Pancakes from a Homemade Bisquick Mix: Breakfast Is Served

Pancakes from a Homemade Bisquick Mix: Breakfast Is Served

Hi everybody :)

"Welcome to a New Year of Breakfast Is Served Sunday,"the first breakfast post of 2013! 

If you're just tuning  in to my post, every Sunday I post a Breakfast Is Served. The last Breakfast Is Served was Mini Pecan Pie Muffins.  Today's recipe, comes from Cheri's blog, is  a basic homemade Bisquick mix  used in making these pancakes.  The mix is put together and later used to make pancakes or biscuits by adding milk and/or eggs with additional ingredients, such as blueberries, if desired. Let's get it stared...

Pancakes from a Homemade Bisquick Mix

Homemade Bisquick Mix adapted Kitchen Simplicity
5 cups flour
1/4 cup baking powder
2 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine

Mix together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly.
Store in an airtight container for up to 6 weeks or in the freezer for longer storage.

 Makes approx: 6 cups

For a Whole Wheat Version: Use 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour and 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour with an additional 2 tablespoons baking powder and continue as directed.

To make Biscuits:
Mix together 1/3 cup of milk for every 1 cup of mix. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 450ºF for 10-12 min.
*Add any additional ingredients you wish such as cheese or herbs before adding the milk.
* 1 cup of mix will yield about 6 biscuits.
To make Pancakes:
Mix 2 cups of mix with 1 cup milk and 2 eggs. (I used buttermilk) Cook on hot griddle.

What I Did and/or Think:
The pancakes were fluffy, tender, and buttery delicious! I served them with a blueberry syrup with chopped pecans added. I will be testing the biscuits out very soon. Another Delicious REPEAT!

Thanks to Cheri for sharing this wonderful recipe. For more great ideas on using this, stop by her blog to see what others have say they use the mix for.

ENJOY! Come again 

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Mushroom & Onion Yellow Rice

Mushroom & Onion Yellow Rice

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Today recipe is very similar to the Veggie Rice recipe I posted back in October. I used the same rice combination because I love the favor of the two. Sauteed onions and mushroom are added to the rice instead of the veggie mixture. It's great served along-sided beef, chicken, or pork dishes.  Here's what I did...

Mushroom & Onion Yellow Rice
Ingredients:
1 medium onion; sliced
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 cup long-grain white rice (I used Uncle Ben)
1  1/2 cup Par Excellence Yellow Rice
2 cup chicken stock; reduced sodium, homemade or store-brought
4 cup water
Salt & Pepper to taste 
Addition butter, if desired

In a very large frying pan over medium high heat, saute the onions and mushrooms with 2 tablespoons butter until tender, about 2-3 minutes.  

Add the rice mixture, stock, water, and salt & pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. 

Reduce heat to simmer, cover and cook for 20 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed, rice should be tender. Fluff with additional butter, if desired and served.

 ENJOY! Come again...

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Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake: With an Extra Step

Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake 

 Hi everybody :)

Today I'm sharing one of my family favorites; Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake. The name, "Dump Cake", comes from the fact that all the ingredients used in the cake are basically dumped in a pan on top of each other. This particular dump cake have been seen around often on other blog site. It's simple, easily prepared, and taste delicious. 

Because it's a family favorite, I been making it for years. In the beginning I discovered a problem: When cutting the butter into thin slices over the cake mix, not all the cake mix is covered with the butter, so you would end up with dry cake spots. To fix this; I first tried melting the butter as I seen in some of the dump cakes recipes, but I was not please with that result either. Then I came up with this idea while making biscuit one day, and it produced a buttery flaky dump cake every time.  I put an extra step in the recipe. To ensure the cake mix don't have dry flour spots after baking, I use a pastry blender. Here's what I did...  


 Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake adapted Favorite Brand Name: Easy-to-Bake Cookbook or here

Ingredients:
1(20 oz.) can crushed pineapple with juice; undrained
1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling
1 package DUNCAN HINES® Moist Deluxe® Classic Yellow Cake Mix
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, cut into thin slices

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 13×9-inch pan.
Dump pineapple with juice into prepared pan. Spread evenly. 

Dump in pie filling. Spread evenly. 

 Sprinkle cake mix evenly over cherry layer. (I blend the cake mix and butter with a pastry blender until it resemble small peas, than sprinkled it over cherry layer. This extra step ensure that the cake mix is well coated with butter, so there is no dry cake spots.)

Sprinkle pecans over cake mix. (Because hubby don't like nuts, I only put nuts on part of the cake) Dot with butter. Bake at 350°F for 50 minutes or until top is lightly browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Tip: You can use DUNCAN HINES® Moist Deluxe® Pineapple Supreme Cake Mix in place of Moist Deluxe® Yellow Cake Mix.

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