Spiced Up Sweet Potato Pancakes with Honey and Toasted Pecans

Sweet potatoes! Something to get excited about! No, really, they are! Made by the earth (not some factory), they're loaded with nutrients, including a LOT of Vitamin A and beta-carotene.  These pancakes are topped with locally grown honey and toasted pecans (also courtesy of the earth) and they're delicious. Nothing in them comes from chemically loaded processed foods devoid of nutrients and they contain no refined sugars. No cravings caused by junk food here plus they contain the nutrition your body wants.

SPICED UP SWEET POTATO PANCAKES

1/2 cup cooked and mashed sweet potato

1/4 cup organic wheat flour

2 eggs

1 packet of stevia

1/4 tsp aluminum free baking powder

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground ginger

Milk of your choice (I used unsweetened cashew milk)

Mix the potatoes and eggs and flour together until no lumps remain adding just enough milk to make it a pourable batter. Add the remaining ingredients and cook just like any other pancake. This recipe makes 3 but 2 were plenty for me. Top them with honey and toasted pecans (I toasted mine by putting them in a dry skillet and shaking them around on the hot stove burner until they were crispy). Yum!!

Multi-grain Pancake with Strawberry Sauce

This is so good! I love this pancake, especially in the summer. And, if you have it in the winter it  will remind you of summer. A favorite of mine and it's fast!

Strawberry Sauce -

1 cup of frozen sliced strawberries

1/2 - 1 packet of stevia OR 1 tsp of local organic honey

1 tsp of natural arrowroot (I used Bob's Red Mill for this)

Stir the berries and powdered ingredients together and microwave for 45 seconds. Stir and microwave for 45 more seconds. Let cool.

Pancake

2 T organic white flour (I used Gold N White that I got from Country Life Natural Foods made by Natural Way Mills)

1 T organic stone ground or old fashioned oats (I used Bob's Red Mill)

1 T organic kamut flour (I used Bob's Red Mill)

1 tsp aluminum free baking soda

dash of salt

1/4 cup of filtered water

Mix all together and pour the batter into a lightly oiled (light olive or coconut oil) hot griddle or skillet until bubbly on top. Flip over and finish cooking. 

Top with real butter (organic, grass fed dairy, if possible) and spread the cooled strawberry sauce over the pancake and enjoy!

BREAKFAST!!

I can't speak for everybody but I get up hungry. A a bowl of processed sugary cereal loaded with chemicals and preservatives that has been made from GMO grains is something I avoid. To eat that would make me wonder what I did to make myself mad at myself.  Plus, if I did that not only would I feel like I was poisoning myself but by 9:30 I'd be STARVING and looking for the donuts and there would go the entire day. I have to go to work so that means that whatever I fix is going to have to be pretty fast. This morning it was potato and mushroom hash topped with a poached egg that I get from the local lady who raises chickens.  Recipe for the hash - 1 chopped (organic if possible) red potato, two chopped baby portabello mushrooms and a tablespoon of chopped onion.

Add three chopped sage leaves or 1/4 tsp of dried sage if you don't have fresh sage.Cook in 1 tsp of coconut oil and top with a poached egg. Add some fresh fruit and a cup of coffee and it's breakfast that will stave off the cravings and keep you going until lunch. However, if this isn't a big enough breakfast for you, have a bigger breakfast. By lunchtime you're still going to get hungry. At least you should. You're supposed to get hungry. It's the cravings we seek to eliminate and there's a big difference between an empty tummy that's growling and cravings that make you look for a fix.