I made my weekly menu a mere 5 hours before dinner...how can it change so much in 5 short hours?!
Kids...it's always their fault right?...being on Christmas break the kids are stir crazy so when Madison invited a friend over to spend the night and then I extended the invitation to her friends younger brother so Wilson would have a friend...
how'd that change my dinner menu you might ask...I have a very strict policy with OUR kids, that I'm not a short order cook, that they might not LOVE what I've made for dinner, but I always make sure there is something on the table that they will eat...
Well, 2 new kids at the dinner table changes everything...
When asked, "What's for dinner?" about an hour before dinner time, I stated, "Potato Soup" and heard a chorus of, "NO," "do we have to," "YUCK," you get the idea...so even though I rarely change my dinner plans for my own picky kids, why make an entire meal when only two of the six people present will eat it...so they vetoed my plans...
(bummer too, it was Potato Soup weather today)
And they decided Pancakes for dinner...
well, actually they decided McDonalds for dinner, but when not one of the kids wanted to pay for it, they settled on pancakes...
and then, much to my chagrin, my husband suggest that I run to the store to buy his dad's secret pancake recipe...
(I have a HUGE desire to conquer the homemade pancake...
I have been working on it weekly for almost 5 years, every Saturday (almost) I wake up and prepare pancakes from scratch...
I know I can do it...
I have made some pretty good pancakes in the past 5 years...
I would venture to say, some Darn Good Pancakes...
regular...whole wheat...low fat...buttermilk...
pumpkin...blueberry...oatmeal...apple-butter...
but it never fails...
we visit the in-laws...
and my father-in-law breaks out the good ol' Krusteaz Buttermilk pancake mix...
and my husband reminds me that I just haven't reached Krusteaz perfection yet!)
so because I did need to run to the store anyways...
and because I love my husband...
and yes, because I just can't make a pancake as good as Krusteaz (YET!)...
I brought home a bag of the ChambersMade secret family pancake recipe mix...
But just because I can't leave good enough alone...I did some doctoring of the perfectly good Krusteaz...
ChambersMade Krusteaz Buttermilk Vanilla Pancakes
2 cups Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake mix
1 1/2 cups water
and 2 tsp vanilla (because vanilla makes almost everything better)
Mix together; batter will be lumpy, and pour onto hot griddle (375) cook 1 1/4 minutes per side....
serve with little smokies sausage and orange juice....
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Breakfast for Dinner
Sunday's are a lazy day for most...for our family it's a work day. My husband is the Children's Pastor at our Church (1st grade-5th grade) and I'm the Early Childhood Director (birth-kindergarten)...
(us at work...80's night for the kids...but still working!)
...so by the time dinner rolls around on Sunday we are toast, and that's why we usually opt for breakfast for dinner (pun intended!).
A favorite is country potatoes and scrambled cheesy eggs (the eggs made by my husband, I might be able to cook/bake many things, but the best ChamberMade eggs are made by Beau), but tonight I'm feeling like some flap-jacks, I made some really yummy ones yesterday morning and I've been thinking of them ever since. Don't have a name for them yet, "Pseudo-Buttermilk, Low Fat, Whole Wheat, Apple Butter Pancakes" seems like a mouth full...maybe just "Apple Butter Pancakes" will do and just knowing that they're Low Fat and Whole Wheat made with fake buttermilk will be fine...
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Apple-Butter Pancakes
1 tbs lemon juice or vinegar
1 cup no/low fat milk (approx)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 Tbs brown sugar
1 tea baking powder
1/4 tea baking soda
1/4 tea salt
1 beaten egg
3 Tbl Apple Butter* (or 3 Tbl of apple sauce and 1 tea of cinnamon)
1. In glass liquid messuring cup pour lemon juice or vinegar, add milk until it measures 1 cup, (this will make "sour milk" or "pseudo-buttermilk" with a lot less fat than regular buttermilk), let stand at room temperature for 5 minutes.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg, stir in apple butter, and add the sour milk. Gradually add the milk mixture to the dry, stir just until moistened; batter will be lumpy. Add additional milk if the batter is too thick.
