Catching up with PW

It's been a VERY long time since I posted here about cooking The Pioneer Woman's recipes. The prune cake wasn't the last recipe I did. What happened was I started cooking each week with Melanie and I would post my recipe on my daily blog HERE.I never got around to copying the post to here which was my intention.  I'm going to try and do that now, and hopefully this Fall get back on board with cooking from Ree's cookbook. I've heard she's got a cooking show coming out on Foodnetwork this month AND she's got another cookbook in the works, although I haven't heard anything about a date for that one.

I'm not sure how I keep this message at the top of my page, so I may just have to copy and paste it to each new post until I have added all the recipes I've done so far. 

Here's the what I made after the Prune cake - posted to my daily blog on June 1st, 2010 

Edna Mae's Sour Cream Pancakes

It was my turn to pick the recipe this week and I chose Edna Mae's Sour Cream Pancakes. I have very little experience with making my own pancakes, I usually just buy them frozen and Kristen is the only one that eats them! When I don't have frozen in I've been known to use Bisquick and make my own, and I have tried a whole wheat recipe from 'Healthy Cooking' magazine which were ok but nothing to write home about. I've never tried pancakes with sour cream in them before so, just like a lot of the other wonderful recipes in this book, I couldn't wait to try these.

You start by mixing one cup of sour cream with 7 tablespoons of flour, 1 tbsp sugar, 1tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt. Stir together very gently.

next, pour in 2 large eggs whisked with 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

Again stir gently - above is my batter all ready for pouring. . .

I think you all know how to cook pancakes right? The recipes says to pour 1/4 cup at a time to make each pancake. See the pancakes on the left, they are the first ones I poured, but I think 1/4 cup was a bit big, so I used a little less mixture for the rest.

Looking good don't ya think?

and as quick as a flash - they're ready :-) The recipe said this would make 12 pancakes but I only got 10 out of the mixture. Let me add, 10 wonderfully delicious, hot fresh, melt in your mouth pancakes!

Verdict: I loved these pancakes, and will definitely be making them again. We all ate some for breakfast last weekend and they got thumbs up from Jason and Kristen too. What I loved about them is they are so simple to make, and the texture was nice and light, although not 'fluffy'. I found the pancakes a little flat I guess but that wasn't a bad thing. They tasted yummy and were soft and delicious - I think I liked them better than anything I've ever had at IHOP. Hop on over to Mel's and see what she thought of them!