I happened to be working from home one day last week, and because I was saving time on the commute (and you know, not needing to apply make-up, brush my hair and all that jazz), I thought I might step up my breakfast game, using my usual breakfast ingredients in a special way. Enter these pancakes!

I've had the idea of cottage cheese pancakes lurking in the back of my mind for a while - syrniki and blintzes have been on my to-do list forever - but I've also been meaning to make the healthy kind, the type that seems to keep popping up on health and fitness blogs, made with eggs, oats and cottage cheese. As I said above, I always have those ingredients on hand, and on this particular morning, I also had an overripe banana in the kitchen that had been staring at me disapprovingly for a few days. I searched for a pancake recipe pancakes with cottage cheese, oats, eggs AND bananas in it, found a nice-looking one on Ambitious Kitchen, and it was on like Donkey Kong!

These were super easy to make - just put all the ingredients in the blender and then cook! In addition to the bananas, oats, cottage cheese and egg, these pancakes have a little cinnamon and vanilla for flavour, plus a little baking powder for lift. I fried them in butter because butter is life! But if you wanted to keep in with the health and fitness theme, I guess you could just fry them in an un-oiled non-stick pan, or use whatever oil the health gurus are promoting these days.