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Going with the Grain: Multigrain Pancakes with Bananas Foster Syrup
January 21, 2015 By Isabelle Boucher | Filed Under: breakfast, brunch, vegetarian
Life, as they say, is all about finding balance. It’s about fitting in an extra workout so you can splurge on cheesecake for dessert, sitting down to a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast before tackling your crazy-long to-do list, or ordering a big salad with your greasy burger instead of fries.
Or, in this case, using a stack of healthy multigrain pancakes to balance out a decadent bananas foster syrup. Because surely one can be excused for having a rum-spiked sweet treat for breakfast when it happens to be paired up with a healthy dose of whole grains, right?
Not…
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