Beeper's Favorite Food

In the market for a pancake recipe? Pancakes are a big fave around here--Beeper's meal of choice in all circumstances. In fact, we make them often enough that I no longer use a recipe to make them--it's all up in the ol' noggin. My recipe has evolved from the one in The Joy of Cooking--modified over time to include some heartier and heathier grains, more vanilla--but my one favorite tweak has been the addition of a little shake of Penzey's Baking Spice ( aren't familiar with Penzey's? Go here now--so many great spice and seasoning blends it will blow your friggin mind--you can download their whole spice catalog here)--listed as plain old cinnamon in the recipe below but this is so much more than just cinnamon (a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ground star anise and a couple of other things).

Also, I do have a bias in that I have come to belive that the best pancakes are made with buttermilk--there is no substitute (actually, there is--as you will see in the recipe below, but its still not as good as the real thing).

Here's our house recipe:· Add fresh blueberries, raspberries, peaches, nuts, or bananas (Beeper’s favorite). Enjoy with real maple syrup—and sausage, if you feel entitled to do so…(speaking of sausage, I also use Penzey's Tsardust Seasoning in some ground pork to make our breakfast sausage--and no, I am not on Penzey's bankroll, just a convert to the ease of opening a single bottle of seasoning and doing a little shake and knowing whatever you are making will now be extra delish). Oh--if you want a copy of my pancake recipe card above--right click on the image, select "save picture as" and save it to your computer--then you can paste it into a document later and print it out. No fuss or muss--just all the Chez Beeper Bebe pancake goodness.

And you can always call on the ubiquitous Mickey Mouse pancake. Untold amounts of mouse ears get eaten around here...