Cricket Flour Pancake Recipe!

Hello and Happy Presidents Day to everyone reading this!

Today I will be revealing the recipe for my delicious cricket flour pancakes as requested by Aspire Food Group on Twitter! Get excited!!

But first I would like to share with you a cartoon from this week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, it made me laugh so hard! Here it is:

New Yorker cartoon by Will McPhail

Isn't that hilarious? All right, now to the recipe!

This recipe is actually a combination of two pancake recipes, one from Bitty Foods and the other from the amazing cookbook The Family Cooks by Laurie David which I HIGHLY recommend that you all purchase!

Decadent Cricket Flour Oat Pancakes

A heart-shaped blueberry batch that I made for Valentines Day

Yields: 10 (5-inch) pancakes

11/2 cups of milk (can be cow, goat, almond, soy...)

3 eggs

1 tablespoon of maple syrup or honey

1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

11/2 cups of cricket flour

1/12 cups of rolled oats

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

coconut oil (for the pan)

Optional: Add-ins like banana slices, blueberries, nuts, or chocolate chips

1. Blend the oats in a blender until desired grain size is reached, I prefer finer grains, but whatever floats your boat! Combine oats in a bowl with the milk, eggs, maple syrup, cricket flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt and mix in an electric mixer until smooth. Let the batter rest for 10 minutes to let it thicken. 

2. At this time if you wanted to add anything in, mix in your fruit or nuts now!

3. Melt the coconut oil in the pan and let it heat up before spooning in your batter. Keep in mind that these pancakes are thick and that you will need to spread the batter around the pan in order to achieve a flat pancake.  Because these pancakes are thicker, they will need to cook for longer so cook and flip until both sides and edges are golden brown.

4. Serve with whatever fixings you want! I like to add clementine slices, banana slices, walnuts, ground cinnamon, and a spoonful of almond butter to top off my stack.

I just recently made a large batch of these pancakes and I have enough to have pancakes for breakfast for the rest of the week! Woohoo!!!

I hope you guys enjoy this recipe! Let me know how they turn out in the comments or you can show me via Instagram post with the hashtag #gourmandacricketpancakes. I want to see your beautiful stacks and I will repost all of your photos to my account @gourmanda_

Have a great Presidents Day!

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Jiminy Cricket!

Last Sunday I ate bugs for the first time.

No they were not crunchy or bitter, salty or squishy. They were actually quite delicious! This probably was due to the fact that I was eating pancakes made from cricket flour (see previous post about crickets!), and not whole bugs, which I do plan on doing. In fact, if I was unaware of the fact that I was eating insects, I would not have known the difference!

I made cinnamon cricket pancakes with bananas, topped with almond butter more bananas, and almonds. They were sweet and savory, fluffy and nutty, a perfect weekend-morning pancake! I really feel that insects are the new frontier for American cuisine and that I am a pioneer by being the first to try it out.

That is why it was crazy when on last Thursday evening, I received an email from someone I admire very much. Cynthia Graber of the new podcast on the science and history of food, Gastropod, replied to an email that I had sent for Gastropod's giveaway to the first four emailers of cricket treats from Aspire Food Group. She said that she and Nicola (her co-host) had already chosen four lucky listeners, but that they had contacted Aspire and agreed to send a gift basket to me as well!! I will be honest here, I was so happy when I heard this that I collapsed on the floor of my kitchen and started to cry. Oh, teenagers! :) If by any chance Cynthia or Nicola are reading this, I would like to thank you again! I am so excited to receive my gift basket and will share my review of it on this blog.

Whew! So that is where we are in my adventures with crickets, stay tuned to learn what becomes of me after I O.D. on bugs and I will also tell you more about Gastropod and how much I love it!

As always,

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Gourmanda