I love snow- Banana Pancakes! (B)

In addition to my "I love snow" post, I am tossing in banana pancakes. It was because of the snow that I finally got to try them! I will be honest, unlike snow, I do not love bananas. I will eat them, on occasion, but they will almost never be my first choice when offered a selection of fruit. Still, I had been seeing so many Pins about these miracle "two ingredient"/"flour-less"/"Paleo friendly"/"gluten free" pancakes for a while now. I also do not like waste, which tends to be the outcome when bananas hit that over-ripe stage.

So here's what happened: Wednesday, due to the snow, I did not have to be in work until noon (awesome), AND we just happened to have some bananas that were past their prime- Perfect time to try something new!

Here is the lone banana left behind. Hubby Jr. would still consider eating that one; the others had way too many spots for his liking.  But you can at least get an idea of the ripeness we are talking about here; look at that stem!

I read over quite a few of the offerings on Pinterest and then went to work on it myself until satisfied. Here is what I settled on:

• Two large bananas
• Three eggs
• 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp of nutmeg (you can go all cinnamon if you don't have nutmeg, but it is one of my favs)
• 1 tsp of vanilla

     I mashed the bananas up with a fork and then dumped the rest on top.  

     For this, I preferred my hand mixer over the big 'ole stand mixer. I whipped those ingredients up really good. My thought process is that, much like meringues, all the fluffiness comes from how much air I can beat into the eggs- without going over! And they will be thin pancakes, mind you, but that's to be expected with no rising agent. 

     Warm up your liberally sprayed non-stick frying pan. You may be thinking, "I am using a non-stick pan" or "I hardly need to grease my pan when I make pancakes" or some other variation. I thought that too. I was wrong. Re-spray after each batch- even if you usually don't- or you will regret it. Unless you like mashed up pancakes, then go for it. 

     When you pour in your batter, I recommend keeping them silver dollar sized. They firm up as they cook, but they do not operate like regular pancakes. It is very loosey goosey right up until the end.

And that's all there is to it! Hubby, a consummate banana lover, thoroughly enjoyed them; he ate them plain. I ate mine with a generous helping of whipped cream on top.
I made them that Wednesday and then I also made them again Saturday for brunch when Little Sis came to visit with my cutiepie nephew (they were fleeing the dust at home while her hubbs was hard at work remodeling the little guy's new room). Little Sis also liked the whipped cream on top! Here they are with and without:

The little ones had no interest in pancakes (can you believe boys that don't want pancakes??). They had cheesy scrambled eggs instead! HJ went that route Both days, crazy guy!