Easy Oatmeal Pancakes🥞

Yes, I put whipped cream on pancakes.😃
I make designs too...

Well, hello again.😊 It's been a while... I've ghosted👻my blog yet again, what a surprise,🙄 but this time I'm gonna try and stay committed.😏 I've had a lot to say and a lot on my mind, but going through a lot, so my mind is elsewhere.🤪 Not sure how to wrap my mind around everything I want to say.

I do, however, wanna share my latest concoction, which is so yummy😋and easy to make. I've been meaning to do an update on my weight loss progress...that's on my blog to-do-list as well.🙄

I've lost a lot of weight...but still have a little more to go. We're getting there.🙃 During my weight loss journey, I've made oatmeal a daily part of my life, whether it be a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast or oatmeal in a smoothie for breakfast/lunch. Saturdays are our pancake day and I'll never give up pancake day. I still eat pancakes.😏 So I decided to incorporate oatmeal into our pancakes as an experiment to see how it would taste and most importantly, to see if my kids would like it.

The verdict is in...they l❤️ved it, so I've done it a couple of times now and as you know with oatmeal, there's many things you can mix into the oatmeal to make it yummy, like raisins and cinnamon, or craisins, or bananas, or strawberries, etc., so many ideas! The day I made it for the first time, one child had bananas chopped up in hers, one had raisins and bananas with cinnamon, and I did the same except I added walnuts on top of mine too - so yummy!😋

I will add that I'm perfectly capable of making pancakes from scratch, but I mainly do the boxed pancakes. Not gonna lie...

So here's how you make easy oatmeal pancakes...

Lazy Girl Oatmeal Pancakes

A work in progress.

Ingredients:

1 cup pancake mix (double ingredients if you're making more than one cup - I actually made 3 cups, but this is just as a guide!)
1/2 cup rolled oats
About 1 cup water (use one cup and slowly pour and stir till you get the perfect texture-I found that 1 cup of water was actually perfect with the pancake mix and rolled oats)
Anything to dress your darling pancake up: sliced bananas, sliced strawberries, a handful of blueberries, raisins, craisins, fresh cranberries, cinnamon - you get the picture!
Toppings: I've recently added sliced almonds, shredded coconut, walnuts, and of course, whipped cream for the taste and to make designs with...

Directions:

Self-explanatory-I'm sure you know how to cook pancakes! But if by some chance this is your first-time making pancakes, just follow the instructions on the box. I cook my pancakes on low-heat and if I multi-task...then I sometimes forget and...well...we have to start all over again.🙄🤪Moral to the story, keep a close eye. One of my daughter's asked me recently, how do you know when they're done, and I told her when they get the little bubbles. And you can always take a peak under the pancake as well, using the spatula to see how it looks, so you have the perfect pancake and don't have to start all over again...🙄🤪

If you give it a try, I hope you enjoy! Definitely a keeper in my home!

With Love,

Carmen

Easy Pumpkin Pancakes🥞

It's been a while...long time no see. Haven't felt the desire to blog...I apologize to anyone who actually reads my stuff...

But I've had some ideas lately and what I made for breakfast this morning combined with the fact that "pumpkin season" is almost over gave me the motivation and desire to blog what we had for breakfast this morning...ha.😃

One of my "ideas" was to add a new recipe section for those times when I've experimented and concocted awesome easy recipes for "lazy" moments in life, or moments where maybe, perhaps (coughs) we don't have enough on hand to make said recipe from scratch...or we just don't feel like it. Today I was game for making homemade pumpkin pancakes from scratch, but behold...surprise, surprise, Carmen forgot something...flour. Can you believe? Who doesn't have flour in their pantry?

Apparently I ran out and it's been a while since I needed to use it, so here we are ready to make homemade pumpkin pancakes and there's no flour. But then...a little light bulb💡went off in my head, and I said, what if I use "boxed pancake mix" and then add in the other ingredients?🤔

And so, the experiment began...lazy girl pumpkin pancakes.🧐 And, voila, they were delicious,😋so I wanted to share. What I did was I shopped around for pumpkin pancake recipes before realizing I was out of flour.

I wrote down the recipe I wanted to use, and then combined some helpful tips and adjustments from people who tried the recipes and mixed up the recipes because they were fairly similar, adding in some things that others didn't have or omitting something that I didn't feel I needed or didn't like, like vinegar, that was in a few of the recipes but I omitted it.

And so, let the fun begin...here we go...🥳

Easy Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe🥞

4 Cups of Pancake Mix
1-15oz can of pure pumpkin
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1-1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
3-4 cups of water (when you get to the fourth cup, pour a little at a time till you get the right texture, not too thick, not too watered down.)
Optional: I found these in other recipes and decided to include them, but you don't have to. 3tbsp melted butter; 3tbsp maple syrup.
Also Optional! You could add in some fresh cranberries, diced apples, banana, etc. Yum... Next time I plan on adding in cranberries.
Also, also optional: Instead of using nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon, you can use "allspice." I didn't have allspice, so I made my own. To make your own allspice, you just simply combine equal parts of all three of the above: nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Never realized how easy it was to do till I realized I didn't have that either and had to make mine from scratch!

I hope this helps someone out there like it helped me. Enjoy your easy pumpkin pancakes!😃

With Love,

💖Carmen