Making Banana Pancakes

I stumbled across a recipe for lemon basil cookies on Elana's Pantry website today and I got really excited. See, I recently started an "herb garden" if you can call having three plants in my kitchen window a "garden". I have Peppermint, Thai Basil, and German Thyme. I was all excited to use these herbs on my cooking. The trouble is that I don't use those herbs that often. Now I'm trying to figure out how many cups of water I can put mint in. Finding an unusual recipe to use basil make me excited to use my fresh thai basil. As a side note, this will be my first recipe I'm making from Elana's Pantry site. She always has these drool-worthy recipes posted, but I don't bake often (or when I do it's because I'm trying to come up with a recipe) so I'm super excited to try out one of her recipes tonight.

Lemon Basil Cookies from Elana's Pantry

Shortbread cookie dough...so yummy!

This recipe also has perfect timing since Book Club is this Friday. I started our club in January as part of my New Years Resolution to meet new people. While the club is going great (we have a meeting once a month and actually discuss the book!) the part of "meeting new people" didn't pan out so well. All the people in the club I already know. Not just recently know. I've known these people for years. We still have an awesome time when we meet so it's all good. We all bring snacks to our meetings but siting around watching everyone else eat delicious brownies sucks. Enter lemon basil cookies! They sound interesting and unique, I already have all the ingredients in my kitchen AND I get to use my Thai Basil. Sold. You'll have to go to the link to get the recipe, but I'm posting photos of the cookies I made. They went over okay at the book club. I think they work really well as a shortbread cookie since they are less sweet then other types of cookies. I would make these again with a little more lemon. 

Since blueberries are in season right now at the store I thought it would be fun to work off my Cinnamon Swirl Banana Cupcake recipe and make a simpler pancake recipe from it. I came up with this one and it's officially my favorite pancake recipe! It's perfect and they were delicious. This will probably be a staple weekend morning recipe. Enjoy!

Pancakes with Avocado Baked Eggs

Paleo Blueberry Pancakes 

1 Bananas mashed
2 eggs
1 T melted grass-fed butter (or coconut oil)
1/4 tsp apple cider vinegar 
1/2 T Vanilla
1 T coconut flour
1 T Arrowroot flour
1/2 T cinnamon
1/4 t cloves
1/8 t salt
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t gluten free baking powder

1/2 C blueberries
1 T coconut oil for cooking






Blend banana, eggs, melted butter, vinegar and vanilla until smooth and runny (I use a food processor). 

In a small bowl sift coconut flour, arrowroot flour, cinnamon, cloves, salt, baking soda and baking powder together to break up any lumps in the flour. Blend dry ingredients into wet until well blended. Fold in blueberries.

Let the batter rest for 5 minutes while melting coconut oil in a skillet over medium heat. Spoon pancake batter into your desired sized pancakes. Flip after bubbles form on the surface.