National Pancake Day!

Happy National Pancake Day! We don't live anywhere close an IHOP, so this morning my little girl and I made pancakes for breakfast to celebrate. I thought I'd post my favorite pancake recipes. My daughter made little tiny pancakes, so that's what I took a picture of.

My Favorite Half-Wheat Pancakes
I used Annelisa's recipe (found below), and changed a few things to make these pancakes. I make them all the time.

3/4 c. white flour
3/4 c. wheat flour
1/3 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
2 T. flaxseed
1 1/2 T. butter, melted
1 1/2. T. applesauce
2 eggs, beaten
1 c. milk (may need to add a little more0

Mix together flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and flaxseed. In separate bowl mix together butter, applesauce, eggs, and milk. Combine dry and wet ingredients. Pour onto griddle and cook on both sides until golden brown (we like to make Mickey and Minnie Mouse shapes).

Maple Leaf Pancakes
I got this recipe from my sister-in-law, Annelisa, and we love it!

1 c. flour
1/3 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 egg, beaten
2 T. butter, melted
3/4 c. milk

Combine all wet ingredients. Mix butter, egg, and milk together. Fold wet ingredients into dry. You may need to add a little more milk.

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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