Hearty Pancakes from scratch

Hearty Pancakes from scratch

1 cup flour
1/4 cup quick oats or a pkg of instant flavored oats
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 beaten egg
1 cup milk
1 tbsp oil

Mix all dry ingredients together. 

In separate bowl, combine egg, milk and oil. Add dry ingredients,  stirring until moisten. Cook on hot griddle.

* Spice add ins: cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, cardamom.......

* Fruit add ins: berries, sauteed apples, bananas, pumpkin puree, applesauce,......

* Peanut butter, peanuts, pecans, walnuts,.......

Fluffy Dumplings

I love chicken and dumplings. My mother made them when I was growing up and I loved the light pillowy dumplings atop the homemade chicken noodle soup. Yum! 

I made them for my children when they were young too.

Fluffy Dumplings
1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp oil 
In medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well. Add milk and oil. Stir just until moistened. Do not over stir. Drop by teaspoon atop bubbling soup or stew. Cover tightly; let mixture return to boiling. Reduce heat (don't lift cover). Simmer for 12-15 minutes

Indian Fry Bread

Our dear friend, Beverly Harrison, taught a group of women in Ibapah, UT how to make fry bread the authentic Goshute Indian way. 

Oh how we love her for teaching us. 

Oh how we love our fry bread.

Oh how we love our Indian tacos. 

It is usually mistakenly called Navajo tacos or Navajo fry bread because every Native American tribe has fry bread and tacos.

Indian Fry Bread 

4 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tbsp baking powder

1 1/2 cups (or more) HOT tap water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

vegetable oil for frying

Mix flour, salt and baking powder. Add water gradually while mixing with hands. The dough will be slimely like snot. Let rest for several hours at room temp. Pour vegetable oil over top. DO NOT mix it in. Carefully stretch out a ball of dough and fry in very hot oil until golden brown on each side.