Gwyneth Paltrow Unleashes Her Vegan Pancakes Recipe
Filed under: food & drink — Michael d'Estries @ 1:38 pm
October 24th 2008
Gwyneth Paltrow recently launched a new website called GOOP — which basically is an outlet for her to impart knowledge on good places to eat, recipes, experiences and other sage advice. In other words, it’s like a fancy blog of sorts.
Anyways, even thought the GOOP website is a little sparse in content, the newsletter is up and running. Paltrow recently sent along a fine recipe for Buckwheat & Banana Pancakes. In her own words,
“I’ve got a thing for pancakes. This combination of nutty buckwheat and sweet, sticky banana is just great. You could sprinkle chopped walnuts on the pancakes as they’re cooking for a full-on pancake-meets-banana bread experience. These happen to be vegan, but don’t taste like it. Buckwheat flour adds a lot of value to the plain white flour – it’s rich in nutrients like calcium, iron, B vitamins and protein, and it’s gluten-free. Definitely worth a trip to the health food store.”
Want to grab the recipe? Check it out after the jump!
SERVES: 3 or 4 (makes about a dozen pancakes)
TIME: 15 minutes
1 1/4 cups soy or rice milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon maple syrup, plus more for serving
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour or white spelt flour (substitute rice flour to make pancakes completely gluten-free)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 bananas, thinly sliced
Mix all the wet ingredients together in a small bowl. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a slightly bigger bowl. Add the wet to the dry and stir just enough to combine – be careful not to over-mix (that’s how you get tough pancakes).
Heat a large nonstick skillet or griddle over medium-high heat (I love Jamie Oliver’s nonstick cookware – it’s so slippery that I don’t need to use any oil or butter). Ladle as many pancakes as possible onto your griddle. Place a few slices of banana on top of each pancake. Cook for about a minute and a half on the first side or until the surface is covered with small bubbles and the underside is nicely browned. Flip and cook for about a minute on the second side. Repeat the process until you run out of batter. Serve stacked high with plenty of maple syrup.
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I wonder if she prepares her pancakes while wearing her fur coat line she models.
there’s nothing i can’t stand more than a hypocrite.
I was just thinking the same thing! What a joke this one is.
hahaha – had the same brainwave as both of you.
i also wonder, tho, about Jamie Oliver’s cookware – if the nonstick is just some kind of teflon (which, as we know is turning out to be quite unhealthy when it chips off into our food…)
I agree with all of the above and my first thought was:
“Gee, does she list what FUR boutique she shops in as a favorite store?”
hi ladies
great minds think alike eh?
shannon; you might want to check out http://Mercola.com He’s an MD who has a holistic approach and talks about how Teflon is also bad when you heat the pan up and you breathe the chemicals. Shows scientific studies how bad it can be.
A shame Ms. Paltrow couldn’t be a better role model.
Ok talk to you all later!
XO E
I think it’s always a good thing when someone presents vegan food or any aspect of veganism as delicious, doable and positive.
Take a (vegan) chill pill, Harpies! So, she’s not vegan, we get that. Does that mean she shouldn’t be respected in any way for doing something positive for our cause? If that’s the case, there are many people to hate on. Have at it! (Or, perhaps you’ll choose to be the compassionate, positive beings that I know you are).
I like Gwyneth. If you don’t then move on and chill out.
Nice that she cooks vegan brekkies but did she have to model for the fur scum company?
C’mon, Gwinnie, ditch the fur! You can do it!
Consistency is over-rated. I think most of us vegans were hypocrites somewhere along our journey and many of us still are. It’s not about moral purity or ethical consistency, it’s about refraining from harm and about doing good. Publishing this recipe is doing good.
If you want to get on her case for wearing fur, go ahead. But make it about the animals and the fur, not about consistency or hypocrisy.
Dear Asthma (or however u spell it)
She actually IS vegan
http://famous-vegans.blogspot.com/2005/06/gwyneth-paltrow-vegan-apple.html
hence the reason we are upset that she goes modeling and taking money from and promoting wearing FUR for God’s sake.
And Elaine; with all due respect – I am sure I’ve been a hypocrite in life. But I don’t know m/any vegans who would wear dead animals in ads promoting others to do the same. That is sick shit.
I am surprised she hasn’t been asked about this in an interview. I also think her site Goop (and the newsletter I saw) were amongst the most pretentious crap I’ve ever read (and yes – she and i are born on the same day – and used to be a fan)
E
Uh, Dear E (does that stand for “Erroneous”?)…If she is wearing and promoting FUR she’s not vegan IS SHE???
Anyway, despite that silly and outdated link, there is recent footage of her eating animals and animal secretions with Mario Batali.
Also, she’s said on television that she doesn’t eat “4 legged land animals” but eats other animals and products.
Dear Everyone,
A vegan doesn’t have to be all animal rights, there is such a thing as trying to be healthy. For the most part I think that she has a vegan diet but NOT a vegan lifestyle. Not everything is black and white.
- Brenda