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Ever craved pancakes but dreaded the post-breakfast energy crash? Join me as I solve this age-old dilemma with a game-changing recipe for easy protein cannabis pancakes that deliver all the weekend indulgence without the sluggishness.
This episode dives deep into my quest for the perfect protein pancake recipe—one that maintains the delicious texture and satisfaction of traditional pancakes while packing a nutritional punch. You'll discover how simple ingredients like oat flour, protein powder, and ripe banana transform into fluffy, delicious pancakes that fuel your day rather than derail it. Best of all, I share my foolproof method for cannabis infusion that makes dosing precise and adaptable for every tolerance level.
What makes these pancakes truly special is their versatility. Whether you're sharing breakfast with non-consumers or want to control your own dose with precision, the topping-based infusion method (using cannabutter or infused maple syrup) ensures everyone enjoys breakfast on their own terms. I walk through the entire process—from mixing to cooking to dosing—while sharing my personal Sunday morning ritual that has become the highlight of my week.
The episode also features a fun cannabis trivia segment, updates on upcoming interviews with industry experts Vanessa Lavorato and Michael DeVilliaers, and details about our March challenge in the Bite Me Cannabis Club. Ready to transform your weekend breakfast game while getting your morning dose? Grab your spatula and join me for this mouthwatering exploration of cannabis-infused protein pancakes!
Welcome, friends, to episode 290. Can you believe it? And today we're doing high protein pancakes. Welcome to Bite Me, the show about edibles, where I help you take control of your high life. I'm your host and certified gonger, margaret, and I love helping cooks make safe and effective edibles at home. I'm so glad you're here and welcome my friends back to Bite Me, the podcast that explores the intersection of food culture and cannabis, helping cooks make great edibles at home. I am so glad you're here to join me for another wonderful episode of Food and Cannabis Melded together. If you're tuning in for the first time, please let me know where you're listening from. You can send me a fan mail right inside your podcast platform and if you've been sticking around for a while, I really do appreciate you because otherwise I'd be talking to myself something I've mentioned many times before on this show and today we are diving into the world of high protein pancakes and I'll get into that in a second. Please do let me know, like I said, where you're listening from and if you have a favorite episode, I would love to hear it.
Speaker 1:
Now, before we get into the high protein pancakes, I thought I would do a little fun trivia question because why not? I have this deck of cards here that I'm using Stoner Trivia race to 420. I'm randomly choosing a card out of the deck and today the question is a knowledge question what state has the most pot smokers in the US? This might be up for debate, but the answers that give potential answers Oregon, washington, alaska Interesting that they didn't have California on that list. I don't know what the date is of these questions Copyright 2019, so perhaps it's a little out of date. You'll have to let me know if you agree with the answer. What state has the most pot smokers in the US Oregon, washington or Alaska? And if you answered Alaska, you would be correct. Congratulations on your pot knowledge. Very interesting that they also didn't have states like California or Colorado. I wonder if that's changed since these cards were printed.
Speaker 1:
So let's get into today's recipe, because why not? We'll just get right into it. Why protein pancakes? Recently I have done recipes such as the wonderful chicken carnitas tacos, as the recipe was gifted to me from Adam of your Canna Chef. I've also done curry ketchup from the Willie and Annie Nelson's Cannabis Cookbook, which was fantastic. I've actually been eating quite a bit of curry ketchup lately. I just finished it off a couple days ago and I can't really think any further back than that without actually having to look it up. But it just seems like these protein high protein pancakes are not really on any kind of theme, and that would be correct. So why protein pancakes?
Speaker 1:
I don't know about you, but I love a good pancake stack, but I don't eat them too often because traditional pancakes, while they are delicious, are pretty carb heavy and they really do leave me feeling sluggish. And this is something I tend to eat on the weekends, where you know you have a little bit more time, you're not having to rush off to work or anything like that. The last thing I want to do is eat a delicious stack of pancakes and feel like I have to have a nap before I get anything else. I shouldn't say done, but like get out of the house, run some errands, see friends, any of those things. Recently I have been experimenting with protein pancakes, and really no, for no other reason than the fact that Sunday morning would roll around and Sunday morning I love a slow Sunday morning and I put on a podcast and I'll find a protein pancake recipe because I most other days of the week, I eat, I drink a smoothie in the morning for breakfast. It has protein in it because I'm trying to get that protein content up, or protein intake up, which I find very difficult to do, but it is just how I like to start my mornings. I have this protein shake with, you know, some fruits and vegetables in it as well, and the creatine and some other things, and it's it's really good. It tastes good, it keeps me full for a long time. I'm getting a lot of protein. On Sunday mornings, when I had this extra time I have the house to myself, it's, you know, a slower morning.
