Pancakes for breakfast....or whatever

Cool, I'll have to try them!

Blintzes with fresh strawberries!

I grew up in a big family. Sometimes when money was in short supply - so was food and we had pancakes for supper. They have never been my favourite thing to eat. I can get past one if I have to but I avoid them if I can (as long as I am not hurting anyone's feelings) and they are a very fattening food. Something I can do without.

Crepes are to die for!

Yes they are - in more ways then one!

In heaven there are 72 (?) virgins, each with a plate of crepes.

All this talk about pancakes got me going, I bought a package 'organics' pancake
mix, made a batch, first time in a bout 2 years, (for supper).
(have to add eggs, butter and milk to mix.)
Had them with butter, maple syrup, and canned peaches on top, a nice green
salad with olive oil,grape seed oil & balsamic vinegar, enjoyed them, won't do
it too often.
I have changed any type of bacon,egg,potatoe type of breaky to 'later' in the
day now, as I feel much better when I eat that type of food later on, and not
first thing in the morning. I also don't have coffee till about one oclock.

Waffles, pancakes, crepes, that Russian thing where bread dough is fried and eaten, etc. All are yummy. Specially with butter and our homemade saskatoonberry jelly on them.
Maple syrup is good, too.

Hi I.P.

Pancakes themselves are not particularly fattening depending how many you eat but that changes if you really slather on the butter and syrup. When stawberries, blueberries, etc are in season you can probably do without the butter and syrup entirely.

hehehe Keyword = exercise

I have had a German fried bread dough, I which I had a recipe for either the Russian or German one...

The one thing Sarah Palin and I have in common - we both love pancakes!






In Gopherland they're called flapjacks.

A real pancake fan knows that the pancake is simply a vehicle to carry the maple syrup.

Definitely are just the container for the real treat! I also like our homemade Saskatoonberry jelly for variety.
"Pancakes for breakfast....or whatever" ..... Whatever is right. We had pancakes, bacon, and cackleberries for dinner the other evening.

This recipe reminds me of my Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie can be made with pumpkin as well as pureed, well cooked carrots, or yams, or sweet potato, or just about any kind of squash and nobody will know the difference. I'm sure your yam pancakes could be made with just about any of the things I mentioned and while they would be a little different, they would still be good. I tried them with pumpkin and they were great.

Hi Karrie,

I used to have the Muffins & More cookbook but it has disappeared. Near the same page as the pancake recipe is a basic waffle recipe I enjoyed - is it possible you cna post it?

Thanks,

Gary

A few years ago, I wisely switched any type of breakfast that contained pancakes, bacon, hash browns, with eggs, from breakfast to dinner, as I
noticed that I didn't feel great after eating that heavy food first thing,
especially if I also had coffee, but if I have it for dinner, everythings fine.
So, at least once a week now, I cook up a big breaky type 'dinner', delicious.
and no 'after' affects.

Jeez, how could I have missed this thread the first time around? I make, according to my daughter and her friends, the best pancakes in the world. It's probably not true, but hey, I'll take the accolade, and it's part of some of my favourite memories of her. Sunday morning, after a sleepover where nobody got any sleep, three or four little girls around the kitchen table, I'm making my famous "Daddy pancakes," and the girls are scarfing them down with butter and maple syrup and exclaiming over how great they are. Doesn't get any better than that.

I regret that I can't offer a recipe though. They're different every time, I just throw together what seem to be appropriate amounts of flour, milk, baking soda, sugar, vanilla extract, melted butter, and cinnamon, and whomp the mixture up 'til it looks right. Never had a failure, but never quite had a duplicate either. The only trick is to put the vanilla extract in last, after the baking soda has done its work, if you put it in too soon they won't rise.

Staple food in a logging camp. We call those with baking powder hotcakes and those without pancakes. Require bacon and eggs to make a meal. Where I grew up bacon grease is added to the mix so you don't have to oil the pan. Probably not real healthy but tastes good.

Now there is familiar ground. My daughter, when she was 8 or 10 years old, used to bring two or three of her friends home on a weekend for a sleep-over. I'm not sure when it was that they actually slept. Seems to me they were giggling and chattering the whole night.

For breakfast it was pancakes or waffles. At that time we had a fairly large stainless steel frying pan in which I could cook two medium or four small pancakes. Those four little girls would keep me busy making pancakes for at least an hour and a half.

In recent years my kids bought me a non-stick electric griddle that will turn out six good sized pancakes at one time.

My kids are grown up and married now, with children of their own, but once in a while we still see the pancake gang and occasionally, they get me to make pancakes again. Much easier with the griddle.