Silver Dollar Pancakes with greek yogurt

Greek yogurt has become my Frank's Red Hot - I put it on everything.  Or more accurately, in everything.  It's high in protein, holds up well, and comes in low fat or no fat varieties that cook just as well as full fat sour cream.  This morning I altered the Joy of Cooking Silver Dollar Pancakes recipe to use Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.  The results were really good, especially with mini chocolate chips in them.  (The pancakes are so small that full size chocolate chips would overwhelm them.)  

Ingredients:

1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt 

2 large eggs

1 cup greek yogurt (I only had 3/4 of a cup, so I used what I had and then added about 1/4 cup milk.)  

Procedure:

1. Preheat griddle to medium heat.  (We have a two-burner griddle I'm still trying to master.  Today I found that heating it on "5" for about 10 minutes as I got food ready created an even-er heating surface.)

2. Mix together dry ingredients.  Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl.  Pour wet into dry, mix quickly.

3. Pour batter onto griddle to create small pancakes.  Mine are usually about 2 inches in diameter.  Add chocolate chips.  

4. Wait about 1 minute or so, and then check one of the cakes to see if it is ready to flip.  These do not act like normal pancakes and bubble, so you will have to do a little guesswork - so make sure the griddle is on low enough heat that the cakes don't burn.  

Breakfast is Delicious

This is actually a recipe from last week, and I'm sorry to be late with it - but it's so delicious you'll forgive me.
Last week, Moose and Squirrel (my future sister-in-law and her boyfriend) came to stay with us, and I decided to throw together a slow cooker breakfast casserole and some pancakes (I had leftover buttermilk from an ill-fated cake I tried to make. I'm not posting the recipe because it was not good.)

(Breakfast casserole - I recommend putting everything in the crockpot and actually mixing it together.)

The breakfast casserole was a poor man's version of this - I only had a half a thing of hash browns, and I only used 6 or 7 eggs. And I had to use bacon, because, um, I don't know how to cook sausage. It always goes poorly. So I don't. Bacon? I can cook. I ate around the bacon in this one, and didn't have a lot anyway. Because I was focusing on the deliciousness that is the AB Pancake.
If you don't own "I'm Just Here For More food"...you might want to, but only if you have enough time to cook. I've tried making some of the stuff in it, and I'm sorry, but some of AB's recipes are just. too. complicated. This one was pretty simple. The only thing it asked of me that I couldn't give it was a food processor for sifting. I sift with a strainer, which works okay. The key to great pancakes, apparently, lies in not overstirring, and in letting the batter rest.
So here is the pancake recipe. (Make ahead version here. Which I'm sorry, will save you about 5 seconds. But if you really need that time, go for it.)
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 tblsp sugar

2 L. eggs
2 cups buttermilk
4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled.

Procedure:
1.) Sift dry goods together.
2.) Mix wet goods together in a separate bowl.
3.) Pour wet goods into dry goods. Mix gently. You should not make more than 5 circles around the bowl. I think AB actually wants you to stick to 3. Batter will be lumpy. Do not break up the lumps! Do make sure you have scraped all the flour off the bottom and there are no massive clumps of flour.
4.) Set the batter aside to rest for 5 minutes. This is key. I know you are hungry, but wait.
5.) Heat a frying pan to medium-low, or an electric griddle to 350.
6.) Ladle pancakes into griddle and cook until bubbles have formed. Pay attention: Some of you may be inclined to flip your pancakes when they start to bubble - but you want to wait until they look like this.

See how the edges are cooked and the batter is looking like it set? You should be cooking your pancakes for about 3 minutes on one side, so adjust the heat lower and just be patient!

I think this was the best batch of pancakes I've ever made. I'm going to try it again soon with my usual buttermilk substitute of milk + vinegar.

Other Waffles

Imagine my surprise to realize I'd already posted the same waffle recipe! Sorry guys!
Here instead is the recipe for silver dollar pancakes, which I haven't made in awhile but are also delicious.
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 large eggs
• 8 oz sour cream

Equipment

• 2 bowls
• griddle
• turner

Procedure

• Mix dry ingredients.
  
• Mix wet ingredients.
• Mix together.
• Cook. If you don't know how to cook pancakes, you should find a cooking for beginners blog.