The recipe for those 2-ingredient banana and egg pancakes you’re seeing everywhere, but with a few cinnamon and vanilla additions to spice things up a bit.
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I’m standing at the kitchen window with its white paint flaking from the wooden sash, the corroded wire track that makes it nearly impossible to open and close. A spring green lawn splotchy with soft purple creeping charlie blooms stretches towards the back fence. The hops have just started their ascent to the top of the two-story shed. The garden boxes that circle the yard hold small bottle-green seedlings and rows of freshly tilled dirt.
In the center of the scene, positioned at the foot of the hill, is a rectangle of deep pink. A striped beach towel is laid out to protect against the scratchy weeds, and two shorts-clad girls lie prone, heads together, cheeks rubbing against the terrycloth of the towel, hair draped behind them contrasting against the magenta hue of the towel.
Six years separate them, and there are some days it shows. They bicker and fight over whose mess litters the floor of their shared bedroom. They scowl and complain about the other’s noise, smells, existence. Other days the years melt away as they talk on towels in the sunshine. I’ll find them tucked into the same bunk, toes sticking out from under the blanket together. Sometimes I’ll wake to hear them making breakfast together in the quiet of the morning hours.
These are the days where I stuff all my hopes and dreams for what I want to provide them with out the window, and I think about what’s important, my hopes and dreams for the women they will become. I try to teach them to be kind, to care about each other and the world they live in, to be considerate and courteous, to love broadly, to see the larger picture that exists beyond the frame of our lives.
These pancakes require only two ingredients that don’t even need to be measured. They begin with nothing more than a banana and two eggs. I know the girls are making them because I’ll hear the whirring of the blender and the click, click, click of our gas burner lighting from the other side of the house.
When you eat these as the simple, two-ingredient pancakes they’re good, but the real flavor is in whatever you put on top, be it chocolate nut butter spread, peanut butter, or homemade maple syrup. To make them a bit more interesting, a few flavor enhancers go a long way. A large spoonful of peanut butter to the mix turns these into peanut butter banana pancakes, but a splash of vanilla and a sprinkling of cinnamon do these up nicely, too (plus a pinch of salt for good measure).
These make small, thin pancakes. It is more difficult to flip larger pancakes because they are delicate, so I recommend staying with the silver dollar size and making yourself a taller stack.
2-Ingredient Banana Pancakes: Cinnamon Variation
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The ingredients seem so simple. Still, there’s a huge difference for the families and people working to provide the products for these pancakes from the fair trade bananas to the fair trade cinnamon used to flavor them. This awareness of how our everyday lives impact others begins at home: driving to the market to pick out fresh produce and meat from farmers, explaining the difference between bunches of bananas at the store, showing them how and why we buy one coffee bean and not the other.
Basingwa Maria started farming in 1974. She poured her heart into coffee after she lost her husband to the war in Rwanda knowing she needed to provide for her family. In 2000 she joined the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative (Musasa), which cultivated coffee near a mountain gorilla habitat in central Rwanda, employing a majority female workforce.
Being a part of the cooperative has meant she has been able to bring running water to her home, investing in solar panels, diversifying her family’s nutrition options, and sending two of her children to university. “After the war I never believed we could get this kind of life. Having this beautiful house, sitting with my children having discussions of how to improve our lives.” Basingwa Maria has twice won the cup of excellence award from her cooperative, and she credits her high quality coffee investing in cows for organic fertilizer and following the cooperative’s agronomist’s advice.
From my bed the smell of pancakes drifts through the house, and I hear the water turn on, the burner light, and the cupboard open. My daughter is reaching for products we’ve picked together while standing in the aisles of our local grocer, our local coffee shops, learning why we look for the labels we do as I try to teach them to see beyond the borders of our picture frame.
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Awww… I love the paragraphs about your girls. My two girls are six years a part as well and I so remember the harmony as well as the disagreements, mostly due to the age gap. We love these pancakes and my youngest loves them because they are wheat free and simple to whip up. Beautiful post and a lovely blog!
Delicious post. 🙂 And the basket has a lot of goodies
Really very easy and simple recipe of banana pancake.
i will not wait to try it.
This sounds amazing!
This parfait looks exactly like the ones on cafe. Great one!
Very tasty.
Yummy.
thanks for sharing this great recipe,gonna try it today before hitting the gym
Bananas and pancakes go together so well, a lot of times I will caramelize and lay them over the top of the cakes! Brinner (breakfast for dinner) is one of my favorite meals, we actually had it tonight. I made Elvis waffles loaded with peanut butter, banana and bacon!
Ummm… Delicious.
wow…….yummy what a lovely recipe of banana pancake, yumm yumm
Very Delicious I must say.
i love this recipe.. yummyyy
Nice info keep up your great work
Bananas and pancakes go together thus well, a lot of times i’ll caramelize and lay them over the highest of the cakes! Brinner (breakfast for dinner) is one amongst my favorite meals, we really had it tonight. I made battery-acid waffles loaded with peanut butter, banana and bacon!
Wow, What a delicious shake.
Wow, What a delicious shake.
i love it
Sounds as you found the ideal food dish
i love this recipe.. yummyyy
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This parfait looks exactly like the ones on cafe. nice one!!!!
Pleasant data keep up your awesome work
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Bananas and pancakes go together thus well, a lot of times i’ll caramelize and lay them over the highest of the cakes! Brinner (breakfast for dinner) is one amongst my favorite meals, we really had it tonight. I made battery-acid waffles loaded with peanut butter, banana and bacon!
Delicious post. 🙂 And the basket has a lot of goodies
nice
Thanks for the post.
wow…….yummy what a lovely recipe of banana pancake, yumm yumm
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I would try this at home
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