Light & Fluffy Banana Pancakes

I said we like breakfast in my house, I wasn't kidding!  And I also mentioned that Ryan is typically our breakfast chef...also, not kidding.   ;)   Ryan made these pancakes this morning and they were great, very light and fluffy!  Taking a page from the cookbook of Julie, he found a recipe on allrecipes.com and added his own touches (including the bananas).  We topped with maple syrup (100% real, none of that maple "flavored" corn syrup crap here) and fresh blueberries.  But, after living in Maine for a summer a couple years ago, Ryan has become a total blueberry snob and they don't seem to be good enough unless they're straight off the bush.  So here's the recipe...

Ingredients:

Pancakes are hard to take good photos of,
the syrup sinks in too quickly!

3/4 cup milk

2 tbsp white vinegar

1 cup flour

2 tbsp white sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

dash of cinnamon

dash of nutmeg

1 egg

2 tablespoons butter, melted

2 ripe bananas, mashed

cooking spray

Instructions:

1)  Combine milk with vinegar in a medium bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to "sour.”

2)  Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large mixing bowl.  Whisk egg and butter into "soured" milk.  Stir in bananas just until evenly mixed.  Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients and whisk until lumps are almost gone (you’ll probably still have some banana lumps).

3)  Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and coat with cooking spray. Pour 1/4 cupfuls of batter onto the skillet, and cook until bubbles appear on the surface. Flip with a spatula, and cook until browned on the other side.

enjoy!

 ~ j