Breakfast for Dinner

It was another one of those “What on earth am I going to do for dinner?” kind of nights. This time I decided to have “Breakfast Night.” Pancakes and eggs sounded good. But not just plain old pancakes. Last time I sent my husband to Costco, he came home with Krusteaz Pumpkin Spice Quick Bread Mix. I wondered if that could be used to make pancakes.

The first thing I did was check their website. Nope, there were no recipes or even mention of the possibility of using that mix for pancakes. There was a time in my life when that would have been that. I would have gone no further and we would have had plain old pancakes. But, I guess I’ve grown – in the kitchen, anyway. I decided to give it a go.

I started out with one cup of the mix and one cup of milk, and added 1 tablespoon of canola oil and one egg. Well, that was too much milk, the batter was way too thin. So I had to add a few more spoonfulls of the mix. I probably should have started with 2/3 cup of milk and worked it from there.

Ultimately I had to make the batter thicker than my usual pancake batter for the pancakes to turn out just right. But, it worked! We had delicious pumpkin pancakes for dinner along with fried eggs, over easy, and maple bacon. OK, so this would not go into the healthy, whole food category. But it was a nice treat. I think it’s the first time we’ve had “Breakfast Night” for dinner since the three year old has been around. He got a big kick out of it.

I did pick up a couple of pumpkins yesterday to cook with. I’ll post on that probably next week. I’ll see how much pumpkin meat I come up with and then decide what to make. heh, heh, heh. Stay tuned.