Hello PYMUO followers! Today will not be a beauty review but a recipe on the infamous banana and egg pancakes. They're fairly simple to make, and I added in a few extra ingredients.

 Ingredients:

1 Ripe Banana
2 Large Eggs
1 Scoop of Chocolate Protein Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
3 Teaspoon Olive Oil

Instructions

• Chop up one rip banana.
• Add in the two eggs and mush it all together!
• Add in the baking powder and vanilla extract. Mix it together.
• Mix in one scoop of your favourite chocolate protein powder. You can also substitute or add any other flavours. Sometimes I use fresh blueberries or chocolate chips, and sometimes cinnamon or nutmeg.

• Add the three teaspoons of olive oil in the pan. Heat the pan just below medium heat.
• After a couple of minutes, scoop out three tablespoons of your pancake mix on the pan. Each pancake is three tablespoons.
• Let sit for one to two minutes. Be gentle with these pancakes as they can fall apart easily. 
• Once the pancakes move around quit easily, flip them! Let the other side cook for another minute.
• The bottom two pancakes is what they should look like just put on the pan, and the top three is what it should look like cooked. They may turn out darker depending on the type of protein powder you use!

And that's it! These are fairly thin pancakes as you can see on the left picture.

These pancakes are VERY sweet, I didn't really need to put maple syrup on them! I use either honey or 100% maple syrup, and for a substitute for whipped cream I use vanilla greek yogurt (not shown).

I really hope you guys enjoy these. They're really easy to make and you can't really go wrong with them.

Inspired by this photo I decided to make my own because it looks so easy, and I like bananas. 

Ingredients you ask? Peanut butter and bananas!! It really is that easy! 

Because it's so easy I thought why not add another ingredient and make a frozen yogurt??

 I cut my bananas up like this.  Just as a reference point this is 2 bananas.

For  the recipe without yogurt I used one banana and one tablespoon of peanut butter.  Nothing too fancy, and then blend.

For the recipe including yogurt I used the 2 bananas, put approximately one and a half tablespoons of peanut butter in the blender and measured out one cup of yogurt.  I used coconut yogurt but virtually you could use any kind that you like or think might go well with bananas and peanut butter.

After you've blended all of the ingredients together, just toss it in the freezer for a few hours and then you have ice cream!
After tasting my homemade ice cream, the peanut butter aspect is extremely strong.  Even in the yogurt one where I added more banana, less peanut butter than recommended as well as yogurt on top peanut butter was still one of the stronger tastes.  It all depends on the ratio of your ingredients but if you don't particularly like that taste I wouldn't put a whole lot of peanut butter in your ice cream.  Other than that, this is a really simple, fast, amazing and healthy snack or treat.

If I don't use anything to treat my dandruff, I get really bad dandruff. Take a comb through my hair and there will be flakes all over. It will be snowing in July when I scrub my scalp.

A few times I have used Head & Shoulders, which eventually started to do nothing for it as I got older. I have also used Redken, but both these products felt so damaging to my hair. My scalp was dandruff and itch free, but my hair looked like I had been struck by lightening.

Kind of off topic here, but I love the look of dreadlocs. So much so, that I decided I wanted to get them. I ended up buying dreadloc shampoo, and if anything knows anything about dreadlocs, you have to wash them with a residue free shampoo. I started doing this before I wanted to put locs in and within a week my head was itch free yet again! The only thing is, I had to absolutely LOAD on the conditioner after I decided I didn't want locs anymore, but liked how it was treating my dandruff. My hair was so dry, that my hair stylist at the time gave me a deep conditioning treatment for 25 minutes!!

So as I'm contemplating on the site where I got the loc shampoo from whether or not to buy more for my dandruff, I seen a "dreadloc tonic" for irritated scalps. It basically looks like a tea bag, and you put the concoction into a spray bottle and let it steep.

Well, I figured, why can't I do that now? Would that work with my irritated scalp?
YES!!! And it's all natural too! And SO easy!! Such a money saver!! And smells so purdy.

Here's what you will need:

• spray bottle
• water
• tea bags
• sea salt
• tea tree oil (it's anti-fungal)

Here's what to do:

1. Put the tea bag into the spray bottle. Depending on how big the spray bottle is, add more for a better smell. You don't want to put too little either, unless you like the smell of tea tree oil. Peppermint is great for this, or you can experiment with other teas.
2. Fill the spray bottle with water from the sink. Please DO NOT boil water and then add it in a plastic bottle. You wouldn't believe how many people do that. AKA me.
3. Add in some sea salt. I like to add sea salt in for my curly hair. It gives it extra curl and it's also good for voluminous hair.
4. Add in around 10 drops of tea tree oil into your mixture.
5. Close the lid and shake it.
6. Leave it for about 2 hours or overnight for the tea to steep.

Tada! That's it!

Applying it is simple: Spray your scalp after you shower. Massage scalp.

I usually don't remake the bottle every week or so. I use it up pretty much. It lasts about a month or two at room temperature, so it should be OK. 

It takes about 3 washes to get rid of all dandruff.

I really don't think I'll buy another product for dandruff again. 

Thanks for reading! Let me know in the comments what you think!

I had been meaning to make pancakes for a while, but every time I wake up my brain doesn't want to function, and I forget the night before all my thoughts about pancakes.

I have to tell you, breakfast is my favourite thing to cook. It's so easy. I have cooked every kind of breakfast from foreign to healthy to super junky, everything in between and more. But I usually just stick with the basics.
Because like I said, it's so easy.

Last week I whipped up these AMAZING, THICK, FLUFFY, FILLING PANCAKES.

I honestly could go on and on and on about these pancakes but I'll just give you the recipe instead and let you try them out yourself.

THE WORLDS MOST AMAZING PANCAKES:

• 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon of sea salt
• 1 1/4 cups of almond milk
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• cinnamon

Mix the dry and wet ingredients in two separate bowls. Add as much cinnamon as you'd like (I like my cinnamon so I put a lot in). Add in extra vanilla extract as you wish.
Separate dry ingredients and slowly pour the wet in. 

Mix it together - it's okay if it's chunky and super thick. You WANT it this way.
Heat up a pan on medium heat and pour in olive oil. Wait until the pan is hot.
Using a 1/3 cup, scoop up the pancake batter and place it on the pan. You may spread it out a bit as you'd like, depending how thick you want your pancakes to be.
Place a clear lid on top of your pancake so it will cook evenly. Wait two minutes.
Flip your pancake over to the other side. Again, put the lid on and wait another one or two minutes.

Cook the rest of the pancake batter. 

And there you go! Thick AMAZING, scrumptious pancakes! :)
Hope you guys enjoy, let me know how yours turn out!

Raelene xox