Pancakes for breakfast is one of my favourite weekend treats. I feel like I have got the recipe pretty much down by now, but when fall rolled around I had to change it up a bit. And what better way to do so then to add the iconic pumpkin to it? Pumpkin puree is not a very common ingredient here in Norway, but when I came across it the other day I knew I had to make some recipes with it. Do here's the first one, I hope you enjoy!



Ingredients

This is pretty much fall in a bowl. Warming and flavourful and the perfect start to your day. You can choose to use quinoa flakes, regular whole quinoa or even oats for this recipe. 



Ingredients
1/2 cup quinoa
1 cup liquid (I use half almond milk and half water)
1 tsp vanilla powder or extract
1 tbsp chia seeds (optional)

1 red apple
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tbsp maple syrup
Water to cover the bottom of your pot

Method
Start by mixing together the porridge ingredients in a pot and put that on the hob on medium-high heat. The cooking process is pretty similar to cooking regular quinoa, so just follow the instruction on the package for cooking times. 
While the porridge is cooking, chop the apples into bite sized pieces and add those to another pot with cinnamon, nutmeg and maple syrup. Cover the bottom of the pot with water and add to the hob on medium-high heat. Keep an eye on both pots to make sure they don't burn, but other than that you can't really go wrong with the cooking of these. 
Once the porridge is done, add it to a bowl and top it with the apples (don't worry if there's a bit of liquid left in the pot, it'll mix nicely with the porridge). Eat it like that or top with some cacao nibs, goji berries and hemp seeds. 

I'm not sure how it is other places, but here in Norway it is really common to eat slices of bread for breakfast. Here are some of my favourite flavour combinations, so I hope you enjoy them. These are of course really customisable though, so get creative and have fun with it. 




Slice #1
Homemade vegan nutella
Banana slices
Strawberry slices
Kiwi slices
Chia seeds

Slice #2
Tahini
Avocado
Cucumber
Blueberries (trust me, it's delicious)
Chia seeds

Slice #3
Avocado
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber slices
Hemp seeds

Slice #4
Coconut butter
Sliced Strawberries 
Cacao nibs

Slice #5
Almond butter
Pear slices
Blueberries
Quinoa Puffs

This smoothie bowl is so delicious. The sea buckthorn berries gives it a slightly unusual, but absolutely amazing citrusy flavour, and the oats bulk it up a bit to make it more filling while the banana and mango makes it creamy and wonderful. Sea buckthorn berries have an absolutely amazing content of vitamin C + healthy omega fatty acids, but if you can't find it you could substitute it for orange instead. 

This granola is absolutely delicious! It is filled with flavour and will make your mornings that much better. You could even add cacao nibs or chocolate chips and make it a chunky monkey granola! Yes, please :) 




Ingredients
3 cups old fashioned oats (use gluten free oats if allergic)
1 cup peanuts
1 large ripe banana
1/3 cup natural creamy peanut butter
1/3 cup maple syrup
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon sea salt

These granola fruit tarts were such a happy discovery! The base is absolutely delicious, and you can customise the toppings completely to your liking! They are also so healthy that you can have them for breakfast without any guilt. 


Ingredients
3/4 cup (2dl) oats

Pancakes were one of my favorite things when I was little, whenever we would have them I would always be so excited. Now here’s the thing though. In Norway we eat pancakes for dinner! They are big and thin and almost like a tortilla in size and shape. It wasn’t until I was 10 and went to the US that I experienced pancakes for breakfast for the first time. And they were so weird compared to what I was used to – small and thick and kinda strange tasting. Haha! Granted my first experience with breakfast pancakes was at Mc Donalds, so I don’t blame the strange taste on the fact that they were small and thick.