Gluten Free Acorn Pancakes ◇ Modern Hunter-Gatherer Recipe

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Experimenting with this year's acorns!

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So there's this awesone challenge @naturalmedicine has put together in collaboration with Make-it, a tribe thats's all about DIY and "how to" projects.

Here's the link to that challenge for you:
https://steempeak.com/build-it/@naturalmedicine/and

So my original idea was to make a solar dehydrator for our off-grid community. This would be used ro dry different wildcrafted medicinal herbs and whatever else we cpuld fit in there. I was getting the plans from this site:
https://offgridquest.com/fload/diy/best-ever-solar-food-dehydrator-plans?start=3

The build seems pretty straightforward if you're handy, but with the holidays and not living at pur place this winter, I can't see having the time to get started on this for the challenge. I know, excuses excuses... All I have are excuses!

So instead I made something I have never made; gluten-free pancakes. I'm not a no wheat diet type of person, not yet, but as I'm diving deeper into the world of re-wilding my interest in eating food meant for human consumption is growing.

At the same time... I would like to make this post my entry to @ecotrain's QOTW, Make Something Paleo to Eat!

Here's what I did (proudly without looking it up online!):

Ingredients:

  • 1 banana
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp of cinnamon
  • 3 tbs of acorn meal
  • dried blue berries
  • fresh cranberries

I cut the banana into a bowl, cracked the eggs into it, added my acorns then mashed and mixed it all up with a fork.

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In the meantime I had heated up a pan with some coconut oil to cook the craneberries to soften them up.

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Once that was ready I kust mixed it into the pancake batter with the cinnamon and that was it. I made sure all the banana pieces were properly smooshed and got my pan ready with some more coconut oil.

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Perhaps coconut oil wasn't the best oil to use because of its high temperature. I almost burnt the banana mixture, even on low flames, so for next time I'll have to rethink the cooking oil.

It only made about 8 silver dollar size pancakes but that was just right for one person and they were freakin delocious. Because this was an experiment I didn't want to waste too mich if it came out awefull, like my first batch of acorn porridge that turned out so very bitter!!!!

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Disclamer: The only ingredient that was gathered from the land was the acorn meal, next were the eggs that came from a friend's chickens, the rest however were all store bought, tho mostly organic they are far from being the things of a bio-regional diet.


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Nice gluten free recipe! This would have also made a great post for the Paleo Qotw! :)

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I am so all over the place... I missed that question along with lots of other ones for sure! Thanks tho

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Alex I'm so sorry that I missed it too - I just felt uninspired on cooking front as I'm home alone this week pretty much just eating broad beans from the garden.

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Excellent! Acorns (as well as other nuts) are a wonderful alternative to our grain-based foods, not only from a health perspective.

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I am trying to get away from the grain-based paradigms... it's actually really hard to do, especially durring family holidays meals!

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Well, I suppose it's hard because of our culture, our recipe traditions (especially holiday ones), our lack of imagination, believing that what we know and have the one and only way. Yet, in this post you are showing precisely that it doesn't have to be that way.

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Thanks for that. Yeah I showed it to myself also... I wonder if it was so satisfying and filling because it's much more nutrition dense than if I had used commercial products.

Today I broke a few of my own eating rules.

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Right! You need to experience real food in order to understand the meaning of "empty calories".

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I may ask you for that as a quote of the month one of these days.... It's so true, what you say about empty calories!

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Yeah, I'll remember to do that! I've been told that I tend to say quotable things, but usually someone else needs to point it out for me to notice.

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That's right, you do say quite a lot of quotable things.

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Paleo!! Go pop it in under QOTW. :) Yes, this IS how we should be eating (minus the teflon pan, of course). ;)

I'm guessing some yummy banana muffin things could happen with acorn meal, as well as some cool mushroom patties glued together with egg.


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HAHA! yes I guess I could put it in... I can still edit the post to add into the the QOTW link.

I would like to use all local ingredients one day... and we do have an iron skillet I thought about after we started cooking.

I'm thinking to change the banana to wild rice and the eggs could come from our own chickens or wildcrafted somehow?

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This looks SO GOOD. My 7 year old has been gathering acorns. they are tiny tho...

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Tiny ones are ok too... here's a video from an true expert if you want to get into it:

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Yum. We're gonna run the contest through to the 21st, so plenty of time to think of something for the contest too. Thanks for making an effort! I've never had acorn pancakes before, but it's pretty cool you made them from scratch!

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I made them from our second acorn batch... I had become a little impatient with the first batch, so the tannins weren't completely leached out and the porridge I made was really bitter!

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