Eat real food.

Ok. I was gonna wait, but if you’re celebrating passover, you’ll just have to print this out and make them Sunday morning.

The pancakes didn’t look the way “traditional” white flour and baking powder or baking soda pancakes look, with a beautiful golden finish. They looked more like this picture (which is from wikimedia, not actually a picture of ours, because I forgot to get one before they were all eaten.)

But they tasted awesome. I’ve been on a quest to make real food, and I wondered if you could make pancakes without baking powder (whatever the heck that is), and it turns out yes, you can, and they’re delicious. They even got the stamp of approval from my picky kid who thinks all this healthy food is really a bad idea. (I was shocked!)

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 2 3/4 cups milk
• 3-4 tablespoons melted butter
• 3 tablespoons sweet stuff*
• 1 teaspoon salt

Beat the egg until fluffy, then add in other ingredients. Grease your iron skillet or griddle just a little. Cook the pancakes until you see the batter lose its shiny-ness around the edges. Then flip, and cook the other side.

* If you are able to process such things, you can use honey or agave, or even industrial food-like products called “sugar.” I use a different industrial product, called, in our house, double-xylitol, or xylitol mixed with an equal part stevia, so you only use half as much. 1.5 Tablespoons for the equivalent of 3 Tablespoons sugar. More on this industrial sweetner dilemma later.