Pancakes to start the day right...

Let me tell you a secret, I never buy pancake mix anymore. I found this great recipe on the internet and tweaked it a bit. It was better than the store-bought pancake mix. This was great since the little one (Billy) loves pancakes smothered with butter and syrup. Big Bill loves it with bacon or sausages.


Here's how you prepare the pancakes (recipe for the batter will be at the bottom of this post). First, you start out with a hot skillet and a nob of butter (that's a tablespoon of butter for you newbies). Let the butter coat the bottom of the skillet thoroughly.


Take a ladle full of pancake batter and pour into your skillet. Let it spread into a flat circle. Now you have to watch this carefully, no leaving to answer the phone or check emails (it is easy to get the pancake overdone).


Now after about a minute and half, you'll see bubbles forming on top of your pancake. This is the signal to turn it over.


See? Our pancake is nice and golden brown on this side. Let the other side cook for about a minute now. When it is done, slide in onto a plate (you should have one waiting in easy reach) and go make your next pancake.


Now when you make a stack of pancakes, here's a tip. Butter each pancake and pour syrup in between layers. This will make the pancakes fluff up with syrup and satiate your little pancake eating monster.


This is my pancake, simple and unadorned by syrup. Only dabbed with butter and that's the way I like it.


And here is Bill's plate. He loves it with sausage, adoring the way the flavors of the sweetness of the syrup and the saltiness of the sausage mixing in his mouth.

Pancake Mix

Mix ingredients:
1 and 1/2 cups flour
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

For batter:
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of milk
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tbsp butter

1. Combine all the dry ingredients for the mix in a large mixing bowl.
2. Add the milk, eggs and the vanilla and stir thoroughly.
3. Don't mix too hard or too long, lumps are ok in the batter.
4. Use the butter to oil the skillet when you make the pancakes.
5. Serve pancakes with more butter and syrup.