Monday, July 16, 2012

Banana Blueberry Sour Cream Pancakes


A good friend, Michelle Kaiser, just made the move to Ohio.  She will be an assistant professor at OSU starting today.  Wishing her luck on her first day!  I'm so glad to have her close by again.  We met during college working for ASP.  Then we became good friends while we lived in Asheville together.  We spent Saturday evening enjoying some Apricot Ales and reminiscing.  We had some great times in Asheville.  Some were not so great.  Thankfully we can laugh about those experiences now.

Neither one of us had a camera for the weekend.  Two people with only flip phones is almost unheard  of these days.  So I'm using an old picture of the Asheville girls.  If only we could get Ally to move back to Ohio.

We also had dinner with Audra and Jonathon.  They have a stressful week of dissertation defense, moving to West Virginia, and closing on their first house.  Sad they are leaving Ohio.  Excited about possible travels to West Virginia to visit them.  Hope all goes smoothly this week for the two of you.


A weekend with Kaiser gave me some motivation to head back to the kitchen.  She whipped up some delicious blueberry pancakes on Sunday.  I was reminded of a pancake recipe I wanted to try at home.  This morning I pulled it out and cooked up some pancakes with my nephew, Cole.

They were delicious.  They are filling pancakes.  The recipe below will make enough for 5-6 people.  It makes thicker filling pancakes.  If there are only a few of you, you may want to half the recipe.  If you do not like blueberries, leave them out.  They taste like banana bread without the berries.

All cooking was supervised by Ms. Sadie


Banana Blueberry Sour Cream Pancakes

Ingredients:
2 Cup Flour
1 Tbsp and 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups mashed bananas (approx. 2 bananas)
2 lg egg
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
3/4 tsp vanilla
6 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted and cooled
blueberries
Canola oil

Directions:
1.  Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt and cinamon together in large mixing bowl.
2.  In medium mixing bowl, mix together bananas, eggs, sour cream, milk, vanilla, and butter.
3.  Stire banana mixture into the flour mixture until well combined.
4.  Brush skillet with canola oil.  Heat over medium heat.  Place 1/4 cup batter in skillet and top with some blueberries.  When bubbles form on top,flip pancake and cook until golden brown.