Orange Roll Pancakes

These may look like normal pancakes, but they are far from it. So delicious. They taste like orange rolls. I adapted this recipe from the Orange-Vanilla Greek Yogurt Pancake recipe over at Aggie's Kitchen.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup white flour
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 c. plain yogurt
• 1 c. milk
• zest and juice from 2 oranges (I didn't measure exactly but it looked like about 1/4 c. zest and just over 1 c. of juice)
• 2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

1.  Mix dry ingredients. In a separate bowl mix wet ingredients. Then combine the wet with the dry and mix until just combined. Let sit for few minutes.
2. Heat your pan or griddle and use a 1/4 c. to ladle out the pancakes.

Curried Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup Adaptation

Since my last post I've had a chance to try out the soup recommended by Jessie at Prevention.com.

I made some adaptations when I tried it out. And when you adapt a recipe then you can post it without copyright issues.

Ingredients:

• 2 Tb olive oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 Tb fresh ginger, minced
• 2 Tb curry powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black  pepper
• 2 roma tomatoes
• 1 c. dried lentils
• 1 quart water
• 14 oz rice milk
• 2 tsp imitation coconut flavoring
• About 3 c. small chopped sweet potato
• 3/4 c. green beans, cut into thirds
• 1/2 c. chopped cilantro

Directions

1. Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and cook till soft about 3-5 min. Add garlic and ginger and cook 1 more min. Stir in curry powder, salt, and pepper. Cook 1-2 more minutes, till fragrant. 
2. Mix the imitation coconut flavoring into the rice milk. 
3. Stir in tomatoes, lentils, water, and rice milk/coconut mixture. Bring to a boil. Partially cover and reduce heat. Let simmer about 15 min.
4. Add potatoes and cook 10 more min.
5. Stir in green beans, cover completely and let cook another 10 minutes till lentils and potatoes are soft. Add cilantro and serve.

Notes about this recipe:

1. You can just use coconut milk in place of the rice milk/coconut extract mixture if you'd prefer.