Breakfast for Dinner

Tonight it was breakfast for dinner. (Yes, Tim is still working and yes, I am still lazy.) We had pancakes, bacon and some berries. Our pancake recipe started as Alton Brown's "Instant" Pancakes (from the show Good Eats.) While our contents remain the same, our method varies slightly. That said, we're totally ripping his recipe. Here goes.

First, you have to make pancake mix. We always have some mixed and keep it in a large Tupperware container. You need:

6 cups AP flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 tablespoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons sugar

Place ingredients in a lidded container and shake.

Now the pancakes themselves....

Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a large bowl. Add 1 pint buttermilk and 2 eggs (lightly beaten.) Combine and then whisk in 2 cups of the pancake mix from above.

Heat frying pan to medium high (you may have to adjust down later) and grease with butter. Use an ice cream disher to portion out three pancakes. When the sides set and bubbles form on the top, flip and finish cooking.

I can't take credit at all seeing as this is someone else's recipe, but these are the best pancakes I have ever had. 

Breakfast/Dinner cost:

$3 Bacon

$1 Berries

$0.50 Pancake Mix

$0.36 Eggs

$0.40 Butter

$1.50 Buttermilk (I used the pint size which is more expensive but what I had on hand)

$6.76 Total or $1.35 a person (We still had 5 people since Maggie's best bud was over.) And we have pancakes left over for (real) breakfast and bacon left for lunch!