Who knew that a good way to lose all of one’s free time is to have 3 babies in about that many years? To illustrate further: this simple and rather stress-less recipe for quick ricotta pancakes has been photographed over a year ago. Variations of these pancakes happened multiple times during that time frame; much to the ecstatic thrill of the earlier mentioned babies. All you really need to make this recipe is some kind of blender. Did I mention that taste can be customized with a single ingredient switch? The pink hue here is freeze-dried strawberry powder. Alternatively, it can be citrus zest or even vanilla extract.

I could never understand granola. Having first tried it ages ago, it felt dry, boring and was obviously out of a bag. After such a failed experience, I had no interest in pursuing it for years. It’s definitely not something I would ever consider ordering for breakfast. And I certainly never slowed down next to granola shelves while grocery shopping. For the sake of full disclosure, I still do neither of those things. But after a pure chance of luck where some fancy homemade granola was part of a breakfast package at a place we used to frequent, my opinion of it changed. So I now make it quite regularly at home. Fortunately, the recipe is extremely straight-forward and very interchangeable in terms of ingredients.