Blueberry Whole Wheat Pancakes for Breakfast and Islamorada for Dinner!

Blueberry Whole Wheat Pancakes

I am going to do this backwards. For breakfast this morning we had Blueberry Whole Wheat Pancakes and dinner last night was in Islamorada, one of the Florida Keys. How cool is my life?

The breakfast this morning was a treat for the girls and a treat for us in another way. I always make a double batch of these yummy pancakes because they refrigerate well and can be reheated or eaten cold for the next couple of days. Makes for a nice stream lined breakfast for a busy weekday morning. Oh and did you know, blueberries are in season here!!!


Blueberry Whole Wheat Pancakes

Ingredients

1 cup Whole Wheat flour
1 Tbs sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 t salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 T vegetable or canola oil
1 cup fresh blueberry (any berry will work)

Directions:

• Whisk all dry ingredients together in a large bowl. In a seperate bowl whisk all wet ingredients together.
  

• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well. You may have to add additional milk to make the mixture thinner.

• Lightly oil a pre-heated griddle or pan.

• Pour using a 1/4 cup measuring cup.

• Cook on first side until you see bubbles on the surface. Flip and cook until the other side is browned.

***This recipe can be doubled to make additional pancakes which can be refrigerated and heated up the next day for a quick breakfast during the week.

***You can add 1/2 cup of berries to this mixture to have berry pancakes.

Note the beautiful color of the water!

Trying to catch some spray!

Onto yesterday...we got up early in the morning and fed the girls a quick breakfast (I will post this really cool simple breakfast later this week) and pointed the car due South. We wanted to be in Key Largo before lunch. I had made reservations for us to go out on Spirit Of Pennekamp which is a glass bottom boat that takes you out over the coral reefs off of the Florida Keys. We are lucky enough to have the 3rd largest coral reef in the world. Unfortunately we decided that our youngest daughter was just too young for snorkeling so at least they offered this other amazing option. The boat ride alone is worth the price of admission. If any of you are anywhere near the Keys this is truly a must see! The guides were incredible and the boat captain was amazing. Just hovering over the reef while being told which way to go. We were able to see scores and scores of fish. Puffer fish, nurse shark, sea turtles, coral and the list goes on and on!

We then headed to Islamorada which is more southernly and had a wonderful dinner at a beautiful gulf side restaurant. Islamorada Fish Company Restaurant , located at mile marker 81.5 (how cool to be on a mile marker???!!!). We both had a couple of tropical cocktails and for dinner we had locally caught yellow tail snapper! The kids had alligator and clam strips but then back to reality...

and alas, all good things must come to an end and for us instead of hanging around for the night we opted on traveling home and not fighting the exodus on Memorial Day For us the drive is about 3 1/2 hrs but completely worth it!!! With Webkinz as our co-pilots we crossed our fingers (saw many, many, many drunken drivers) and once again headed North!

This is really hard to see but if you click on the picture it will appear better. See all of those things out there? Those are boats...hundreds of boats all anchored up by a sand bar in the Atlantic Ocean at Holiday Isle. It's a tradition that is carried on virtually every weekend with the holidays and race week being the most congested.

As Always...

Happy Entertaining!!!

Judy
www.nofearentertaining.com