3. Pour batter onto heated, lightly greased griddle (griddle should be around 350 degrees), or heavy skillet. Pancakes will get a bubbly surface and when the bubbles pop it's time to flip them.
These are great served with peanut butter (tossing the "low-fat" right out the window) or Nutella (a chocolate hazelnut spread that the kids and I love, Beau not so much) and vanilla syrup (will post that recipe soon).
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I was out of vanilla when I made these yesterday morning, so I will also be adding 2 tea of vanilla in the recipe tonight...can't go wrong with vanilla...
*in the recipe that I altered to make these it called for 2 Tbl of oil, in most "bread" recipes (yes, pancakes are in the bread family) , you can replace the oil/fat for a different "liquid", applesauce usually works very well, you can also use pumpkin (add more milk with pumpkin to thin the recipe down) I've made this recipe with pumpkin and we gobbled them up!
We don't eat a whole lot as a family so this recipe is good for us, but your family might need to double it because it makes only about 8 regular sized pancakes.
If you were having a full breakfast spread, serve with fresh fruit, scrambled eggs, slices of grilled ham, orange juice and coffee...very cozy breakfast/dinner!
(us at work...80's night for the kids...but still working!)
...so by the time dinner rolls around on Sunday we are toast, and that's why we usually opt for breakfast for dinner (pun intended!).
A favorite is country potatoes and scrambled cheesy eggs (the eggs made by my husband, I might be able to cook/bake many things, but the best ChamberMade eggs are made by Beau), but tonight I'm feeling like some flap-jacks, I made some really yummy ones yesterday morning and I've been thinking of them ever since. Don't have a name for them yet, "Pseudo-Buttermilk, Low Fat, Whole Wheat, Apple Butter Pancakes" seems like a mouth full...maybe just "Apple Butter Pancakes" will do and just knowing that they're Low Fat and Whole Wheat made with fake buttermilk will be fine...
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Apple-Butter Pancakes
1 tbs lemon juice or vinegar
1 cup no/low fat milk (approx)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 Tbs brown sugar
1 tea baking powder
1/4 tea baking soda
1/4 tea salt
1 beaten egg
3 Tbl Apple Butter* (or 3 Tbl of apple sauce and 1 tea of cinnamon)
1. In glass liquid messuring cup pour lemon juice or vinegar, add milk until it measures 1 cup, (this will make "sour milk" or "pseudo-buttermilk" with a lot less fat than regular buttermilk), let stand at room temperature for 5 minutes.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg, stir in apple butter, and add the sour milk. Gradually add the milk mixture to the dry, stir just until moistened; batter will be lumpy. Add additional milk if the batter is too thick.
3. Pour batter onto heated, lightly greased griddle (griddle should be around 350 degrees), or heavy skillet. Pancakes will get a bubbly surface and when the bubbles pop it's time to flip them.
These are great served with peanut butter (tossing the "low-fat" right out the window) or Nutella (a chocolate hazelnut spread that the kids and I love, Beau not so much) and vanilla syrup (will post that recipe soon).
~~~~~~
I was out of vanilla when I made these yesterday morning, so I will also be adding 2 tea of vanilla in the recipe tonight...can't go wrong with vanilla...
*in the recipe that I altered to make these it called for 2 Tbl of oil, in most "bread" recipes (yes, pancakes are in the bread family) , you can replace the oil/fat for a different "liquid", applesauce usually works very well, you can also use pumpkin (add more milk with pumpkin to thin the recipe down) I've made this recipe with pumpkin and we gobbled them up!
We don't eat a whole lot as a family so this recipe is good for us, but your family might need to double it because it makes only about 8 regular sized pancakes.
If you were having a full breakfast spread, serve with fresh fruit, scrambled eggs, slices of grilled ham, orange juice and coffee...very cozy breakfast/dinner!
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