Pomegranate Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Pancake Sunday came a little early this week.

Since I’m nowhere near my warm kitchen today and probably somewhere in center city Philadelphia around mile 4 when this posts running a half marathon, I enjoyed these Friday morning instead.

Have you seen all the pancake Sundays of the past?

• Oatmeal pumpkin pancakes
• Pumpkin protein pancakes
• Apple spice pancakes
• Cinnamon pear pancakes
• Cranberry almond whole wheat pancakes
• Persimmon almond pancakes
• Gingerbread pumpkin pancakes

They’re definitely worth checking out along with these protein pancakes – my favorite go to high protein pancake recipe. 30g of protein in those babies will keep you full for awhile!

Some other fun pancake recipes to try:
Coconut flour pancakes
Cinnamon raisin oat bran pancakes
Banana nutmeg pancakes
Ricotta pancakes (these have coconut and caramelized banana creme fraiche topping – outrageously good!)

Pomegranates.

Everyone seems to love them this time of year.

Pom this, pom that.

The “virtual” pom peer pressure eventually got to me and I bought one this week.

On the second slice into the fruit, the knife slipped, the pomegranate went shooting across the counter, arils went flying everywhere, and it looked like a murder scene in my kitchen with red juice on me (and my white shirt..awesome planning) and the cabinets & walls.

Ginger came running in, sniffed around and then looked at me like “fruit? why can’t you drop bacon?!” and then walked out.

That’s when I remembered why I don’t really do pomegranates too often.

Although for this pomegranate flank steak or these orange pomegranate oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, they’re worth it.

I’ll happily pay $9.99 for a big bottle of POM juice or pick at arils that someone else has spent 20 minutes extracting, but deal with cutting the fruit myself?

No, thanks.

I have way more important things to do with that 20 minutes. Like play in blog or twitter-land as Ulysses likes to call it.

So, if you have the patience for pomegranates these pancakes are totally worth it.

The arils burst with tartness in your mouth while the chocolate chips keep it sweet and balanced.

I love chocolate chips in pancakes like in these sweet potato chocolate chip pancakes or these peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes.

They really were good, I was just jaded by the whole 15 minutes of unexpected kitchen cleanup on top of the 20 minutes of aril extraction and cooking time.

Pancake recipes should not be an hour long process!

Do you like pomegranates? Think they’re worth the effort?