What's Got Ya Thinking About Deadly Sins,

I don’t know who decided there are only Seven Deadly Sins, but whoever it was, she wasn’t a suburban mother. Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. It’s a good list, a fine list, a list that makes a lot of sense. It’s just not a complete list. I’d like to submit an eighth: slob. It's not a mandatory addition, but it's worth considering. “Gosh, Sal, it's the middle of summer. The skies are blue, the grass is green, and the winds are gentle.

What's got ya thinking about Deadly Sins, The simple answer is fruit. The longer, slightly angrier answer is blueberries. The context is not so much summer as it is road trips, car food and mess. But it all comes back to those sinfully blue berries. For context, let me blame my sister’s neighbor, Leslie. She feeds her family ultra-healthy food. Food she makes, from real ingredients, all of which are wholesome and filling and, at least in one combination, delicious.

So Leslie, in a fit of anti-sloth, whipped up a batch of her Power Pancakes and gave them to my sister. Betsy tried one and, putting aside her pride, admitted they were the best things she'd ever eaten . She lusted after them, but in a good way. Betsy told me about them, and I immediately envied her for having such a great neighbor and a great snack.

Pedaling over to her house, I tried one, and then another, and then two more. One could call that gluttony, but I’m chalking it up to hunger. The point is, Leslie’s Power Pancakes have become a summer staple. The recipe calls for whole oats, bananas, egg whites and yogurt, then finishes up with a ginormous amount of cut-up fruit, which we take to mean blueberries.

A single batch yields 26 pancakes, which get frozen in pairs, and then grabbed on the go. I’m getting to greed. OK, I’m there. Rushing to beat the traffic over the Fourth of July weekend, I grabbed a whole bunch of these frozen delights from my freezer, microwaved them all and plopped them in a Tupperware. This would be my road food as I drove to Michigan. Not chips. Not crackers.

Not junk. Just a whole lot of goodness wrapped into these pancakes, perfect for eating while driving my car. Now I’m at slob. Can you guess what happens when you bite into a microwaved pancake that's brimming with blueberries, Correction. Can you guess what happens to one’s new, white shirt when she bites into a plump, recently nuked blueberry,

My shirt became a crime scene, stained with deep indigo dots everywhere except for where my seatbelt hit. I looked like a crossing guard at a crime scene where the victims were Smurfs. The other day, unannounced, Betsy came over. She caught me dressed for the car, with pancakes still steaming. Zipping my fleece and securing my bib, here's what I confessed. Beat eggs in large bowl.

Add mashed bananas and yogurt. Stir in oats and fruit. Add almond milk or other liquid to make mixture pancake consistency. It tends to thicken up after a few minutes; you may need to add a bit more liquid. Heat griddle or cast iron skillet and spray with Pam or other nonstick spray. Eat right away, store in refrigerator or freeze. Cool pancakes on baking racks thoroughly before freezing. Betsy eats with peanut butter - yum! Sally eats with a bib.

Preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius. Combine all your ingredients, except your white chocolate chips, in a blender/ food processor and blend until completely mixed- around one minute. Stir in your white chocolate chips. Add the brownie batter to a non stick deep square tray (or line with grease proof paper) and cook in the oven for 8 minutes.

Time this carefully so your brownies do not cook dry! Remove the brownies and leave to cool for around half an hour. Once cooled remove and cut into squares and you should have delicious white chocolate gooey brownies! Author's Bio: My name is Kenny McDowell - 50 years young !