Leprechaun Brunch

Happy St. Patty's Day Everyone!!

I hope everyone is in a green mood today!!

I promised Maddi that I would make green eggs and ham for breakfast,

but after a quick doctor's appt for Mr. B, it ended up being brunch.

But to make up for it,

I added in green pancakes!

A true leprechaun brunch!

Start by gathering your ingredients for the pancakes.

Flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, an egg, milk, pinch of salt, applesauce, and of course green food coloring.

*I make homemade pancake mix, you could certainly use a premade mix!

*I also use applesauce instead of oil or butter.

I mix together the dry ingredients.

Then add in the wet ingredients except the egg.

I have found it is much easier to beat the egg in a separate bowl first and then add it to the mix.

I also add some ground cinnamon to my mix (not pictured)

Next I added in a few drops of food coloring and mixed that in.

After I have thoroughly mixed all the ingredients, I make the pancakes on a preheated griddle.

*You could easily use a preheated pan.

 Flip over pancakes when the edges start browning.

*There is no real tip for this, it just takes some trial and error to figure it out.

 After I finished the pancakes, I started my eggs.

I whipped up 3 whole eggs and 3 egg whites.

 I added in a drop or two of food coloring to the eggs.

For the ham, I just took regular lunch meat, chopped it up and cooked it in a pan on medium high heat for a few minutes.

*I like to cook the ham first separate from the eggs to get a little sear on them.  To me the ham is too rubbery if I just add it straight to the eggs.

*I have also used turkey lunch meat.

I mixed the eggs and the ham and then put them on the griddle since it was already hot to scramble them.

*I will never do this again!  It was way too messy for me, I will stick with a pan.

Lastly I added in some shredded cheese.

 The finished plates.

*Excuse the pancake batter droppings.

 Our leprechaun brunch will hopefully bring us good luck for the rest of the day!

What did you do special for St. Patty's Day??