Saturday Sour Cream and Spinach Pancakes
1 batch pancake batter
1 1/2 cups fresh spinach
1/2 cup sour cream
3 eggs
1/3 cup honey
1 T flaxseed meal (optional)
Yes, I made this recipe up. Yes, it’s delicious and nutritious!
Prepare a batch of pancake batter. Set aside.
Blend the spinach in a blender or food processor until completely chopped. It will make about 1/2 cup. Set aside.
Stir in sour cream to the batter. Combine well with a fork until smooth. Add honey and eggs. Add the chopped spinach and the flaxseed meal to the batter and stir.
Make into pancakes as normal.
Enjoy!
how about renaming this post "Saturday Sour Cream and Spinach SLAPJACKS" just to stay in the "S" mode? JK……it was just a random thought that had occured to me. They look….umm….yummy? Not sure the family would go for it! They would like a "Terrific Taco and Tostado Tuesday though"
Okay just went and read the comments…If your readers think spinach is gross you need to try this:
pear halves, dollop of mayonnaise, and grated cheddar cheese on top
My mouth is watering just typing it. My mee-maw made this for me growing up and it has become a family favorite.
I L.O.V.E. spinach. I eat it with everything (quiche, pizza, eggs…). It's gotta be the perfect food
It looks disgusting but it probably tastes great!
Is that FiestaWare?? Let's talk Fiesta!!
So… I was sitting in a hotel with MY three MSC's on Vaca and I turn on Good Morning America… and I see one of my fav' blogging buddies?! Wow!!! Congrats on your appearance, but so awful that a fellow blogger needed to go to such extremes for whatever reason…
Hugs! Onemorebaby
just want to say I was the 1000th voter for you on "Most inspiring blog!" GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!
MckMama – very well spoken on the show! You rock! You have no crossed the blogoshpere line, but instead spoke very authentically and professionally! Thanks for being the voice for so many!
Made these this morning and they were fantastic! I must admit that I was in a hurry and read my own handwriting incorrectly. I added 1.5 c of sour cream (.5c reg, .5c lite &.5c plain yogurt), so mine were more like crepes, but good regardless. Even my doubting husband went back for more. Thanks for posting!
This looks great. My kids love spinach. We have a great spinach and cream cheese pasta recipe that we eat once a week.
Do you use Fiestaware dishes? (the purple plate)
I don't post too often on here but I thought that I would today. You see, today would have been my daughters third birthday and on this day (and many others), I ALWAYS think of Holland. I have thought of sharing this with you before as you have gone through things with S and his health but I figured someone else had already shared it with you. But today, being Hope's birthday, I thought that I would share it just in case you had never heard it…
"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this . . .
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum, Michelangelo’s David, the gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland.' 'Holland?' you say, “What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.' But there’s been a change in flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland, and there you must stay.
The most important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine, and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for awhile and you catch your breath, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life you will say, 'Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned.'
The pain of that will never, ever go away, because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland."
Another one to try out! Yumm. I'm all up for new things!
LOVE the recipie ideas! Keep them coming! I like to mix in a little Laughing Cow cheese (the soft stuff), with chopped spinach and spread it on a piece of toast. I did this for my son to get him to eat spinach and now we both love it!
mmm…sounds delicious!
Thank you so much for this recipe -I am definitely going to try it out on my MSC. Praying for blessings for your beautiful family~
Oh, I love pancakes! I'll make sure to try this interesting variation soon!
On another note- I was reading your babywearing posts, and I was wondering which brand is that polka dot sling you showed us in the photos from the cruise. Very cute!
Looks Yummy!!!
Just randomly turned on the TV and saw you on the Sunday morning Good Morning America.
You spoke good words! Loved that you ended it with FORGIVENESS! Poor Becka! Needs prayer!
Catching up on your posts. I think you look beautiful in the picture you posted Friday. I feel a little weird telling another woman she is beautiful, but we should all encourage each other and I really do think you look lovely in that one. Didn't see any gum though.
I will really try to remember to come to your site and find all the recipes I meant to write down when I read them the first time. Maybe I'll be lucky and a magic recipe button will show up soon. Maybe it will even have printable recipes.
I'm not sure my husband will go for spinach in pancakes, but he surprises me all the time.
I love your blog. It may be a guilty pleasure, but I always "get" something of value when I visit. A recipe, a lesson about God and GPS's, lovely photos, photography advice, green cleaning tips. Important stuff. Stuff that shows you really care about people. Love It.
Stephanie
YUMMY!
Thanks SO Much! I see you actually have recipe ideas…duh, never noticed
I want you to know you have encouraged me to experiment more. I love couscous and now so do my little grandkids that live with me 
I made them couscous with cinnamon, dried cranberries, walnuts, a little splenda, and a few tablespoons of half and half and they thought they were having a desert! Yummmmy! But then they think everything I make is Great! Cooked apples to them is desert as well because I serve it last 
Anyway hope all stays quiet for you, always in our prayers 
Vicki & Family~
Yet another person wondering what, if anything, you put on these. They sound and look yummy!
Loving how you made even a dirty food processor look beautiful by putting it in the window sill!!
