How do you like your pancakes?

[Owlie]

The pumpkin ones sound amazing, as I am a pumpkin fiend. Do you reduce the amount of liquid you add? I'll have to check the local Meijer for the mix.

I like buttermilk pancakes, except that I usually use milk that's on the verge of expiring. I top them with butter and real maple syrup.

[Blueberry]

I've made these Pumpkin Pancakes before, and they were good. I usually don't have room in my calorie budget for pancakes, though....

[Scrappy]

We like to add any combination to a whole wheat base (corn pancakes the exception):

Psyillum husk
Shredded coconut
Flax seeds
Dried cranberries
dried oatmeal

fresh/powdered ginger
Molasses
pumpkin pie spice
vanilla

fresh corn
agave
vanilla

Fresh bananas
berries
apples

for the top:
Chopped apples+cinnamon+sugar+vanilla+butter. mix in glass bowl and microwave for 1 min. = Caramel Apple topping

[Elphaba]

Homemade (from scratch) with maple (not imitation) syrup and maragrine...for easy spreading.

[spokewench]

If somone else is cooking them, I like my pancakes on my plate ready and warm to eat! Just being silly.

I have a recipe at home for pumpkin pancakes with pecans - they are really good. Love real maple syrup, don't need butter just wasted calories.

[shootingstar]

I don't make pancakes. But he's pro at making crepes. Probably at least once a month he makes them. He's got his 30 yr. old technique refined and solid. And makes lovely thin crepes quickly. Often we freeze a batch.

He also makes the filling /topping which is creative. Usually some sort of berry, plum, peach or rhubarb or combinations of 3-4 fruits as a compote. Flavoured with grated ginger root, cinnamon, crushed aniseed. Really yummers.

[Pax]

I haven't eaten a pancake in years... might have to have one soon... that pumpkin pancake sounds gooood!

[tzvia]

Pancakes. Naw. Bought a Belgium waffle maker, one of those pour in, close and flip electric ones. So it's easy to do. I use either Trader Joes or krusteaz brand mix, and add salba and walnuts to it, along with a drop or two of real vanilla. I then add a little cinnamon on top and real maple sirup. Sometimes I put strawberries or blueberries on top so I can say it's healthy . For oil I use a small amount of coconut oil. It's basically what I used to do for pancakes.

[zoom-zoom]

I don't make pancakes. But he's pro at making crepes. Probably at least once a month he makes them. He's got his 30 yr. old technique refined and solid. And makes lovely thin crepes quickly. Often we freeze a batch.

I make MEAN crepes...I don't really use a recipe, just know sort of rough quantities of butter, eggs, flour, and milk to use.

But that Meijer pancake mix sounds great. I have yet to find a Meijer Naturals or Gold product that I didn't LOVE!

[shootingstar]

I'm sure your crepes are great, zoom-zoom.

Dearie doesn't really have a recipe either. He has rough proportional quantities of the same ingredients --except he might add nutmeg or cinnamon. Not always. His lst crepe is always like a "test" or "eat-throwaway" because it's to help "proof" the pan. We don't use a teflon nor iron cast pan which is why I admire his skill because the crepes are thin, even and aren't burnt.

He usually makes at minimum 8-10 crepes in 1 batch or more. This summer I'm glad during her rare visit (since I live thousands kms. far from my family), a sister and her family with 3 children had his creative-on-the-fly crepes with homemade blackberry-blueberry-raspberry-rhubarb compote. Homemade compote is handy because one doesn't need to pour on syrup...with all the wonderful natural juices. The children loved it ..even with such a complicated sounding compote.

I really should learn some crepe stuff from him. We each have our specialty cooking/baking (he does more baking than I do) strengths.

[SadieKate]

If somone else is cooking them, I like my pancakes on my plate ready and warm to eat! Just being silly.

Ditto!

Fresh pancakes - just add chunky unsweetened applesause
Leftover pancakes - toast and sprinkle with powered sugar.

[GLC1968]

I have a couple of grain-free pancake recipes that I make on occasion, but we don't eat them very often. They just don't have good 'staying' power for me.

That said, if I lived near a Cracker Barrel, I'd be all over a plate of their pecan pancakes topped with real maple syrup. YUM! (thankfully, there are no Cracker Barrel's in my area)

[Owlie]

In honor of this thread, I had buttermilk pancakes and bacon for dinner tonight. Now I need to make another batch of pancakes. (I make them in double batches and freeze them.)