Cranberry Cinnamon Pancakes - LIVE COOKING DEMO

Hey everyone. Happy Tuesday. Hope everybody is doing well. All right everybody. Hey Alicia. So glad you guys are here. I'm between meetings but I haven't eaten yet today except for some cheese and crackers and coffee. So I'm gonna make one of my favorite go-to meals. You guys know about my blueberry pancakes. But on my last order from Aldi's I got this cranberry cinnamon goat cheese. So I'm going to be making these pancakes and I'm going to make them on the mini dash. So I'm not using the stove. Thank you guys for being here. Feel free to drop a comment. I gotta do better about this. Let me know where you're watching from. You can just put your city and please like or heart or whatever it is. You guys know. Wash my hands. And just in case we have any new people here, I am Maggie, the substitute teacher on a health and wellness journey. You guys are here to help keep me accountable so I can get the rest of this weight off and hello Atlanta and age gracefully. So yeah whenever I'm in the kitchen I just bring you guys on in here with me. I'm gonna get my apron on and get started. So even though I'm making pancakes this is a meal that you could have for breakfast. Hey Amethyst. Make sure you guys do me a favor. Please like the video and just let me know what city you're watching from. If anybody was here yesterday you saw me and my mom cooking, well I was cooking the chicken quesadilla. She wanted to try the cassava tortilla. So it was so fun to have Nana here and she'll definitely be back whenever she's feeling up to it. She's retired and she's earned the right to do what she wants to do. All right so again on my health and wellness journey so far I'm down over 70 pounds. Thank you. Wonderful Atlanta. I know I know Nana she y'all I'm telling you my family but I'm grateful you know they raised me. I know you guys miss her already. It was so funny as soon as we went off camera she was like let's watch it so we watched the replay. She's like I did good. I said yeah mom you did so good. Okay so anybody who's new here on my weight loss journey I've been tested for food sensitivities. It was a cheek swab and some hair samples. I actually went to see the metabolic specialist today. I'm tracking well so I basically substitute the foods that I used to love with the foods that love me back. I know Nana isn't she a trip. All right so these pancakes are grain free, sugar free, and dairy free. So it's just two ingredients. It calls for eggs and it calls for cream cheese but because I can't have cow dairy you guys know I'm substituting goat cheese and today we're doing cranberry and cinnamon. So if you have any flavored goat cheeses let's see if we can hopefully this isn't too much. I don't know if I should use the small blender or the big one. I got the small one out so we're gonna go with it because I'm hungry as per usual but because I can't have did I already say that I can't have cream cheese. So if you guys have any flavored goat cheeses or cream cheeses give it a try and let me know. Because these pancakes are pretty much pure protein you're gonna stay fuller longer than the you know flour pancakes but we're still gonna have that butter and syrup on there with a few substitutes. All right so you guys can see here this is regular goat's cheese in the center and then they rolled it in cranberries and probably added some cinnamon. So I'm just going to use my hands and break it into small pieces so that it can blend. All you need is a blender even if you have one of those little mini bullets that's like a smoothie maker that'll probably work. Give it a try and let me know. All right I'm gonna wash my hands. I just have my cream cheese goat cheese in the blender. Oh I forgot to say for this recipe it's a one-to-one ratio so you need one egg for every ounce of cream cheese or goat cheese. And so I threw away the wrapper but that was a six ounce log of goat cheese so I need to add six eggs to this. Just trying to make sure I'm getting these shells in there because I have to dig them out. So the recipe again you can use plain. You guys have seen me use plain goat cheese, plain cream cheese, well not cream cheese, and then I'll add fruit into it. But since this is a cranberry cinnamon you can add whatever you want. You can make them sweet, you can make them maybe savory. I'm gonna put a little bit of sweetener in here even though I am gonna have syrup. So six eggs and then six ounces of goat cheese. This is completely optional but I'm gonna put a squirt of this caramel this is stevia, sweet leaf, sweet drops. I just bought this and I didn't like it in beverages but I do like it as an ingredient. So I'm just gonna put a squirt in there and then we're ready to blend. I've used uh I'll get that moving fast because I'm between meetings. I'm just getting a little spatula to just push the goat's cheese down underneath the blade so that it actually blends well. You guys have seen me use cinnamon, nutmeg, you can put whatever you want in there. All right so I've pushed it all down below the blade and I'm gonna blend it. I'm not gonna eat it all. I'm not even gonna cook it all but I am going to blend it all and it will keep. So maybe I'll make about half um today and then whenever I want the rest of them. I'm using this mini dash this is the one that's the griddle so it's the smooth surface $12.99 at Target. You can do these pancakes in the stove no problem but you have to flip them and since this cooks from both sides it just goes a little faster. I'm gonna put some dairy, some