Recipe: Banana blueberry pancakes (with one banana and lots of blueberries)
Banana blueberry pancakes make good use of a too-soft banana. Debbie Arrington
Bananas may be a tropical fruit, but they don’t last long in this heat. It seems just a day or two on the counter, and they go black.
(And I’ve met folks who have successfully grown edible bananas in Sacramento – not the Cavendish variety so familiar in supermarkets, but stubby little finger bananas. The trick: Providing winter protection for the plant from freezing cold.)
What to do with an overripe banana? Banana pancakes, of course. Add summer blueberries and you have a special (and filling) breakfast treat.
Banana blueberry pancakes
Makes 7 to 8 pancakes
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 overripe banana, mashed
½ cup milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup blueberries, washed
Butter or margarine for the griddle
Into a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a small bowl or large measuring cup, combine mashed banana and milk. Stir in beaten egg, then oil.
Add banana-milk mixture to dry ingredients. Stir until moistened. Fold in blueberries.
Heat griddle to 350 degrees F. Butter griddle, then ladle batter onto hot griddle. Cook until bubbles start to form on top of pancakes; flip pancakes over and cook until done, about 2 to 3 minutes more.
Remove from griddle. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup.
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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