Friday Home Workout and Pancakes

Happy Friday Lovelies! I've never really been excited about Fridays like everyone else because I don't work during the week but weekends instead. But I'm still a happy bunny whether its Friday or not. The UK weather seems to be better, more sunshine and a bit warmer. Feels more like autumn now.

Today, I didn't go gym in the morning but did a home workout instead. Since I don't have weights at home I tried to make my workout as hard as possible. I didn't eat, I just had a glass of warm lemon water prior the workout

Home workout

• 2 sets of 20 jumping jacks as a warm up. 
• 20 minutes of ab work out. 2 sets of 20 reps of each of the following exercise; sit ups, hip thrusts, pendulums, reverse crunches, full vertical crunches. (Oh sugar! I just remembered I forgot to do my favourite leg raises lol)
• Another 10 jumping jacks
• 10 burpees with push-ups
• 10 kneeling push-ups
• 10 jumping squats and 70 regular squats- all in one go.

After the workout I was starving so I made myself some protein pancakes! Yes, I love pancakes and I always experiment with different ingredients. So today I made "Silken Tofu and Banana Pancakes", it was so yummy!

What you need:

• 1 cup of silken tofu
• 1 cup of spelt four (or whatever flour you prefer)
• 1/2 cup of soya milk
• 1 banana
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder (optional)
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional)
• 1 tsp of sugar or other types of sweetener (I didn't use any sweetener because the soya milk I used was sweetened already)
• 1 tbsp rolled out oat (optional)

Method:
Blend everything together apart from the oats, add them to the batter later; this will give the pancakes some texture. I also added sunflower seeds to mine for extra crunchiness, add them after when you've poured the batter into the pan.

Once the pancake starts to bubble, it means its ready to be flipped over. I'll say cook each side for about 2 minutes on low heat. The first pancake is always the ugly one.

Have you seen any of those vegetables? I found them in Morrisons, how cool are they? White aubergine, Sicilian aubergine and yellow courgettes. I didn't buy any of them, not sure why but I will next time. I'm curious about the taste. It seems like supermarkets are selling more exotic vegetables now to differentiate themselves.

Have you made pancakes with Tofu before? What exotic vegetables do you usually eat?