dairy, some butter on the griddle. This is the butter that I'm using since I can't have cow dairy I'm using the goat's butter and literally I have one already. I just take it like a marker and just smear it on the top and the bottom. All right so this has got a little light on it. I'm waiting for the light to um the lights on when you plug it. You know me and my gadgets y'all. Um they're so funny. All right so speaking of gadgets I'm gonna blend my batter. Again this is cinnamon cranberry goat's cheese. You can probably use plain and add cranberries and add cinnamon but I did an order yesterday. Thank you for the heart. All right when I blend I just kind of I have to keep my hand on it with my little ninja and I just make sure that it's moving smoothly and I don't feel any more lumps. That's how I know that it's blended. So because the cranberries are already in there you guys can see we've got kind of a brown color. So these pancakes are going to be a little bit reddish brown. I'm also going to make some turkey bacon. I am going to line the bottom with foil and then I'll talk to you guys about what I'm drinking today because I do have a beverage. If you can have real bacon please have some for me but I'm gonna plan turkey bacon because I want to get this weight off. So I'm just lining the bottom tray of my air fryer in case we have any drippage. I don't know if that's a word and then this is the turkey bacon that I'm using just butterball turkey bacon. Yeah Akata says I eat a lot of eggs. You know I like eggs. One second I think my griddle just went off. Okay it's smoking so I'm gonna go ahead and pour my batter and I'm gonna answer your question. You know what so that I don't make a mess I'm just gonna see if I take the blade out. You guys can see that the batter is more runny than regular pancake batter because there's no flour but I just have I'm gonna put this on the griddle and close it. So Akata says I eat a lot of eggs. You are correct. I like eggs. It's completely optional. Some people don't like eggs. Some people are sensitive to eggs. Eggs for me are quick and easy. My jewelry off in the kitchen. Eggs are quick and easy protein. Hi veggie. Yeah I do. Eggs are very versatile and I think they have a lot of health benefits. Y'all can look it up. Y'all can help me. Somebody put the benefits of eggs in the chat. Yeah I do. All right so I've got some turkey bacon here. All know turkey bacon. Kind of like deli meat but if you crisp it up nicely and pepper it well before you cook it it's doable. But if you can have... See Alicia loves eggs. Yeah some people like it some people don't. You guys everything that I make here is a variation on stuff that I would cook for the family. I remember making pancakes for dinner one night for the boys and they had pancakes and scrambled eggs and hash browns and bacon. I was like I can't have any of that. So this is the recipe that I came up with. All right just clean it up. Wash my hands. But Mr. Akata let me know what else you'd like to see me cook. If you saw mom last night she wants a steak so when Nana comes back I'm gonna do a ribeye for her. I can pretty much cook anything but let me know what you'd like for me to do more like pan fried, a pan sear fish, anything. So Alicia says eggs are good source of iron and good cholesterol. All right so for the turkey bacon I just have it on my air fryer tray and then like a little drip pan with foil underneath. And I'm gonna be generous with the cracked pepper. You guys are so funny. Let me know anybody who's new. I'm gonna try and remember to do this. Please hit the like button and just put what city you're in. I'm just curious. My dad last night if you saw my parents he was like does this go around the world? I'm like well dad it's YouTube it could. So I know we have some Atlanta. I know Dottie's from the UK. I know Robin's from Australia. I love to travel so I've met people everywhere. All right so you see my turkey bacon with the black pepper gumbo. Hmm do I like gumbo? Let me think about that. I could make I could probably make some. And then to keep it from curling up in the air fryer I cook it between another tray so that doesn't go anywhere. I just put on the french fry setting which is hot. My former mother-in-law, God rest her soul, used to say wipe now scrub later. So if you see a mess I'm always cleaning it up. Ah Tracy's from Switzerland. Wonderful. So Akata says gumbo. So that's like a stew soup stew with okra. It's got shrimp. It's got some sausage. I could use turkey sausage. Yeah I could probably make that but it has rice and stuff in it. I don't know. How about this Akata? Send me a recipe if you have one that you like or put it in the comments and I'll check the links later. And then what I'll do if you guys want to challenge me to cook something I'll make a version that I can have with my substituted ingredients. That might be fun. All right looks like my first pancake is done. Again I'm using my mini dash griddle for two reasons. It cooks on both sides kind of like a little George Foreman. I know I'm international y'all. My parents are so cute. I'm just touching it to see if it's cooked all the way and it is. So this is my first pancake. Cranberry, cinnamon, no flour, no sugar, and no dairy. So I'm putting some more goat's butter on the griddle. I like the mini dash because it cooks from both sides. What else do I like about it? You don't have to have a stove so if you're in a hotel or dorm room travel you can you know make your pancakes. Working on number two. Now the key with my pancakes you guys you