Sunday Funday with WIAW and Gingerbread Pancakes

I think I have mentioned before that Sundays are my most favorite days of the week.  I try really hard to get all of the major chores done on Saturday so our main focus can be fun and relaxation. For us that normally involves food.  

This past week I had mad cravings for breakfast, particularly pancakes. Mr. J is always up for a good, hearty breakfast and it didn't take much to convince him to hold off eating till after my run. He even jumped up to warm up my car knowing that I wouldn't diddy dally getting ready when my car was running.  Smart man.

He wanted eggs and bacon. I wanted pancakes.  We both had some of each.  

These weren't just any pancakes though. I added molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger to the recipe for some Gingerbread pancakes. I think I stirred the batter a bit too much because they weren't as fluffy as normal but the taste was fantastic.  I will be doing this again.

Gingerbread pancakes

by Emily Morris

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Keywords: breakfast 

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Ingredients (serves 2)

• 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves
• 1 cup buttermilk (can substitute milk or plain yogurt)
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon molasses

Instructions

Mix the flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and cloves in a large bowl.

Mix the milk, egg, butter, sugar and molasses in another bowl.

Mix the wet and dry ingredients making sure to not over mix.

Heat a pan and melt a touch of butter in it.

Pour 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan and heat until the surface starts to bubble and the bottom is golden brown, about 2-3 minutes.

Flip the pancake and cook the other side until the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes.

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Lunch was I kind of forgot about.  Ops! 

We had leftover sausage kale soup.  It is marvelous.  The recipe will be up and ready the day after Thanksgiving. I call it detox.

Dinner was a Mr. J specialty.  I had some leftover sausage from a soup I made and needed something to use the rest of it.  Pizza was the likely answer.  Our favorite pizza is sausage, onion, garlic, and hot pepper.  I was all set to make a regular pizza when Mr. J announced that what he really wanted was pan pizza. 
 

At first I wasn't convinced.  In fact, I was a bit annoyed by his last minute change up but in the end it was super easy to press the dough into one of our larger pans.  The rest of the set up was the same except the cooking time.  We added about 15-20 minutes longer to make sure the thicker crust was cooked through.  I think this might have been the only time we had a perfectly rounded pizza.

Have you ever made pan pizza?