Pumpkin Pancakes!

Wow, I feel domestic. I've two blog posts about food in the last week. Anyway I sort of discovered something yummy this morning when I needed to make a second batch of pancakes. One recipe doesn't feed us anymore!! So, for the second batch I decided to add some freshly baked pumpkin and some cinnamon and nutmeg to the batter just for kicks - and guess what - it turned out great!! It was especially good with nutella - or the cheap nock-off version we get here that has both dark chocolate and white chocolate paste. Decidedly not healthy fare, but so yummy. I decided to shave a little chocolate that I got for my birthday on top of one of them as it was cooking. When Nik sat down to eat, I put some whipped cream and shaved chocolate on his, and it sort of looked pretty - in my mind's eye at least. It may have come out better if I wasn't stumbling over a little toddler clasping at my legs while I was doing it. ;) I love that toddler and who cares if things aren't pretty these days? The kids are way prettier than any of us!!

So, the recipe I will steal from another website that I like as I'm sure it will come out better than if I tried to write my non-recipe-lucky-it-turned-out way of cooking this morning. Try it if you have some pumpkin around. I bought 6 kilos of pumpkin (half a huge big one) yesterday and baked most of it up in the oven and reserved some for some thai red curry with pumpkin, chicken and red peppers tonight. I hope to be making pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie with the rest of the pumpkin pulp. I also baked the seeds to snack on.

Ok. Here's the link to the recipe at allrecipes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Pancakes/Detail.aspx