Sour Cream Blueberry Pancakes and Vanilla Syrup

Well, this is a Food for Thought Friday, but on Monday instead. I did think about food a lot on Friday, though. We decided to go out of town on Friday and look around a different part of Oklahoma we haven't seen before. So, we went to Muskogee, Checotah, (Carey Underwood's home town), Okmulgee, and Fort Gibson. All of them are in the same general area. Well, we did come home late Friday night, but too late for me to blog. I have pictures galore, and will share a little about that trip later. Anyways, some food for thought: I have noticed our cereal collection lately. It reminds me of some friends of ours who collected cereal. Well, they had about 12 boxes at a time, and we are a 3-box type. Just look at that picture, and see what we have become. I don't know, there must have been some good deals or something. I don't know why we have so many, but it sure reminds me of someone else's cereal cupboard. We have more in the back too, so you can't even see them all. In spite of all that cereal, I do make breakfast once in a while. I try to make it at least once a week since Emma was born. I used to do it more often, and plan on getting back into doing it at least 3 times a week when I get more sleep again.

The picture above is also something I've been thinking about. A bunch of ladies in my ward started a co-op. I LOVE it. We get produce every-other week and it is a surprise each time. We get the produce at a restaurant supply store, so it is high-quality, most of it's local, and it is much cheaper than the store prices. I do a half share, so I pay $10 and get all that produce up there. Here is what we got this week; green onions, broccoli, oranges, apples, pears, bananas, strawberries (they were consumed withing 5 minutes of getting inside the door), avocadoes, kiwi, tomatoes, lettuce, and cilantro. Isn't that great? Yum, good for you too.

Here is my recipe for the week. Well, maybe I'll give you 2. On the breakfast theme, this is one of my favorite pancake recipes. Perfect texture for me. A soft, melt-in-your-mouth center, and packed with flavor.

Sour Cream Blueberry Pancakes

2 C flour

1/4 C sugar

4 t baking powder

1/2 t salt 

2 eggs

1 1/2 C mild

1 C sour cream  (I have substituted all nonfat plain yogurt, and it tastes the same)

1/3 C butter, melted

1 C fresh or frozen blueberries

 Combine dry ingredients.  Mix wet ingredients together, then pour into dry. Mix until moistened.  Batter will be lumpy.  Fold in  berries.  Cook on hot griddle until done.

Vanilla Syrup

1 1/2 C sugar

3/4 C buttermilk

1/2 C butter

  Boil ingredients for 5 minutes,  and remove from heat.  

Add:

1 t baking soda

2 t vanilla

Do all of this in a deep pan, it gets really foamy and tall.  It is so good on the blueberry pancakes.