Spice up boring pancakes!

So who here isn't a morning person?

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exactly ... and unless it's the weekend who wants to be up at 6am cooking a 3 course breakfast meal for your kids or husband or even yourself? With that said however we all know breakfast is in fact the most important meal of the day, so how can we make breakfast easy, but still good and not boring. 

one word PANCAKES

it's so simple! 

now you can be like me and just get a box and add water =) 

bad culinary kid I know but I cut corners in the morning what can I say

A great way to add a little something extra (plus extra nutrients) to pancakes is fruit.

The other morning I made blueberry pancakes for James and I, they were amazing!

other variations that would be great are strawberries, raspberries ... really any berry or fruit. you could also add cinnamon or a little nutmeg, which would be great for fall, for a different flavor. 

Now in addition to all of this pancakes are great to freeze, so you could even make them from scratch on Sunday cook 2 batches and freeze a batch and re-heat them for your kids or whomever throughout the week!

On a side note, the garden is doing AMAZING! the morning glories are everywhere! Which is to be expected and I've been picking 2 or 3 tomatoes a day! Yesterday we picked our first cucumber and there's a few more that are getting pretty big and now out of no where the strawberries are producing fruit.

Here's a shot I took of the kitchen window above the sink.

The coffee cup planter in the middle has a cactus or two that you can't really see. They are growing very very slowly and i'm not really sure what's going to come of them since I've never grown them before and can't seem to keep the cat out of them =) one of these days she'll learn!