needed that.
This looks delicious. I've never tried spelt flour. I'll have to pick some up the next time I'm at the store.
Let me know how you like it. Wonderful source of additional nutrition.
Those pancakes look so very good! I'm going to try that recipe! Thank you and blessings!
Blessings to you as well. Let me know what you think after you make them. We love cinnamon in our house so I may have added a little extra.
At first I thought you had written smelt flour.. I was going to ask you what made you even want to try such a thing!
Smelt flour! LOL! You don't know how many times I had to go back and double-check that I was spelling spelt correctly. I didn't want to mess up that word. Smelt pancakes wouldn't be good no matter how much cinnamon I put in them.
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Hi there. Welcome. Good detective work to find me. My facebook was hacked, but I got it back on track. It can happen anywhere. I joke that it's Monsanto (the chemical and GMO seed company) out to get me for telling people to buy organic.
Ooh! Cinnamon and vanilla in pancakes! I must try this! Thanks for sharing!!
~Heather
You won't be disappointed. They are so good! I am a big fan of cinnamon though. Everything tastes better with cinnamon if you ask me.
I am so glad you shared this!! I have not tried spelt yet but always use wheat! I will pick some up to try!! we do breakfast for dinner at least one a week–i am a sucker for pancakes so its my favorite dinner :)I am giving away free ad spots on my site – use code SWAPIT if you are interested…we have the same mission so i would be happy to have you on the site!!
I usually use whole wheat flour for my pancakes. They are really good. The spelt flour gave it a slighly more cake-like texture which I enjoyed. Give it a try sometime.
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Oh, now THIS is a good idea! I've not tried using spelt before, but will definitely consider it! Thank you so much for submitting this recipe to the Tasty Tuesday's link party! 🙂 This week's link party has just been submitted, so please come back and link up with us; we'd love to have you!
Thanks for stopping by Anyonita. Give the spelt a try. I bet you will be a new fan of the spelt. LOL! I enjoy visiting your page as well. See you over there soon!
I have never tried Spelt Flour before and you make it sound so good! These pancakes look divine – thank you so much for linking them up at Tasty Tuesday. 🙂
Thank you so much for linking up with me this week at Tasty Tuesdays! I’ve pinned this & shared it with my followers! Please be sure to stop back by tomorrow & link up your best “man food” recipes in honor of Father’s Day!
Spelt flour? first time i heard about it. Very interesting. I would like to thank you for joining the Pin It Monday Hop Pinterest Party. Please come by sometime(if your time permits) and check what other bloggers are sharing. See you.
Judy
I just made these, added a tsp of stevia and a Tbs of milled flax seed, they were excellent AND they passed the picky husband test! Thanks for sharing!
I am so glad they passed the picky husband test. That's how we know it's a really good recipe!