Recipes: pancakes & waffles

Something we really like to make and keep on hand is breakfast for our kids. It makes morning a lot easier and kids love pancakes and waffles. Following is the recipes that we use for pancakes and waffles that I got from Mike's mom (hope she doesn't mind). We make these in mass quantities. Make as much as you want. We usually do at least 4 recipes at a time, then we have enough for a few weeks (when they don't eat them everyday).

Pancakes

1 1/4 cups flour
1 TBS. sugar
1 TBS. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
2 TBS. oil
1 egg

Mix all but milk and flour. Add milk and flour alternating until smooth. Cook on griddle.

Waffles

1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 TBS. sugar
2 eggs, separated
1/3 cup oil
1 cup milk

Separate egg whites. Beat whites until stiff. In separate bowl, mix sugar, oil and egg yolks. Add flour and milk alternating. Mix. Add egg whites last and fold in. Cook until done in waffle iron.

Hope your family enjoys these as much as ours does. We shake up our recipes to and we have added banana, peanut butter, and chocolate chips to the batter. We also have tried them with wheat flour, very yummy. And fruit with whipped cream is yummy for a topping.

I have started the freezer meals, but I am taking a different approach than making full meals, which would be nice, but time and money do not allow that right now. So right now I am focusing on getting meat frozen and stored for future use. I was able to get 4 pork roasts for $.99/lb. on Saturday, so I have been cooking those for the last couple days. Tonight we will have pork burritos and then I will freeze the rest to use later on bbq pulled pork and more burritos. Thanks to a good friend, I also scored a killer deal at local grocer on chicken breasts. I bought them for $1.29/lb! You don't see prices like that very often. I bought about 74 lbs. worth but half will go to my mom. But I am going to freeze my portion. I want to cube and cook some to use in quick casseroles and salads. I want to also marinade and grill a bunch, we like that more on salad. Otherwise I just clean the excess fat off, and then I filet them and cut in half, to make 4 small pieces of chicken. The chicken breasts I have been buying are huge so to keep us from eating too much and being able to stretch our meat, I cut into quarters.

I hope you are doing well with starting your freezer meals. Let me know how it's going and if you have any questions.