Buttermilk Pancakes

Do you know the easiest way to start someone's day off right? Wake them up by saying, "Want me to make pancakes for you?" 

If your someone is like my someone, the half-asleep head that was resting on your shoulder will jerk back and sleepy eyes will half-open and you'll be rewarded with an inquisitive squeak.

"Want me to make pancakes?" you'll repeat.

"You wanna make pancakes for me?" your sleepy someone will ask, because it's early and they aren't quite awake yet.

"Yeah, let me make you pancakes," you say. And your sleepy someone will give you a hug while they stretch, and you'll get a yawn in your face full of slightly smelly morning breath, and you'll give a big hug back because buttermilk pancakes = love. This is a fact.

Anyways, these pancakes are pretty lovely. They're delicious and fluffy, and considering that I don't even really like pancakes, I like these ones. Because they're that good. Also because I love my sleepy someone, but they are still delicious enough where I'm willing to eat them on a fairly regular basis. I originally snagged the recipe from here. The recipe below is adjusted down for two people, because I'm not trying to feed an army, jeez.

Ingredients:

1 cup buttermilk

3 tablespoons milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt 

Directions:

Mix the buttermilk, milk, and egg to a mixing bowl. Let these guys sit out for about an hour until they come down to room temperature – you'll get fluffier pancakes. I usually make coffee and clean the dishes and tidy up the kitchen, then start back up with adding in the rest of the ingredients. 

Before adding anything to your bowl, put your pan on the stove and heat it up. It's ready when you can flick some water on it and it sizzles. 

 
Grab your bowl of wet ingredients and add in the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and butter. You want to mix it with a fork until it's juuuuusssttt baaarrreeelllyyy mixed together (you want the batter to stay lumpy). 

 
Pop those babies in your pan, flip them when the bubbles pop but their holes stay, and enjoy! Though to be honest with the cooking part, my sleepy someone has usually woken up and is in charge of the cooking and flipping, because I'm too nervous to flip the pancakes. Alas, we all have our weaknesses.