(at least I THINK that's why it looks so beautifully lit!)
Thanks for the super sweet spinach sour cream suggestion!!
Same question here. What do you eat on them?
I'll have to admit this is a very interesting approach to pancakes, wonder if I can get these by my boyfriend? Doubtful but worth a shot.
I might have to try these out for my Hubby. He LOVES spinish and he love sour cream. Surely he would love these, right!?
Looks amaaaaazing! That's #17 recipe for my MckMama Cookbook…does that sound about right? Keep sharing:-)
I have been gone the past few days camping with my family and I half literally spent the last almost 2 hours "updating" myself to your blog and Tweets (and all the links I wanted to check out). I really wish sometimes that I had a cell phone (yes, we are weird like that) so I could Tweet you back! There are so many things that I want to say all the time.
I also wanted to say that I sometimes ponder how I can go on and on in my comments (just like this) to someone I don't really know, well at least not in real life. I guess I am just lucky that you are willing to read them all
If you didn't think that this comment about nothing in particular could get any longer, there are many thoughts that I have kept to my self to spare you :0 I guess you are lucky too! (Although you don't believe in luck!)
OK, I'm feeling a little guilty about the doughnut recipe I just posted! Ha! These look awesome though! I bet they'd be great topped w/ a little more sour cream and honey.
That does sound yummy. Does it have a savory taste despite the honey? What do you dress them with? I will have to try this.
Thank you for another brilliant recipe. We just had your MckPancakes for dinner and they were fantastic!!! My entire crew enjoyed them. Then I come to check in and find these. I'm thinking we may have these tomorrow after our house viewing. Spinach and sour cream just happened to be on my grocery list and I'm always looking for a way to use up my flaxseed meal quickly. Thanks again!
My hubby said, "No thank you!"
I'd try it though!
I was pretty excited to see a recipe with no nuts (my son is allergic to tree nuts). I don't love spinach but I have wanted to try one of your recipes and now I can:)
I'm LOVING these recipes for the {one and only} breakfast I make D !!
Great recipe! I "hide" pureed spinach in almost EVERYTHING! I'm a very picky eater (and it looks like my younger son will be as well), so stuffing foods I like with pureed spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes, etc. is almost the only way I get my veggies!
I haven't tried it with pancakes… yet, but definitely will next weekend!
Thank you!
Did your kids really eat that? Mine would be complaining about all the green things in there.
Can't wait to try this one. I LOVE spinach. My blog frog widget said you visited my page…surely thats a mistake…your way too "blog famous" to have visited my page…right? If you actually did, or ever do again, leave me a little note in the comments, if you have a second…that would make my week to know that MckMama had read anything I wrote…
Okay, I've got to get me a food processor.
Oh and by the way, I totally love your nick names for the kids and yourself!
Nell
thaqt looks interesting… um… different, that's for sure, lol
This looks totally mouth watering!
Nell
You are seriously incredible. I think you are now my hero.
You are seriously incredible. I think you are now my hero.
You are seriously incredible. I think you are now my hero.
wha? how much is one "batch" of pancake mix…?
I just.. can't do it… sour cream? in pancakes? it just seems weird. how do you THINK of things like that?! even if I was being super wild and creative, spinach and sour cream would NOT enter my mind. ever. those two things do NOT seem breakfast-y at all. now, bacon-stuffed pancakes? THERE'S something tasty..
DID you REALLY put 1/2 cup of spinash and sour cream in yummy sweet pancakes…not real sure about this one. It reminds me of a spinach quasodilla pancake style! Maybe you can have a test taste at the Mckpicnic
Interesting…
Thanks for the recipe. This morning as I was checking in on your blog I told my husband that you made spinich sour cream pancakes and though I thought "eww", he said "yum!". I wasn't surprised. We'll have to try 'em out.
Ah, no. Sorry. Spinach belongs in omelettes, but NOT pancakes.
Very interesting recipe! Not sure my kiddos would eat it though. They do love them some granola and I was wondering if you have a good, easy granola recipe you'd like to share?
Saw your tweet about the turtle eggs. My family and I had the awesome opportunity last summer to watch a momma turtle dig the hole, lay her eggs, and then watch the babies hatch and find their way to the pond. Neatest thing ever!!!
Anywho, if you have a granola recipe you'd like to share my email address is jernigan4jc@embarqmail.com or you can find me on my blog at http://www.byhisgraceministry.com
Thanks! Blessings to you and yours!! Enjoy your time at Zoo/Conservatory. :O)
Jenifer
That looks soooooooooo good! I love sour cream (can eat it with a spoon) and I love spinach! I'll have to try this one. I bet my kids will love it too!
I think it looks really tasty. Not sure if I could get my husband to eat it…the kids might though.
Yum! That sounds really good! I think I will be trying these for sure! Thanks!
~Amy
I just don't think I can bring myself to put spinach in my pancakes. I eat spinach in other things, like omelets. But pancakes? I'm not convinced MckMama!
This sounds good….but the honey in there seems weird to me?? No? I guess I'll have to take your word for it. I think I might give it a whirl though, once I have operational cold storage in my house again. Sigh.
