Today's theme is brown, lumpy food that tastes way better than it may look. I promise.I based the breakfast cakes above on Ani Phyo's coconut breakfast cakes in Ani's Raw Food Kitchen. They look like veggie burgers, but the idea is pancakes...they might be prettier if I had used golden flax seeds. The basic recipe also includes coconut oil, which is expensive but worth it, especially if you use it sparingly. Banana pieces, blueberries, maple syrup, and walnuts are worked into the "dough," and sprinkled on top.
Since flax cakes may seem aggressively health-foody, you might think the taste or texture suffers for it. Happily, they're really light, and the maple syrup and bananas combine for a silky smooth texture. Not at all gritty or chewy, which I'd expected.
Chasing away any thoughts of eating raw are these black-eyed pea fritters, from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen. They're brown, they're lumpy, and they're great. They also include peanuts, and are crunchy and spicy and greasy in the best possible way, as the soaked black-eyed pea and peanut batter nuggets are deep-fried in canola oil. I had these with a sweet and sour Thai mango dipping sauce.
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I enjoyed that breakfast cake recipe as well! Those fritters look delicious! I just got the book and I'll have to mark that recipe.
hahah i really like the theme of the post! so funny. i think the breakfast cakes sound delightful!
I can't wait to try the breakfast cakes. yummy!
Those black eyes pea fritters look awesome!
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Hmmm....not sure this looks appetizing to me:-)
I have oatmeal (yes, it's cooked) and melon for breakfast. I think I may stick with that!
I wasn't crazy about Ani's flax pancakes when I made 'em, but I didn't add fruit into the batter. I think that would have been much better.
But those black-eyed pea fritters! Oh my! I'll have to dig out VSK for that one. Bryant Terry kicks ass.
Bring on the brown, lumpy food because it looks amazing! Especially the black eyed pea fritters, they had me at "deep fried"! :-D
I've heard nothing but good things about Ani's Raw Food Kitchen and Vegan Soul Kitchen. I should add them to my Christmas wish list!
...lumpy food that tastes way better than it may look.
You had me laughing out loud, Mike!
hi, it' Ani Phyo here. wow, thanks so much for checking out my flax meal pancakes. I have a lighter, but dehydrated, recipe in my next book, "Ani's Raw Food Essentials" (avail April 2010) that's amazingly like cooked pancakes. :)
Both look really great! Those breakfast cakes actually do sound pretty appetising, but those fritters are making me hungry.
And they have yet to create an invention that would tele-port food from you to me.
SIGHHHH!!!!
i think flax really lends itself well to breakfast foods. i always add it to my muffins and what not.
note to self: yet another reason to get soul kitchen!
Yummy! Brown lumpy food never looked so good!
Wow, these flax cakes are a revelation!
"black-eyed pea fritters, from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen...sweet and sour Thai mango dipping sauce"
Dang it hon, you got me with the sweet and sour mango dipping sauce- have had the book for several months but have yet to cook from it- you've selected the first recipe for me, thanks!
Black-Eyed Pea Fritter looks delicious, I haven't tasted it yet, but I hope to taste it soon, thank you for sharing
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