Grey Morning Pancakes

This morning was a beautiful-beautiful, cool, grey, overcast morning. The kind of morning that makes you want to curl up on a balcony with a light blanket, a good book and a plate of homemade pancakes. Yes, just the right kind of morning for pancakes, I thought.

And, since I am on my 'make everything by scratch' roll, I looked up an old recipe online and ventured to the local grocer. Little did I know what wonders lay before me!

I needed whole grain flour, cage free eggs (be nice to the poor birds!) and bananas to make my recipe complete. Add a bag of Red Mill organic 6 grain oats and some vanilla yogurt and I was out the door, happy as could be.

I got home and danced around my kitchen to various big band melodia swirling up from downstairs as I measured, stirred and poured to the tune of this recipe:

I substituted 1/4 cup of flour for my 6 grain oats, used 1/2 water, 1/2 milk for my waist's sake, and tossed sliced bananas into the batter to be cooked in, and saved a few to be sprinkled on top.

Then came the moment. THE moment. The house, for some unknown reason, only had Mrs. Butterworth's syrup, and, since I didn't want to drown my otherwise fabulously old fashioned and organic johnnycakes with high fructose corn syrup and cellulose gum, I looked toward my vanilla Activia. Eureka!

I used the yogurt as syrup, added more sliced bananas and sprinkled with chopped walnuts. Let me tell you that was quite possibly the best decision I have ever made. I had a Julie and Julia moment when the fork ladened with the precious substance entered my mouth at long last. Mm-mmmm!!! Thank you Lord for this wonderful, wonderful day!