Simple is always better. Especially when I’m incredibly lazy on the weekend. Seriously lazy. I mean, I still always work out, but then I tend to not want to do anything else. So my cooking is extremely simple on the weekends. I make lots of eggs, some Applegate Farms precooked chicken sausage, and other people’s dessert recipes. I love trying out other bloggers recipes. Like Brittany Angell’s cosmic brownie recipe. I about cried when I tried that brownie recipe. Seriously the best thing you will ever taste. I swear. You have to try it.
Ok, let’s talk more about the weekend. So it started off on Friday, interesting huh? Well, my gym CrossFit Broadway does the CrossFit Games open workouts on Fridays. A bunch of us get together so we can do a quick, miserable workout and then drink together. I usually don’t drink because all we usually have in the gym refrigerator is beer. And well, beer is gross. I keep thinking that my taste buds will mature and I’ll actually enjoy beer at some point, but I don’t. I still tastes like dog food. But luckily this Friday, my friend Jeremy was oh so wonderful to pick me up some canned champagne. Anywho, after doing that god awful 14.3 workout and getting 108 miserable reps, I started chugging away. I never knew that champagne had such a high alcohol content. Well, my body figured it out pretty fast. My feet did the normal swelling how it always does, even with one sip of alcohol, and I felt a good buzz in no time. It’s always fun being buzzed with people you workout with. You think everything is funny. Especially watching other suffer through the workout you just did. And you REALLY think things are hilarious when you drink 4 of those little bastards. Man do they pack a punch on an empty stomach.
Well, after stuffing my face with some gluten free pizza and tucking myself into bed around 9:30pm, I woke up with one hell of a hangover. Instead of sleeping it off or eating my body weight in greasy food, I went straight to the gym. Sometimes a workout is all you need to cure a hangover. This was not that kind of day. My workout was sh*t and I felt worse afterwards. So I went grocery shopping to get it over with before the Sunday rush, then went straight home, ate some food and found my happy place right on the couch. I did not move from that spot until I had to get dinner. Then I ate dinner and parked my ass right back on the couch for some Modern Family and E! network.
The next day was a bit more productive. I actually showered and put on make up, then biked to brunch with friends. After biking home, I made these wonderful pancakes and then the brownies and proceeded on to watch three movies. Yes, three. First, The Hunger Games. Then Catching Fire (the second hunger games). Then Boondock Saints (had to celebrate St. Patty’s Day somehow). I also folded laundry and cleaned the kitchen. That’s productive, right?
Again, I like lazy weekends.
Damnit. I missed the premier of Total Divas. My weekend was not completely.
Stop judging me.
3 Ingredient Simple Protein Pancakes
- Yield: 2-3 1x
Ingredients
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1/2 cup vanilla Primal Fuel protein
- Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips (optional – or whatever else you want in the pancakes)
- 1 tablespoon butter (or other oil – to grease the pan)
Instructions
- Mix together bananas, eggs, and protein powder until well combined.
- Place a pan or pancake griddle over medium heat. Grease the pan with a bit of oil. Once pan is hot, add a large spoonful of the pancake mixture to the pan, about 3-5 inches wide.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of the pancakes.
- Once the pancakes begin to bubble, flip them. Cook for about 1 minute each side, depending how hot the pan is.
- Regrease the pan, as needed.
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Add a little frozen spinach and use a blender/food processor for a little St. Patty’s day treat!
I made these two days ago and they were BOMB. I love one of the commenter’s suggestion to add chopped spinach. The batter was SO sweet (even without the addition of choc chips) that I doubt you’d even be able to taste the spinach.
I love your honesty and the fact that you are a real person 🙂 Thank you for sharing your Friday!!
AND, off I go to make these pancakes 🙂
Is Formulux the only protein powder you would recommend?
It’s the only kind that has never bugged my stomach
I actually tried with Gold Standard-Chocolate Malt and also mixed in 1/2 cup of instant oatmeal (uncooked). The outcome was great! So I guess to answer your question- I believe any protein would suffice. Hope this helps
This was all de ja vu for me… I had a few glasses of wine after the open workout on Friday and woke up with a killer migraine Saturday and spent the majority of the day on the couch. We watched The Hunger Games and was going to watch Catching Fire but since I practically slept through The Hunger Games, I settled for some Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Yay for lazy weekends!
108 is an awesome score! I managed to get 101 my second go and for some stupid reason my back doesnt hurt (actually, thats not stupid) but my face hurts really bad… Crazy, huh?
OMG, I thought I was the only one who thought that beer tasted like dog food! Not that I’ve actually ever tasted dog food. Champagne makes me feel like crap too, unfortunately I love the stuff. These pancakes look great, like all of your other recipes, will be trying them soon. I don’t like mornings so this is perfect for breakfast in my house!
Beer isn’t THAT bad but it is an acquired taste. I never drank beer before July 2011. I was with a group of guys in Nijnmegen, Holland for the annual “4 days March”. We didn’t think to bring anything with us because we assumed there would be food/drink provided more often than just breakfast and dinner. The only thing that was open most of the time at the military camping area was the beer tent. After that week beer doesn’t bother me anymore.
Yeah, I know I’m I’m late but…..
P.S.
Making these tomorrow since my kids have a random 2hr delay(gotta the Springs).
Ugh, yeah, drinking on an empty stomach is the worst. That happened to me last week — three cocktails on an empty stomach and then I tried to make up for it by eating sweet potato fries. Woke up at 2 a.m. with a pending hangover that I mostly managed to kill by drinking a liter of water, but still felt like crap the next day.
These pancakes, though, look like a hangover-killer for sure! A little syrup, some of those chocolate chips…yes, please 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Omg I just bought both the Hunger Games and Catching Fire yesterday too, it was the best movie ever!
I totally hate beer! And everyone seems to think that will change if I just try their favorite beer but let me tell you, it hasn’t. Guys like to tell me that beer is an acquired taste, but if I haven’t acquired a taste for it by 31 after all those ships of someone’s fave beer I’m giving up! I like hard cider, or fruity girly drinks with cherries and umbrellas! *sigh* Anyways, I saw that magic brownie recipe on facebook yesterday I think and I quickly scrolled past it because it looked so good I would probably eat the whole batch but now that you linked to it my willpower is gone and I have to try them…thanks a lot Julie!!! 😉
You didn’t miss much on Total Divas…Eva Marie is an idiot and tried to hide her marriage from her parents. And Nikki is sad panda about Jon, understandably (it actually makes me sad). I think some new girl beat the sh*t out of Nattie in a match, so expect more drama there. Other than that, not too exciting :/