Oh yeah, I am going there. Even on Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday brunch or breakfast, whatever you want to call it, it’s still going be pretty to important. Important because while you work on your Sunday Funday buzz you’re gonna need something substantial to get you through the day and the game.

Apparently February is National Pancake month. Who knew? Who knew that pancakes were connected to Strove Tuesday or better known here in NOLA as Mardi Gras? It’s apparently popular in the UK and Ireland for Strove Tuesday as one of the last rich gluttonous meals before Lent. Well maybe pancakes in general aren’t gluttonous but these. These pancakes are pretty damn delicious. 

These pancakes make pretty good fat snack. Hell, they might even be the original portable fat snack.

Later in the day, imagine you have some pancakes already soaked in maple syrup hanging out in your fridge. You know that peanut butter and bananas go together really well.

Then.

Then you remember that sandwich that Elvis loved: peanut butter, banana, and bacon. Score!

Yup. I went there. 

I mean you eat it all on a plate. What about making it into a snack later in the day?

Just to tide you over. It’s the ultimate round two.

But seriously here folks, that was just an admission of horrible eating habits when I am left to my own devices. For y'alls sake and my credibility just make the pancakes and eat em on plate like normal sane folks do. 

Banana Coconut Pancakes with Dried Cranberries and Pecans

2 very ripe bananas, mashed.

1/2cup unsweetened coconut flakes

2 cups all purpose flour

3 tbsp turbinado sugar

4 tsp baking powder

¾ tsp salt

½ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp ground nutmeg

zest from one satsuma (what can I say, I had one hanging out. All lonely and stuff).

2 cups whole milk

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract 

¼ cup or ½ stick butter, melted.

¾ cup pecan pieces

½ cup dried cranberries

A little jar of bacon fat.

In a bowl, mash the bananas, add the vanilla extract, some citrus zest, and toss in the coconut flakes. In a separate bowl combine the flour, sugar, spices, baking powder, and salt. Keeping the dry ingredients, dry. Now it’s time to whisk eggs, milk, and butter together. Add this mixture of wet ingredients and the banana mixture to the dry ingredients. It’s probably a good idea here to move the pancake batter to a pitcher or measuring cup.

Take your cast iron skillet or griddle, place on the stove top at medium high heat.

dab. and when I say dab a bit of bacon fat in the skillet or griddle. Just a dab to coat. 

Pour a ¼ cup batter onto the skillet. Sprinkle pecans and dried cranberries. Once the pancake starts to set and you’ll know this because it will create little bubbles, flip. About 90 secs to 2 mins a side. 

And voila! Seriously delicious pancakes.