Speaker 1:
The last few weeks I've been playing around with making protein pancakes because I wanted pancakes but I didn't want the sluggishness and I also didn't want to miss out on that protein intake that I was getting with the smoothie. So I started looking up some of these recipes. Now, of course, infusing them with cannabis takes them to the next level and it's a great way to get your cannabinoids in while enjoying a nice hearty Sunday morning meal or whenever you happen to eat them in your house. And the recipe that I finally settled on turned out really good in terms of texture and taste, which was important to me because I found some recipes. There's a few. Obviously, if you look up high protein pancakes online, you'll find all kinds of them, but some of them just didn't have that same texture and consistency as a regular pancake and I wanted to find something as close to the real thing as possible, because they are a little bit different. They do taste a little bit different than a traditional pancake.
Speaker 1:
So for the one that I found, essentially you do need quite a few ingredients, but they're all easy ingredients that most people have in their cupboard, with the exception of, maybe, the protein powder, if you're not someone who's already consuming protein powder. But it calls for rolled oats which you're going to blend into a flour. So basically, you need like oat flour. Maybe you have that on hand already, but if you don't, you can just blend that up in your blender for like 30 seconds. 30 seconds and voila, oat flour. So there's not really a need to go out and buy it separately. You need vanilla, protein powder, coconut flour. It only calls for a tablespoon. It just so happened that I had cocoa or coconut flour in my cupboard, because I have a variety of flours in my cupboard actually for just from doing a lot of baking over the years, so I just happen to have some, but I'm sure if you had to substitute something else, it would probably work. Similarly, you're only needing a tablespoon, so I mean, probably regular flour would also work if that's all you have on hand. You need baking powder, cinnamon, salt, half a medium ripe banana. So these are high protein banana pancakes. That banana did shine through an egg and some milk just a quarter cup. So you just need a little bit.
Speaker 1:
Now I did find other recipes that called for yogurt instead of milk. Quite a few of them call for something like yogurt, but I don't tend to buy yogurt very often. Sometimes I make it here and there, but I don't tend to buy yogurt very often. Sometimes I make it here and there, but I don't tend to buy it. And my dad, with whom I live if you didn't already know, a man in his 90s loves milk. Yes, so of course I went for the milk, because there's always some in the fridge. He loves nothing better than sitting down with a glass of cold milk. That is not a habit we share. Oftentimes, if I'm at home and I've made dinner, he'll say do you want dessert? And a lot of times that dessert might be like just strawberries, and he always asks me, even though every time I say no, would you like milk on your strawberries? Now, if it was like a completely full fat, like full heavy cream, maybe the answer would be different, but I'm just not much of a milk drinker. So so those are the rest of those, the ingredients that you will need for this recipe Nothing particularly difficult to find, which is what I loved about it as well, because when I decided to make this recipe one Sunday it's not like I went out and got made sure I had this stuff ahead of time I just did happen to have everything on hand and, of course, once you're done, you're going to top it with maple syrup, bananas, berries, chocolate chips, nut butters, whatever it is that you enjoy.
Speaker 1:
I've also seen people put jam on their pancakes. Instead of maple syrup, I always put butter, and for this particular instance, this is where you're going to infuse your pancakes, which is another reason why I like doing pancakes as an infused meal, because if you're eating them with somebody who doesn't want to be dosed, then it's very easy not to dose them. So the actual recipe itself doesn't have the cannabis in it, just so we're clear. I mean you could if you wanted, if you wanted to be extra, you could infuse the milk and use that in the pancakes if you so chose. But that seems like a little like a lot of extra work when you can use an infused butter, an infused pat of butter or an infused syrup for these pancakes, which is the direction I would go, because, like I said, if you're eating this with people and they don't want to be dosed, it's super easy to not just have regular maple syrup or regular butter on hand as well.
Speaker 1:
I have done pancakes for this show quite some time ago. I can't. I should have looked up before I started recording when that was, and I think that's what I did for those as well. It was a traditional flour pancake make you fall asleep recipe. If I was smart, I would say that you don't need don't need to infuse the pancakes themselves, but the toppings that you put on them. So, essentially, how do you make pancakes?
Speaker 1:
Well, if you don't already know, you mix your dry ingredients together and then, in another bowl, you mix your wet ingredients together. In this case, you're mashing the banana first and then you add all the rest of the wet ingredients and you just mix them all together and then you combine the wet and dry ingredients. I usually like to mix them finely in a bowl that has a bit of a spout on them so it's easier to dispense into the pan when you're ready to actually make the pancakes. These pancakes turned out on the drier side. If you find that the batter is too thick, you can always add a little bit extra milk if you need to and you're going to heat your skillet over medium-low heat on your stove. I sprayed my pan with some cooking spray and then you just pour the batter into the pan, cook them for a couple minutes, flip them another minute or so.
