Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Scratch cooking

Okay, so I've been making a conscious effort to make things from scratch rather than purchase convenience products. It is very time consuming, but very fulfilling too. So, I got to thinking about pancake batter and came across this blog post.

http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2008/03/batter-blaster-whats-wrong-with-this.html

I didn't even know this product existed. I can't imagine the taste of it. Sprayable pancake batter like nonstick pan spray? But, also at this blog they give a pancake batter recipe. I tried it. It was easy and yummy. Tasted much better than the normal Bisquick I make. I doubled the recipe b/c it clearly was not going to make enough for me, hubby and Zach. When I doubled it, I only used the 1 tbsp of sugar instead of doubling it and they tasted fine. I also did some with blueberries mixed in.

Mark's No Big Deal Pancake Recipe

1. Mix together 1 cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tbsp sugar or natural sweetener.
2. Add 1 c milk, 1 egg, and 1/4 c oil and mix everything together. Leaving it lumpy is okay.
3. Fry up your pancakes.

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Batter Blaster is yummy! Contrary to what you might think, it does not come out like non-stick cooking spray. In fact it is a nice, thick batter that comes out similarly to whip cream, except it is propelled by CO2, NOT NO2! Plus, it's organic!

Jen said...

Well, the being organic is definately a plus!! BUT! I think I will stick with my homemade batter. But, perhaps I should try to find some to test it out.
Where do you find it, because I've not seen it around.