SUNDAY BRUNCH: Banana & Egg Pancakes

I'm on a bit of a health kick at the moment, and trying to make better choices about what on earth I put in my body. The thing is though, I have a sweet tooth and love food that feels naughty to eat. So, that's why this morning I decided to try banana and egg pancakes. Boy-oh-boy. These are goooood! And with pancake day next week, this is a great low cal version.

So here is my own take on the most scrumptious healthy pancakes.

Ingredients: 
1x relatively ripe banana - the general rule is the riper the banana the sweeter the pancakes
2x free range eggs
FryLight
Sprinkle of Cinnamon powder (optional)
Honey & fruit for serving (optional)

Method: 
- Peel and mash the banana until it's pretty smooth and creamy in texture
- Whisk 2 eggs in a bowl
- Add the banana mixture to the bowl and mix
- Add a few sprinkles of cinnamon if you want (I'd highly recommend you do - it was delicious!)
- Heat up a frying pan
- When the pan is hot enough, spray a few sprays of FryLight or any other low calorie spray oil
- Add a ladle full of the pancake batter to the pan and wait for air bubble to start forming
- Flip, and make sure that both sides are lovely and golden
- Add to your plate, and cover with a tea-towel to retain the heat whilst you cook the others

This mixture made about 5 pancakes for me, and they were the perfect amount to satisfy my sweet tooth, whilst still coming in at less than 300 calories.

Let me know if you make these, and tag me in any photo's on instagram @regardingjemma

friends & food in the sunshine

Yesterday I went out for dinner with one of my best friends from college. We barely see each other any more, but when we get together it's like nothing has changed between us. I think that's the meaning of true friendship - it lasts the test of time. We met in town (after I caught the bus all by myself - another little mile-stone achieved!) and then tottered off to Pizza Express for some lunch. Unfortunately we had a £10 off when you spend £40 - that clearly meant that we just <u>had</u> to go for three courses. Ooops. Like a complete ditz I only remembered to take pictures of my main course - that's surely enough food porn for one post though, right? To start I had the scrumptious dough balls with garlic butter, #uhhmazing. Then this glorious beast of a pizza is their Pollo Ad Astra Leggera pizza which has a super thin base and a hole in the middle filled with salad - all around 500 calories, talk about guilt free. But... then the guilt came. I was forced to have the most divine Chocolate Glory icecream filled with vanilla icecream, fudgy (I'm already salivating) chocolate sauce and pieces of chocolate fudge cake; I don't think that was quite so under 500 calories...

We were also meant to go and see 'The Fault in our Stars', but because of all our shopping, eating and talking we missed it. Whoops... All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable day with some fabulous company and food.