Oh, Tasty!
LOL–you called your husband a handsome manly doll? Imagine he liked that
These look good..do you think you could substitute the sour cream for cream cheese? Allergy to it in this house..throat swollen shut allergy which stinks cause its good stuff! I am going to give it a go..cream cheese works with anything, I think!
I am sorry….but that does not sound appetizing to me. Sounds like you had fun making it though, and as long as your kids will eat it….good on ya!!!
I think I will stick to chocolate chip or blueberry pancakes for now. ;o)
Oh man those look delicious.
I'll be trying those for sure.
Have a beautiful weekend sweetie.
Di
hey, could you use kale instead of spinach?
People are so funny! Can you even taste the spinach in the pancake with the honey and cream in there? Thanx for the great idea! I can't wait to try it =)
I'll take your word for it that it was good. But gathering from your twitter updates the big boys enjoyed it!
mmm? then what do you put on the pancakes?? a dollup of sour cream or butter?? sounds interesting enough to try!
Um…no offense, MckMama, but that sounds pretty gross. I guess, don't knock it 'til you try it…but still…not sure I would try it.
Wow for someone who hates to cook, you sure are good and creative at it! Will you come cook for us sometime, bring the whole fam.! : )
Ew
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Although I shouldn't knock it till I've tried it. And because of you my husband is hooked on Nutella…and because I had heard of Tahini on your blog it has been a blessing in my son's crazy diet. So even though I said "ew"…I know I can't knock it till I've tried it.
mmmhhh, that sounds yummy. I'll have to try it out next time I make pancakes. The boys and me enjoyed some gluten free blueberry pancakes this morning.
Ummmmmmm…not so sure!
do you still put syrup on them?!
Great idea! I love this!
I'm constantly coming up with "new" pancake recipes. (Basically I just throw whatever sounds healthy and yummy into them.
) The current fave at our house is beet and blueberry pancakes. Pureed beets, unsweetened applesauce, a little vanilla, cinnamon, a couple of eggs and some pancake batter make for good (pink!) eats! No syrup required. 
I am going to have to try something like this. My Goosie girl LOVES pancakes and am wondering if I can sneak some green in them. Hummm
Your totally putting Paula Dean to shame!
) Love it.
Okay…….now I'm going to leave a nasty comment on your comment board…Just kidding, it's just im not that into spinach….and spinach pancakes? Really? Although I shouldn't knock it before I try it right? I try to each healthy, but this one, not sure about it! Only you my dear friend would see that recipe and think…Hmmmm I think Im going to try it. Most of us would see the title of that, and breeze right on by it. I am wondering the same as the comment above me….do you each syrup with spinach pancakes;)
I am curious too, do you eat them with syrup or plain or with what on top?
looks delish- i can't wait to try it!
em
hmmmm….there is no actual evidence of your children eating these, posted. where is the photographic evidence?
That sure sounds, uh, interesting. But, I guess if you like zucchini bread it would be a similar idea. Might be worth trying. It would certainly give the plain old pancake a little nutritional punch.
My kids LOVE spinach! We will definitely be trying these! Looks delicious!
I don't know about the spinach….LOL…..I would have a hard time passing that off around here!
Sounds yummy…I will definately have to try this on my non-spinach eating family.
I'm going to have to try that, just won't my husband what's in it.
Yum!! Those sound and look amazing!! Thanks for sharing the "recipe" I am definitely going to have to try that one. Happy Saturday
Sounds SOOOO Yummy!! Will definitely be trying it!
LOL You and I think alike
I throw spinach in just about everything I make for my son! These sound great and are on the menu for tomorrow morning!
and SONYA!! That's me!! S's are great!!
I love spinach…and sour cream I will have to try this recipe.
You had me at sour cream!
Do you use syrup or just eat them plain?
yumm yumm..sounds great!!! I´m gonna try it soon!!!
sounds yummy, did you serve this as lunch or breakfast? seems like a great brunch dish to me
Thanks,
Melody
Girl, you can make any food seem delicious with your photography. I know you have to be making every photographer out there jealous
Simply stupendous, sweetie!
Wow! You are just something else! SPINACH – PANCAKES!!! Who knew????
Have to admit it sounds great!
That does sound interesting. You always have the most fun with recipes! I love that about you! Have a great Saturday.
i know you are so busy…but please tell me quick (which means whenever the heck you have two minutes to help a blog challenged mom of four MSC out!),how do i get back to old posts to write down yummy recipes…like the veggie granola,or whatever it is called?? also, i wanted to write out your cleaning naturally tips with regards to teatree oil etc.
THANKS!!!!!
cortez6.blogspot.com
Are you SURE this tastes good? At least the spinach is ground up.
Woah…I didn't even realize I'd be first! Usually I'm about 489th….sweet!!
The weekend is off to a great start haha…Happy Saturday!
Spinach and Sour Cream?? Really?? I'll try it, but I can only get my kids to eat chocolate chip in their pancakes… wonder what chocolate chip and spinach tastes like?? I might try it!
sounds awesome, i love spinach!!!
Not a huge spinach fan (unless its in artichoke dip!) but that look yummy enough to try!!