Sourdough Stories, Episode 11: Pancakes (Discard Recipe)

 The Hubs requested pancakes for breakfast.  Lil' Man requested that they be BLUE.  I, personally, like chocolate chips in mine.  Let's see if we can satisfy everyone.

It was a very busy Saturday: we had an Easter egg hunt to attend, needed to reorganize the freezer to make room for the 1/4 cow coming our way, attend my aunt's 80th birthday party...oh yeah, and FEED THE BEAST that is Mandough.  

Again, we turn to The Clever Carrot for a nice, easy recipe.  I made the "Same Day" option.  I made a few for The Hubs first (plain, but with lots of butter in the pan so the edges get crispy), then wiped out the pan a bit and made the chocolate chip ones for me...then added some blue food coloring to the last of the batter for the kiddo. AND those got chocolate chips as well. Because chocolate chip pancakes are THE BEST.  

Lil' Man loves these books. I can't make chocolate chip pancakes and not think of this image.

I can fit about 3 in my skillet at a time, so as I finished a batch, they got tossed into a 250-degree oven to stay warm while the rest cooked.  This made quite a bit of batter--we each had a stack of about 3, and then had a bunch left over, which I stored in the fridge for weekday breakfast (Just pop them in the toaster & you're good!)

These were fluffy and filling and served us well until lunch (a pork tenderloin sandwich & cherry shake from my hometown drive-up, The Dari-Kup).  And just in case you were on the edge of your seat waiting to find out....yes. We managed to fit all 226 lbs of cow into our now very organized freezer.

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