That 1 Pancake Recipe Last Week

I am finding more and more that if I don't pre-plan out my recipes for the week I don't end up making anything. Well I made this one easy banana pancake recipe last week.

Banana Pancakes

Yum!

Easy Banana Pancake Recipe

• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 ripe bananas, sliced
• In a medium-size bowl, whisk together all your dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together all of the wet ingredients until the egg is broken up. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and add the sliced bananas. Gently stir until you stop seeing flour. Be careful not to over mix. Preheat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Moisten a paper towel with vegetable oil and lightly wipe the bottom of the pan. For each pancake, gently pour 1/2 cup of batter in the pan, using a ladle or a measuring cup. Bubbles will form in the batter. When they begin to pop, the pancakes are ready to be flipped. Turn over gently with the spatula and cook for about one minute on the flip side. Enjoy!

Super basic ingredients.

Thing's I've Learned

• Plan out my meals!!
• Any recipe that I can use to sneak in non favorite foods is a GREAT recipe!

"Perfect" Muffins

This is an interesting muffin recipe. I think it may be a stretch to say they are "perfect", since they are more of a bread than a muffin. My family sure liked them though!

Muffins

Good, but better with jelly and butter!

Perfect Muffins Recipe

• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a standard muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray or place in baking cups. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, and whisk lightly to combine. In a small glass measuring cup, whisk the milk and egg together. Add the milk and egg mixture and then the butter to the dry ingredients. Stir until just combined. The batter will be lumpy. Using a spoon scoop the batter evenly into the muffin tins. Bake for 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean. (I baked mine for 15 minutes.) Serve warm and enjoy!

Not a ton of ingredients.

Everything all combined.

Before baking.

After baking!

Yum!

Things I've Learned

• These muffins are more like bread (not very sweet). Which means they are even better with butter and/or jelly.
• I love cooking with whole wheat white flour. All of the recipes are more dense, but so much more filling. 

Crock Pot BBQ Wings

I made this root beer honey BBQ wings recipe yesterday to continue using the 3 ingredient crock pot recipes. I think I need a break from crock pot this week though. I am kind of tired of doing dishes by hand all the time or having a sink full of dishes.

Root Beet Honey BBQ Wings

They were okay, but the BBQ didn't really stick to the wings.

Crockpot Root Beet Honey BBQ Wings Recipe

• Approx. 12-14 chicken wings, thawed
• 1 bottle honey barbecue sauce (18 oz)
• 1/2 can root beer
• Place chicken wings in crockpot. Cover with lid and cook on high for 2 1/2 hours. After cooking remove juices from crockpot. In a separate bowl, combine root beer and BBQ sauce and stir well. Pour over chicken. Cover and cook for 30 more minutes, or until done. Enjoy!

All you need.

Eh... they tasted okay.

Things I've Learned

• I have to plan my time out of the house around when my crockpot recipe will be done. I cooked the last half hour of this recipe on low for one hour, because I had to go shopping. It feel off the bones super easy because of it though. Which I found as a bonus. 
• I need to just cut out soda from these types of recipes. I think they help keep the chicken moist, but they also make the BBQ sauce slide right off the chicken. Next time I will cook on high for 2 1/2 hours, drain the chicken, and then just cover with BBQ sauce and cook for a half hour. (Excluding the Root Beer.)
• I should have cut the wings down a bit. I didn't want to be wasteful, but the couple of edges of the wings aren't really eatable. I should have cut them off before baking. Oh well I will know for next time.