Cranberries: From Decorating to Pancakes!

Happy Cranberry Week!

My mother-in-law uses

cranberries to fill the

bottom part of the vase

of her floral centerpiece.

And I have to say, I

think it is just beautiful.

This picture is from ehow.com

as I forgot to take one of

my mother-in-law's arrangement,

but it is equally as pretty.

And now for the recipe:

This is one of those dishes that came out of an experiment.

The experiment being an answer to the daily question: how

can I get the dudes to eat a healthy breakfast? And of course

the answer is sometimes you just have to sneak the good stuff

into the mix.

Thus, I made pancakes with vanilla yogurt chips (they thought

they were white chocolate and really why would I tell them

differently?) and dried cranberries. Surprise, surprise!

They loved them and I was delighted because cranberries
are full of Vitamin C and a host of other nutrients which fight

heart disease, cancer, urinary tract infections, gum disease

and even ulcers . Quite the powerful little berry, no?

Cranberry-Vanilla Yogurt Chip Pancakes

Ingredients:

1 cup organic flour

2 tspns baking powder

1 tblspn sugar

1 cup milk

1 slightly beaten egg

2 tblspns vegetable oil

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt chips

Sift the dry ingredients together, making a well in the center. In a

smaller bowl, combine the milk, egg and oil together and then add it

to the dry ingredients. Mix together until moist (it should be lumpy).

Add yogurt chips and dried cranberries. Cook on a greased griddle

at med to med-high heat (2-3 minutes per side) until pancakes are

golden brown on both sides. Yum!

Congrats to Janel G for winning the cheesecake! Keep those ideas

coming for our next Iron Chef cooking week and you can win a

cheesecake, too! And really, who doesn't love cheesecake?

Jenn McKinlay

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