sunday brunch

The best weeks start off with a lazy Sunday morning brunch consisting of pancakes, orange juice, pajamas, and the newspaper.  Although, really, you could swap out pancakes for waffles/biscuits/eggs and I would still be perfectly happy.

New week, new start.  With lots of butter.

Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
slightly adapted from Allrecipes.com

3/4 cup milk

2 tablespoons white vinegar

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons white sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon butter, melted

cooking spray

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

-  Heat a large skillet over medium heat and coat with cooking spray.

-  Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl. 

-  Whisk egg and butter and vanilla extract into milk.

-  Whisk the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until batter is mostly smooth. 

-  Pour batter onto the pre-heated skillet and cook until bubbles appear.

-  Flip with a spatula and cook until lightly browned on the other side. 

-  Makes approximately four large pancakes.