Oatmeal cottage cheese pancakes with banana!

I have had a container of cottage cheese just sitting in my fridge for over a week now. I am sick of eating it plain. So, I looked up recipes online that contain cottage cheese and found some for cottage cheese pancakes (I had no idea such a thing existed before). Of course, I didn't have the ingredient combinations that most recipes used online so here is my modified version of cottage cheese pancakes. They came out pretty well. The only thing I must emphasize is that you MUST make these pancakes on the smaller size or else you will have them fall apart and burn on you... like mine did on the first try. oops.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 banana mashed
2 eggs
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

• Pretty easy. Mix all of the ingredients together.
• I would mix the egg first by itself in a separate bowl and then add.
• Measure out a little more than 1/4 cup batter and cook in pan with a bit of butter for about 3-5 minutes on each side. 
• Eat, eat, eat. So delicious!
• Makes about 7 little pancakes. 

Whole wheat apple cake (or bread?)

Baking is a great way to procrastinate. You don't have to do your work AND you get awesome food! It's really a win win. Since I had two granny smith apples in my fridge I decided I would make whole wheat apple cake.. or bread? I am not quite sure what this should be considered. However, I do know that it is yummy!

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon 

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 granny smith apples, grated

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 cup oil 

1/4 cup vanilla greek nonfat yogurt  

2 eggs

• First, preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• In a large bowl combine all of the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt
• Peel the skin off the apples and then grate. Once you have your grated apple squeeze out most of the liquid and then stir the grated apple into the dry ingredients 
• In a separate bowl mix the oil, greek yogurt, and eggs. Then add to the dry ingredients. Mix, mix, mix!
• You can place your 1/2 cup of walnuts in a plastic bag and smash with a heavy object. Then, add the walnuts to the bowl. Mix!
• Pour your batter into a greased baking pan 8x4 or 9x5
• Bake for 50 minutes
• Enjoy! I like to eat this apple cake warm with a bit of butter :)