I’ve always had a love affair with blueberries, so I bought a pint of berries at the grocery store a few days ago. Each time I opened the refrigerator, they kept screaming at me to make blueberry pancakes.
“Blueberries, I bought you because you are a super food—and I need to learn healthier habits,” I chided my little blue friends.
“We want pancakes!” they replied.
“I don’t have time,” I said.
“It’s Saturday! Of course, you have time,” they encouraged, rolling over slightly as I picked up the box, shining with tastiness.
The next thing I knew Aunt Jemima was pouring her mix into a bowl, and I couldn’t help mixing in the water. Well, once the pancake mix was ready, the next logical step was to add blueberries.
After pigging out on pancakes, I kept telling myself that at least the blueberry part of the pancake was healthy. Blueberries are full of antioxidants to help ward off all kinds of evil diseases and conditions. Heck, they can even lower cholesterol, and I could definitely make use of that.
A short Internet search later, I was a little surprised, but not shocked to find out that huckleberries are a wild version of blueberries. Cool. I always liked them too. My Grandpa Whittle used to pick buckets of the tiny blue berries.
So maybe blueberry pancakes weren’t the healthiest use of blueberries, but they were mighty tasty. It wasn’t my fault at all—the blueberries made me do it.
On mornings that I have cereal I put a handful on top. Also have an easy receipt for a coffeecake with blueberries and biscuits. I try to stay to the healthier things with blueberries too. Also do salad with strawberries and blueberries together..
ReplyDeleteYummy! The blueberries tasted great on cereal. Then, I ran out of cereal. I wonder how they would be on oatmeal. That would be a double-dose-of-heart-healthy food, wouldn't it?
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