Whole Wheat Pancakes

These were really good. It might have been because I cooked them with butter melted on the pan...they don't have pam here. Not sure if I can go back to pam when I get back to the states! ;)

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FLUFFIEST WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK PANCAKES

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Prep time

12 mins

Cook time

13 mins

Total time

25 mins

Serves: 10 pancakes

Ingredients

• 1 cup + 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 and ¼ cup whole wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 and ½ teaspoon light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
• ½ cup blueberries or chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Combine 1 cup milk with vinegar in a medium bowl or a 2 cup measuring cup and set aside for 5 minutes to "sour". Add the egg and melted butter to the soured milk and using a fork or whisk, beat lightly until mixed.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. No need to sift. Stir milk and egg into flour mixture in 2 batches. Set aside for 10 minutes. Add the 2 tablespoons of milk and stir.
3. Heat a nonstick griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately ¼ cup for each pancake. Dot the pancakes with blueberries or chocolate chips as preferred before flipping. Brown on both sides and serve hot.

Asian Salmon with Noodles

I actually haven't made this yet, but I don't see how this recipe could be bad. I put it on the menu for this week. There is a fish store nearby that gets fresh fish from Hamburg. I have been avoiding small shops because I am sure they don't know English, but I am guessing with some pointing and nods we can communicate. :)

Asian salmon and noodles

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

Ingredients for noodles:
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 5 green onions, chopped
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 7-10 regular button mushrooms, sliced, or 1 Portobello mushroom, sliced
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup chicken stock
• 1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce (substitute with any other hot sauce if you don't have Sriracha)
• 60 snow peas, ends trimmed (sorry, I didn't have a scale, so I counted them :)). I think it's about 2 or 3 cups
• 1/2 lb pasta, preferably Fettuccine (half a pound)
Ingredients for salmon:
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1 pound salmon
• salt & pepper
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Instructions

Noodles:
1. Heat sesame oil in a large frying pan on medium-high heat. Add chopped green onions and sesame seeds and saute for 2-3 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms and cook for another 2 minutes on medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat, and add soy sauce, honey, chicken stock, Sriracha - mix everything well to combine.
2. In a separate pan, boil snow peas 3-5 minutes until tender but still crunchy. Drain.
3. In another large pan, bring water to boil and cook pasta for 10-12 minutes or longer (according to pasta instructions) al dente. Drain.
4. Add drained snow peas and pasta to the vegetables and sauce in the large frying pan with vegetables from step 1. Mix everything well and heat everything through on medium-low heat.
To cook salmon:
5. Preheat broiler. Heat large skillet on high heat. Season salmon on non-skin side with salt & pepper, generously. Add oil to the hot skillet: the oil should sizzle. Add salmon to the skillet non-skin side down (skin side up) and sear for 4 minutes, moving the fish around the skillet to make sure oil coats the surface of the fish and that the fish is not sticking to the pan while searing.
6. After these 4 minutes, turn the fish over to the skin side and sear for another 3 minutes on high heat. After searing on the skin side, you can actually remove salmon skin easily at this point and discard, if you don't like to eat it.
7. Mix honey and soy sauce together, heating it a little bit in microwave or on stove top to soften the honey. Brush top of salmon with the honey-soy sauce. Place salmon under the broiler for 3 minutes, watching carefully not to burn salmon. Brush with more sauce midway through broiling, if desired. Broil for a total of 3 minutes until the top of salmon becomes a little charred.
8. At this point, salmon is ready to be served. Or, you can keep salmon covered until you're ready to serve. If your salmon is a little bit undercooked in the middle, then keeping it covered for several minutes before serving will also allow the salmon to continue cooking and it will be perfectly done and not dry when you're ready to serve!