know you have to do the butter and syrup on each level. Layer. All right so I'm going in the goat's butter. Anybody new here you guys know this is my butter. Dairy-free, made from goat's milk. So I put a nice pat of butter on the first pancake. And then the syrup. You guys know beverages and condiments. This one is just regular. This is a Carey's. I think I got it from Walmart. So pretty liberal. So when it melts down so good. All right so this is our first layer. I may do a three stack or a four stack. I don't know y'all. It's like afternoon and I haven't eaten yet so. I just used the microwave for storage. No reason. Let me get my beverage. So you guys heard me talk about Panera. I went today and got my iced coffee. There's a Panera close to where I live. It's just a coffee shop and they have beverages and snacks. Of course I can't have any of their food. But I got an iced coffee with almond milk. Unsweet. And I brought it home. But I also keep these in the car. The skinny, skinny syrups. The little flavor bursts. And literally what I'm gonna do. I think I'll do mocha today. I've been doing a lot of vanilla. I would love half and half for that nice creamy. But I gotta go with almond milk because you already know me and dairy. So when I get my beverages. I think this is only 35 calories. You all know those coffee shop beverages with the full flavor and the full syrup. It's a lot. I gotta take a nap after. So literally I just take off the top and I'm opening up my mocha. So I'm making a chocolate iced coffee. So I'm gonna do a generous squirt because this is a large. To me that's pretty generous. Then I'm putting the top back on. And you just do it to taste. You can do a little or a lot. Y'all know me and these straws. I recycle and today was recycling day. Very good. Guilt free. So for beverages you can make a lot of changes by you know cutting out extra sugar and calories you don't need. Plus condiments. All right let's check on pancake number two. So happy you guys are here. All right pancake number two is looking good. So our pancake number one is in here. All nice and buttery and still warm. Alicia says that's what you need. Tell me what you need. All right I just touch the middle of it once I open the griddle. You know my mom taught me to cook with all my senses so it looks done. But I just touch the middle just to make sure that it's set and not still jiggly. So you know don't be don't be afraid to get in there with your food. You're gonna eat it or serve it to somebody. So make sure you have that texture that you want. And you guys can see how nice and fluffy and thick that is. Doesn't that look like a proper pancake? Again put it on top. When you layer your food like this that's what you'll learn in some plating. It helps keep it warm. So we've got our double stack. You already know I'm coming for you pancake butter and syrup. But let me do number three. I'm gonna go on the griddle and on the top. And then a nice another scoop of the batter. All it is is goat's cheese and eggs. You can use cream cheese and eggs if you can have full cow dairy. But y'all already know that's a substitute for me. So we're cooking number three. I don't know Amethyst I am looking for my community tab. I really wanted and I'm so thankful that you guys got me to 500 subscribers on YouTube. I kept like looking as soon as it crossed the threshold would it just pop up and it didn't. So I started doing some research and what Google says is your community tab can take like a week to appear. So I don't know someone go over there and tell me. I keep checking my emails. More butter on the second layer. And I don't see anything. I'm not panicking. Of course I'm not gonna panic. And then some syrup. I'm traveling the first week of April so that's why I wanted to have my community tab. So I think it has been a week. I'm traveling the first week of April and I wanted to keep connected with you all and show you what I'm eating. Full coffee. Yes you need this coffee. Absolutely. And I can make my own. I'll show you how I do that. But I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen my community tab yet. Yes you guys have made me international. Thank you so much for being here. Hello hello everyone. All right let me show you the iced coffee how I would make it Alicia. This again is from Panera Bread which is a coffee shop. They do have a subscription service. It's $9.99. I think it's called unlimited sip or something like that and you can have unlimited beverages. Now there's drink whatever you want to. You guys know that I try to go for as close to zero calorie beverages as I can. I'd rather eat my calories instead of drink them. And I don't count calories. It's just that there's so much in beverages that you can avoid. And for me there's nothing wrong with soda. Well I prefer to drink teas and coffees and water. I'll have a soda from time to time like with movies you know as a treat. But I'm not a big soda drinker. This is just me. I try to drink as close to natural. So if it grew from the earth tea or coffee as opposed to being created in a laboratory that's kind of what I do. So on this subscription that I get I could get unlimited you know sodas if I want to but I usually go for tea and coffee. All right I'll show you how I make my own. Pancake number three coming along. Oh I got new stuff delivered. I wanted to show you guys. I'll go on again later. I've got a meeting coming up. I'll go back on live later because I'm gonna try. I just want to try the egg drop soup and I have an idea for making some crispy noodles. So