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Blueberry Buckwheat Pancake Brunch

Cottage cheese buckwheat pancakes full of blueberries, with a gouda omelet, a crunchy pepper salad, and real maple syrup.

Breakfast and brunch · 45 minutes · ages 4+ · 4 servings · groceries about $24

Allergens: Milk, Eggs, Mustard

Skills: measuring cups and spoons, cracking eggs, separating an egg, stirring, folding, tearing lettuce

Ingredients

• Pancakes
  • 1 cup buckwheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 pasture-raised egg plus 1 egg white
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup blueberries
  • olive oil and butter, for the pan
• Omelet
  • 4 pasture-raised eggs
  • 1/2 cup shredded gouda
• Salad
  • 1 head romaine lettuce
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes
  • 1 orange and 1 yellow bell pepper
  • dressing: 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon maple syrup, salt and pepper
• On the side
  • 100% pure maple syrup
• Optional extra: bacon (leave it out for a vegetarian brunch)

Steps

1. Kids measure the buckwheat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon into a bowl and stir.
2. Kids crack one egg and separate one egg white, then whisk them with the cottage cheese, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla.
3. Kids stir the wet mix into the dry mix, then gently fold in the blueberries.
4. Joviette cooks the pancakes in olive oil and butter, about 3 minutes per side.
5. If bacon is on the plate, Joviette cooks it.
6. Kids crack the eggs for the omelet and sprinkle on the gouda; Joviette folds and finishes it.
7. Kids tear the romaine and add carrots, tomatoes, and peppers, then whisk the balsamic vinegar with the olive oil, mustard, maple syrup, salt, and pepper and drizzle it on top.
8. Everyone builds a plate and pours on the maple syrup.

Talk About It

• Buckwheat is not wheat at all; it is the seed of a plant related to rhubarb. Does it taste different from regular pancakes?
• Maple syrup is tree sap, boiled down. Guess: how many cups of sap make one cup of syrup? (About 40.)
• Why do we use the egg white without its yolk?
• Which pepper is sweeter, the orange or the yellow one?

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