Single Serving Pancakes

Dining for One

Living alone is always a challenge for cooking.  

Whether it be finding the receipes to create single servings, (I'm not a huge fan of left-overs) finding 

small portions at the market or just missing the pleasure of cooking and eating with others, cooking for one is a constant learning curve.

The good ole world wide web does offer a repository of wonderful ideas 

on just about every subject you could hope to google.  

After finding recipes I like, I start to adjust ingredients according to my taste 

and so it seemed prudent to include give these works in progress a home for others to enjoy.

Today I had a craving for pancakes.  Not sure why; a memory of Pancake Saturday's with friends or just a craving for something that included flour.  So I start where millions of other women start, Pinterest and started with this recipe, which I will turn into my own.  It makes two nice size pancakes, just enough to be filling with no left over batter.  I will continue to adjust this recipe as I experiment with different flours and will try to keep notes on how things turned out.

Single Serving Pancakes

Ingredients

1/3 cup  flour (I used Speerville Mill Unbleached White Flour)

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

pinch salt

1 egg, large

1/4 cup milk (I used blend)

1 tsp melted butter

Directions

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and powder and salt.

In a medium bowl, whisk together egg, milk, butter.

Using a fork, stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients until just combined. Do not overmix. Batter will be a bit lumpy.
Let the batter settle for 5-10 minutes, there should be some bubbles happening.
You can also add some thinly sliced bananas to the batter, or blueberries.

Preheat a fry pan over low-medium heat, add small piece of butter to melt.

Scoop 1/3 cup of batter onto hot pan and shake pan gently to even out batter.
Cook until bubbles form on surface. Watch temperature of pan, cakes can burn quickly before done.
To finish off, I like to drizzle lemon juice and then of course pure maple syrup.