Breakfast for Dinner: Short Stacks

By Katie Barreira

Who says pancakes are only to be eaten before noon? Whip up a fluffy stack for dinner with this classic flapjack recipe and step-by-step tips for making the perfect pancake.

5 Ways to Get Your Perfect Pancake:

My mom always separates the egg yolks and whites, adding the yolks to the liquid ingredients, then whipping and folding in the whites just before cooking; her pancakes are always light and airy.

My favorite way to cook pancakes is on an electric griddle. The steady, even temperature makes for fluffy, golden flapjacks and the large surface area means fewer batches.

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Hot Breakfast in a Hurry

By David Hu

Growing up, both my parents worked outside the home. But despite their busy schedules, they always found time to make a home-cooked meal for breakfast and dinner. For breakfast I especially remember pancakes, muffins, waffles, French toast and sunny side up eggs and rice with Portuguese sausage (a Hawaiian favorite).

As I get older, weekday breakfasts have become much less elaborate but I do try to make an effort. I’ve found two keys for weekday breakfast success: either make-ahead breakfasts like granola, or recipes with very few ingredients like breakfast burritos or healthy smoothies.

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Pancakes – Because Breakfast Should be more than Eggs

By Sandy Hu

Okay, I confess. Steve started making breakfast for the kids when they were growing up because he thought they should have more than eggs.

I love eggs and they’re my idea of breakfast –scrambled, sunny-side up, boiled, omelets or in the hole. Steve’s is pancakes, waffles, biscuits, popovers and muffins. Who do you think won out? The kids and I chose his, of course. And I blissfully relinquished breakfast-making duties to him.

Never one to let a recipe alone, Steve would improvise, experiment, research, try other versions of the recipe, until he created one to his satisfaction. And on weekday and weekend mornings, we would wake up to delicious smells from the kitchen of something freshly prepared, waiting for us at the breakfast table.

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Welcome the Morning with Blueberry Sour Cream Pancakes

By Lori Powell

Finally snow! Yes, I welcome the white stuff but have to say part of the excitement is because I have a new snow blower. This storm only left us with about three inches, so it wasn’t exactly snow blower worthy. I got my exercise the old-fashioned way, with a snow shovel.

Having finished the deed leaves you invigorated and hungry. I felt I earned an all-American breakfast consisting of my own chickens’ eggs (scrambled) with a couple of slices of Applegate Farms Organic Sunday Bacon (my fave) and some fresh blueberry pancakes.

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Crispy Bacon Pancakes – My New Craving

By Lori Powell

I love a leisurely breakfast on the weekends and my favorite is Saturday brunch. After working all week, it’s such a luxurious treat to stay in bed one hour longer and to lounge around in my PJs after that.

I have to admit I am not such a big breakfast eater during the week and most days, I have a homemade juice of whatever fruits and veggies are in the fridge and/or a hard-boiled egg. However on the weekend, my idea of a good, balanced breakfast is a hit of sweet and savory.

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