This Mama Cooks! Reviews

Log Cabin Syrup’s Breakfast Basket winners

Here are the three lucky winners in the Log Cabin Breakfast Basket giveaway:

• Becky from Deep Muck, Big Rake
• Janis at Bite Me New England
• Josie at Yum Yucky

I also want to thank Log Cabin Syrup and Frani at the Bender Hammerling Group for sponsoring my trip to BlogHer09.

I’ve enjoyed partnering with Log Cabin, sharing their recipes with my readers, having a giveaway, and spreading the word that Log Cabin Syrups no longer contain high fructose corn syrup.

Thanks for your support!

More back to school breakfast ideas from Log Cabin Syrups

Some of us, both kids and adults, need eggs in meat in the morning, but are put off by the ingredients in commercially prepared breakfast sausage or patties.

How about trying to make your own with this recipe from Log Cabin Syrups?

Mix up the homemade sausage patties the night before so all you have to do is cook them up in the morning while you’re toasting the English muffins and scrambling the eggs.

Back to school with Log Cabin Syrup and without high fructose corn syrup

School starts for us next week! That means getting two sleepy kids out the door for the carpool by 7:30 a.m. This means getting them cleaned up, packed. dressed – and most importantly – fed. After all breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

According to AboutKidsHealth.com, a site that provides families with reliable, current information about all areas influencing childhood health and family quality of life, teachers observe that children who do not eat a fulfilling breakfast are less attentive and experience more learning difficulties than students who do.

So how do you get your kids to eat a healthy breakfast? Since my daughter, Lucie, claims not to be hungry most mornings, I have to entice her with something yummy and fun like pancakes. Here’s a recipe from Log Cabin Syrup, the brand that recently replaced High Fructose Corn Syrup with natural sugar, and my sponsor at BlogHer09.

Monkey Fun Pancakes

(makes 6 pancakes)

Ingredients:

• 2 cup sifted, self-rising flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons Log Cabin Syrup
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 2 cups milk
• 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Pinch salt

Topping:

• ½ cup chopped walnuts
• 2 ripe bananas, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons Log Cabin Syrup
• Confectioner’s sugar
• Whipped Cream

Directions:

1. Sift flour, salt and cinnamon into a large bowl. In a second bowl combine syrup, egg and milk.
2. Add wet ingredients gradually to flour and mix until smooth. Whisk in oil until mixture is smooth.
3. Pour the batter by 2/3 cupful onto a lightly greased hot griddle or greased non-stick pan. Turn them over when bubbles form on top of pancakes. Continue cooking until second side has turned a golden brown color.
4. Keep pancakes warm and prepare topping by slicing banana’s into a bowl. add chopped walnuts. Sprinkle Log Cabin Syrup over banana mixture. Carefully mix.
5. To serve, spoon mixture over finished pancakes, dust with confectioner’s sugar and drizzle with more maple syrup. Top with whipped cream.

Tips to make breakfast even more healthy:

• use low or no fat milk
• substitute one egg with three egg whites
• instead of whipped cream, top with low fat yogurt
• omit nuts if your child has a nut allergy and substitute with pine nuts (which are really seeds) which are full of protein
• add some ground flax seed or flax seed oil to the pancake batter for an Omega-3 boost
• add some vanilla protein powder for extra protein

Having one of those mornings?

On those crazy mornings where you’re lucky to get the kids out the door with both shoes on, you may want to keep some Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes in the freezer just in case. They recently released a blueberry flavor along with their homestyle, buttermilk, low fat Buttermilk, whole grain and mini varieties.

For a hearty back-to-school breakfast for less than 400 calories, you can microwave 3 Aunt Jemima Frozen Blueberry Pancakes (250 calories), top with half of a sliced banana (54 calories), and drizzle 1 tablespoon of Log Cabin’s lite maple syrup (50 calories).

Win a Breakfast Basket from Log Cabin Syrup

As part of my BlogHer09 sponsorship, Log Cabin syrup is giving away THREE Breakfast Baskets here at This Mama Cooks! Reviews to my readers.

Each basket comes with a pancake spatula, pancake mix, a whisk, high fructose corn syrup free Log Cabin syrup, a pancake plate, and a breakfast cup. Everything you need for a family pancake breakfast!

This would be perfect to take in the RV on a camping trip or to send to college with your teenager (assuming they’re living in an apartment). And with school just two to three weeks away, having a little pancake mix and syrup in the house on those harried mornings is always a good thing.

Here’s how to win one of the THREE Log Cabin Syrup Breakfast Baskets:

Log Cabin Style Maple Ribs

My husband loves to use his smoker to cook up ribs and shoulder roasts (see my post Eat barbecue and lose weight for the recipes). But not everyone has a smoker, the time to use it or even a deck to put it on.

Well, Log Cabin comes to the rescue with this recipe for Maple Ribs that can be done on the stovetop and in the oven. Since you have to boil the ribs and make the marinade the night before so the ribs can marinate, the best time to start this recipe is the evening before you want to eat them. Cook time is less than an hour after that, so hopefully your kitchen won’t be too stifling in the summer heat.

Enjoy!