Pancakes

Pancakes!

Ingredients
3/4 cup milk (or buttermilk. If using buttermilk, don't use the vinegar)
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1tsp vanilla
2 tablespoons butter, melted
cooking spray

Directions
Mix the milk with the vinegar in a bowl and let set for about 5 minutes.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl.
Whisk the egg, vanilla, and butter into the milk, then add to the dry ingredients
Heat a skillet over medium heat and, spray with cooking spray
Pour batter into pancakes on the skillet!
When the bubbles start to form on the top, flip them over and cook untill browned on the other side.
Done, delicious.


Milk         $0.20
Flour       $0.50
Butter      $0.25
                $0.95

Biscuits and sausage gravy

Biscuits and sausage gravy!

1lb bulk breakfast sausage
2 cups of milk
1/4 cup of flour
salt and pepper to taste.

Crumble and cook sausage in large skillet over medium heat until browned.
Stir in flour until dissolved and slowly add the milk. Cook until it is all thick and bubbly and delicious
Salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with fresh biscuits!

Biscuits
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Gradually stir in milk until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl.
Turn out onto a floured surface, and knead 15 to 20 times. Pat or roll dough out to 1 inch thick. Cut biscuits with a large cutter or juice glass dipped in flour. Repeat until all dough is used. Brush off the excess flour, and place biscuits onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges begin to brown.
(This biscuit recipe was found at the allrecipes website  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/jps-big-daddy-biscuits/detail.aspx )


Sausage  $2.50
Milk          $0.82
Flour        $0.50
                $3.82

Vegetable soup

Ingredients
1tbs oil
.5lb mushrooms (sliced)
.5 cup chopped onion
2.5 cups water
1 bay leaf
1tsp dried thyme
1tsp beef bouillon
3/4tsp garlic powder
.5tspsalt
1/4tsp black pepper
3 medium potatoes (cut into chunks)
3 large carrots (cut into chunks about the same size as the potatoes)
1.5 cups chopped celery


Directions
In a pot heat the oil and add the mushrooms and onion, cook about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add all other ingredients but the celery and cook for about 20 minutes.
Add celery, cook 10 more minutes or until the potatoes and carrots are tender.
Don't forget to remove the bay leaf.



Mushrooms        1.99
Onions                0.25
Potatoes             0.75
Carrots               0.75
Celery                 0.50
                          $4.24

Sweet clover rolls

Not really a meal, but crazy delicious, like puffy little clouds.

Ingredients

1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

1/2 cup warm milk

2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast

1/3 cup honey

1 egg

1/3 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup butter, melted

1 teaspoon salt

4 cups all-purpose flour*

Some sort of course salt (I use sea salt)

 

Directions

Mix water, honey, and milk together, add yeast and allow to proof until foamy, about 10-15 minutes.

Add 1/3 cup butter, beaten egg, 2 cups of flour, and salt. Mix together.

Add the rest of the flour about 1/2 a cup at a time.

Once it is all incorporated, lightly coat counter with oil (I use the kind in a spray can), roll dough out onto oiled surface, and then spray the top. The dough is pretty wet and sticky, that's why the oil, and not flour.

Knead the dough for 5-10 minutes. Then place in an oiled bowl, cover with a wet towel, and let rise in a warm place. What I do, is I put it in the oven, and then boil some water, and out the pot on the lower shelf of the oven and close it. Humid and warm.

Once it is doubled, punch it down. Spray (or wipe down) the inside of a muffin tin with oil. Using a table spoon worth of dough, roll it into a ball. Place three balls of dough in each muffin tin. Once all are full, brush them with melted butter and sprinkle lightly with course salt. Put in oven and let rise

Once they're about doubled in size, bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.

 

 

Egg         $0.10

Honey     $0.25

Butter     $0.50

Milk         $0.14

               $0.99

 

* I also make this using 2 cups all purpose flour, and 2 cup whole wheat. Turns out delicious. The dough is dryer and not sticky this way. If using only half all purpose, then use flour on your kneading board. The pictures below are made with only half all purpose.