Perfect Pancakes

I love breakfast food.  Every Sunday night I make breakfast food for dinner.  It's become a tradition in our house.  This pancake recipe is my favorite!  I'll never use another recipe or go back to bisquik.  Try it!  You'll love it!

1 egg
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 cup buttermilk*
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 TBS sugar

Whisk wet ingredients.  Combine dry ingredients- stir into wet.  If batter seems too thick add a little more milk.  I personally like my pancakes thin so I keep the batter pretty runny.  The pancakes will cook evenly this way too.

*If you don't have buttermilk (who does?) add a little vinegar to your milk and let it sit for a couple minutes.  Voila! Buttemilk.

This recipe makes plenty for me, my husband, and my one year old.  But as you can see, it can be easily doubled, tripled, quintupled...you get it.

Cafe Rio Sweet Pork!

I was browsing the web the other day, and I stumbled upon this recipe.  As soon as I saw it, I knew I HAD to try it out.  I made it for FHE last night and it was a huge hit!  You must make this.  It will change your life. 


2 pounds pork (we use boneless pork rib meat)
3 cans Coke (NOT diet)
1/4 c. brown sugar
dash garlic salt
1/4 c. water
1 can sliced green chilies
12-16 oz can enchilada sauce
1 c. brown sugar

Put the pork in a heavy duty ziploc bag to marinade. Add about a can and a half of coke and about 1/4 c. of brown sugar. Marinade for a few hours or overnight.

Drain marinade and put pork, 1/2 can of coke, water, and garlic salt in crock pot on high for about 3-4 hours (or until it shreds easily, but don't let it get TOO dry) or on low for 8 hours. Remove pork from crock pot and drain any liquid left in the pot. Shred pork.

In a food processor or blender, blend 1/2 can Coke, chilies, enchilada sauce and remaining brown sugar (about a cup, you can add a little more or less to taste..). If it looks too thick, add more Coke little by little.

Put shredded pork and sauce in crockpot and cook on low for 2 hours. That's it!


**I doubled this recipe and it was plenty of food for six adults.  I also forgot to double the green chiles and the enchilada sauce (I don't know WHERE my mind is lately) and it still turned out delicious.  So I don't think there's a way to mess this one up! I also made some re-fried beans and mexican rice to go along with it.  It was really good all rolled up in one burrito!**

Banana Muffins

I make these babies every time we have brown bananas in our house.  Which is weekly.

You will need:

 1 1/2 cups flour
 3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 bananas
1 egg
1/3 cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 350

Combine wet and dry ingredients together in seperate bowls.

Fold dry into wet.  Don't overmix!  That's the secret to good muffins.

Get out your muffins liners, or just plop them straight into your muffin tin like I did.

This recipe will make a dozen regular muffins, or six enormous muffins.

Bake regular muffins 10-15 minutes, or large for 25-30.

Top with butter and enjoy!