I'll try that later on today. Let's see how pancake number three. Y'all this little dash griddle moves pretty quickly. I made you a four stack. All right so just showing you this. This is like an on tap um iced coffee. Well it is on tap iced coffee. The same brand that has the um the flavor burst. So skinny, skinny mixes. They have iced coffee. This one is salted caramel. You can get vanilla. You can get whatever. So you've probably seen me get a glass with ice and then of course I can't have half and half. But I just discovered this and it's actually really good. Califia Farms. They have some plant-based creamers. I've tried some that I did not like but this one called better half which is like another version of half and half. It's half coconut and half almond milk. So I have to use plant-based creamers. If you can use full flavor um half and half please do and have some for me. All right I think I'm gonna check my turkey. Get this pancake. Oh yeah. The key for me with the pancakes you've got to do the butter and syrup on every layer. All right so let's get out number three. I'm going for four y'all. I haven't eaten today. I only eat two meals a day and I'm gonna do soup for my last meal. So y'all look at this pancake and look at the bottom of it. So we're gonna put that on the top right. I'm already excited. Okay last one I'm gonna do the butter on the bottom and the top of the griddle. I'm loving this little dash. There are other brands but for me the dash gets nice and hot. And then one nice scoop eggs and um goat cheese. Clean up and get that turkey bacon out. All right so I use more than half of the batter but um this will keep at least a day or two in the fridge. So if you have like a 10 ounce log of goat's cheese or cream cheese you don't have to cook at all. Y'all I'm new to this uh YouTube thing so I'll go back in and check and see if you know I'm supposed to do anything but I just keep waiting for that community tab to pop up so I can you know post pictures and do polls and whatever. All right so on our third we have our pat of goat's butter and then I'm going in with the syrup. All right so we're gonna let that melt down. It's still warm. Akata says there's a reason why I haven't had my um community tab. Are they coming for me? They don't like the message. They don't like the work that I'm doing. Look you know you guys I've shared I'm 46 so I've been on this health and wellness journey for three years. The first 40 years I ate like you know every other American and so I say do what works for you. I'm just sharing. You guys are here to help keep me accountable. If you like it you know great. If not I totally understand. People make changes when they're ready. I will never preach to you here about what you should be doing. All right bacon. Drop that chopstick. Getting excited. Okay get a plate. What? All right so you guys can see um the bacon. It's kind of you know not kind of but it's you know crisped up and um it starts to curl a little bit but I try to keep it flat. So I'll put a couple on my plate with the pancakes. This is also a good little protein snack. Think of it like jerky. All right. I did have an apple so I've already had my fruit. I'm gonna have a piece. Texture is nice. All right waiting on our last pancake and I'm gonna let you guys go. Yeah so Alicia's asking if you make this with cream cheese is it one-to-one? Yes. All of the recipes you guys that I share with you that I have come up with have been variations on regular recipes. So yes I saw this recipe one-to-one cream cheese and then I was like oh shucks I can't have cream cheese. I tried it with goat's cheese and it worked perfect. So if you can have dairy try it with cream cheese. I mean I have cream cheese in the fridge. You know I'm not a monster you know. I mean if people want you know what I can't have that's fine. You know cooking for your family sometimes you cook what you can't eat. So this block or like a Philadelphia this one's just Walmart brand. Eight ounce then you would do this whole block with eight eggs and then just blend everything and cook what you want. If it's just for you maybe cook half. If it's for everyone you know give it a try. They may uh enjoy it. All right waiting on our last pancake. I'm literally gonna plate it and taste it and then get back online. All right hope everybody is doing well. All right all right let me unplug. Getting excited. Got our last pancake nicely done. Last one on the stack. Butter, syrup, cranberry cinnamon, no flour, no cow dairy, no sugar. All right and then on the side I'm going to put a couple pieces of turkey bacon and I'm gonna cut into it. You see that? The money shot. Oh I meant to do some of this just because no reason. A little coconut whipped cream optional but I'm feeling fancy. Nice. Let me take a picture and then eat. Y'all this really looks good. I'm so excited. I wanted the blueberry uh goat's cheese but I placed my order and they were out of the blueberry so the shopper messaged me is okay if we get a different flavor and I was like yeah I'll try the cranberry. So let's see. All right picture's done. I'm going in. Just trying to show you guys. You can see the texture there. Gives you the pancake experience doesn't it? Thank you. All right so we've got four. You guys can see so good. I gotta run. I have a meeting. I know it is so good you guys honestly and then with the peppery turkey bacon. Look at that whipped cream running down. Oh my gosh. Y'all it is really really good. Cranberry, cinnamon, goat cheese. I'll be back in a few for dinner. Bye Instagram.