This is the best pancake recipe I’ve found, made with improvised buttermilk.  Try them!  If you like them, please send me a note!

Ingredients

(Make your own) Buttermilk

• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons of white vinegar

Dry ingredients for pancakes

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • To get crazy and good, use half cup of regular oatmeal, and half cup of whole wheat flour
  • To take this recipe completely over the top, use 1 cup of regular oatmeal and skip the flour completely!
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Additional ingredients

• 1 egg

Toppings

• 1 cup of blueberries
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chip
• 1/2 cup sliced nuts (almonds work great!)

Cooking tools

• Cooking spray
• Recommended griddle — you don’t want to cook one pancake at a time now do you?
• Note!  New recipe!  I no longer recommend a blender.  Just use a fork!  🙂

Instructions

1. 

   Combine milk and vinegar.  Stir quickly (only five seconds or so, just to mix the fluids).  Let stand for at least five minutes to sour.  Continue on with measuring other ingredients while the milk and vinegar sour.

2. Preheat griddle to 350 degrees.
3. Combine the dry ingredients flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. Blend the sour milk and eggs into the dry ingredients.
5. Start making pancakes!  Pour the size of pancake you wish to make.  I normally use a ladle.  
6. Sprinkle toppings on the pancakes immediately, as in right away, before the pancake cooks through.  

A few hints

• You’ll know the pancake is ready to flip over when cooking bubbles form and do not “resolve”.  There will be a light crust on the top of the pancake, firming up the mixture.  The light crust is really just identified by noticing the crust is no longer wet.  When the light crust forms, flip the pancake.
• Let cook just for a few moments on the backside.  The pancake will quickly cook through!
• Use cooking spray on the spatula.  This helps to slide the spatula under the pancake without breaking it.
• Only spray the griddle on the first set of pancakes.
• Make sure the griddle is fully preheated before cooking.
• Don’t use a Magic Bullet or anything with an enclosed mixing bowl! Trust me on this, it will explode  violently enough that you’ll be cleaning your kitchen for awhile.  🙂

Oatmeal, chocolate chip, and blueberry pancakes