Blueberry Pancakes

This original recipe comes out of an old cook book that a friend of mine once found at a garage sale. It has a lot of great recipes and I use it quite often. It's hard to find newer cook books that dont include mixes that I can't get here in Sweden. This is old school and everything is from scratch.

Recipe

ingredients:

1.5 cups of flour
1 tbs sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
1.5 cups milk
2 tbs melted butter(not margarine)
2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/5 cup blueberries

1. Combine Flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the vanilla and mixture of beaten egg yolks and milk: beat until well done.
2. Beat the egg whites until stiff, not dry, lay over the batter, then add the blue berries. Fold the mix together
3. Heat your frying pan until quite hot, add a little butter and pour your batter into pancakes. Turn the pancakes when they fluff up and get lots of bubbles. Turn only once.
4. Serve the pancakes immediately on a plate and top with a little butter and real maple syrup. They can try to say the fake stuff tastes as good, but that just aint so. 

Nice sunset this evening

Oven baked chicken wings

Buffalo wings

When I was 20 you could get wings for 10 cents a piece at any bar or pub. Popcorn shrimp were also 10 cents each as well. Those days are long gone. The chicken wing used to be scrap and thrown away but then one day, some very smart person, decided that it could be sold as a snack. In the beginning wings were fried and than put in a bowl of hot sauce. In the last 30 years they have figured out that all that fat is really bad for us so it was time to start baking wings instead. The good thing is baking wings is extremely easy. 

Start by putting a mix of your favorite spices in a plastic bag. Add the wings and shake them around to get spice on all the wings. I like to let them stand for an hour to make sure that the chicken absorbs as much flavor as possible. Heat the oven to 180 C. I have a pan with a rack that I like to use, but you can just put tinfoil in a pan and use that as well. Make sure the wings are spread out and put them on the middle rack in the oven. After 20 minutes turn all the wings over and turn the oven to 200 C and put the wings back in for another 20 minutes. 

Today I did a chili and ginger spice mix and then some Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce when the wings are almost done, just a little. You can serve with carrot and celery sticks or just some fresh baked bread. Easy food for sure!