Speaker 1:
You know you've made pancakes before. Who hasn't made pancakes before? And that's it. That's why I also like it, so I don't have to wait forever. These came together pretty quickly so I didn't have to wait forever to get my. Really what I was looking for was a fix of infused honey or, sorry, infused maple syrup, because I love maple syrup and I've been really not finding excuses to eat it because I've been trying to maybe rein in the sweet tooth a little bit. I have been known from time to time to take a swig of maple syrup right out of the jug. I don't do that very often, but if I'm just being honest here, that's all. Maybe you've done something similar.
Speaker 1:
And what I also ended up doing is I would cook a couple of pancakes. I know this is maybe not super efficient, but I was eating them by myself. Cook a couple of pancakes. They're pretty small and it made about five pancakes, I think, in the end, which was the perfect amount. And because they're not really flour heavy, they don't make you feel sluggish, and that's what I really enjoyed about them. So I cook a couple of pancakes and then take the pan off the heat and then enjoy them while they were still hot and then cook up another couple. So that's how I did it. Of course, how I've often done them before is I've preheated the oven on a lower temperature and then just kept them warm on a plate in the oven until they were ready to be consumed by all who was consuming pancakes. But I was like why wait? Why do I need to wait? You are going to wait until there's a few little bubbles on those pancakes before you flip them. But that's just generally how pancakes are made. The recipe in question did say that you wouldn't see as many bubbles as you would in a regular pancake, and that was accurate, but these were really easy to make.
Speaker 1:
Once you're all done, you just give it the pat of infused butter or the drizzle of infused maple syrup, if that's the route that you're going, or, of course, you can combine the two if you have a higher tolerance. If that's the route that you're going, or, of course, you can combine the two if you have a higher tolerance, or that's what you want to do, there's, of course, different ways you can infuse these. I think that's the easiest way to do it. You could also add fresh berries along with it. They do have the banana flavors, just keep that in mind, but things like bananas and raspberries, for instance, would pair really nicely together, or blueberries or whatever. I didn't do that. If I had them on hand, I probably would have.
Speaker 1:
Now let's talk dosing for a second. Of course, the potency is going to depend on how strong your infusion is, and if you're new to edibles or you're unsure about your dose, start with less is more. I mean, you probably hear that over and over and over again, and there is a reason for that, because, despite all the warnings, all the cannabis cookbooks that I've ever picked up or ever read, always say, always have some anecdotal story about how somebody consumed edibles and didn't start with a low dose or had that these edibles ain't shit experience or moment and then ate more when they really shouldn't have. If you are uncertain, then start with a lower dose. Hopefully you're using a topping that has been dosed already and you have like a general idea. You can start with that pat of butter, knowing how strong it is, and then go from there. And then, of course, if you want more pancakes, you can always use non-infused butter as well, and that's really it.
Speaker 1:
I mean, pancakes are delicious, but I've really been enjoying making these on Sunday mornings, when I have a house to myself and it's nice and quiet and I'm listening to some music or a podcast and I can look out the window and see the birds flitting about or potentially the squirrels trying to get into the bird feeder, and it's just such a relaxed way to start a Sunday morning, and yet you're still getting in that protein. So this is for some of you athletes out there as well, and if you haven't heard that episode yet with Dr Whitney Algo, where she talks about cannabis and exercise, check that one out while you're making your pancakes and then you get a double dose of information. So, to recap, if you don't have protein powder on hand because it's not really something that you use, you can go to the store and instead of having to buy an entire jug. They often come in smaller sizes as well, but sometimes you can find like like individual servings or something like that in the stores. I haven't really looked at them in a while, but I've seen them before. So if you're traveling, for instance, and you just want to bring like a serving or two with you, then you could always pick something like that up.
Speaker 1:
You are going to make these pancakes following the recipe and then you're going to infuse them by changing up the toppings. If you have a pancake recipe that you love and you'd like me to try, let me know. Just to give you an idea of what is coming up, I have an interview coming up with Vanessa Lavorato and with Michael DeVilliers I will have to double check if I'm saying his name correctly. I'm excited about that and, of course, there's lots of fun things happening in the Bite Me Cannabis Club, so if you're interested, check it out.
Speaker 1:
I do have a challenge right now for the month of March, where you can try making sour yuzu drops. They're actually quite easy and yet I've failed to master them anytime that I've tried making them, even though they don't require any fancy ingredients, super fancy equipment. I mean, you need a thermometer of some kind, preferably a candy thermometer, I guess but like you don't need anything fancy, and yet they have eluded me. Anybody can join that challenge if that's something that sounds interesting to you, and I do have a prize for that one as well at the end of the month. So I just want to say thank you to everyone who is listening.
Speaker 1:
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