Mmmm, pancakes

Sometimes I think breakfast is one of my favourite meals. You can eat all sorts of delicious things for breakfast like pancakes! Pictured here are some banana pancakes cooking on my griddle before they were covered with maple syrup (the real stuff) and placed in my stomach. I don't really have an official recipe that I use for these, just a list of ingredients I copied down the ingredients on a little bit of lined paper, but I'll share it just the same.

Basic Pancakes

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 2/3 cup milk
• 4 tablespoons cooking oil

1. Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
   
2. Mix together the eggs, milk and cooking oil in a large bowl.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient mixture and mix until smooth.
4. Heat your griddle to medium (coat with a bit of vegetable oil before hand if yours isn't non-stick) and wait for it to be hot enough -- water drops should sizzle on it.
5. Pour about 1/3 cup batter onto the pan per pancake, or however much you want to get the size you desire.
6. Wait until the top is all bubblely and it looks like it's cooked about half-way through and then flip, the pancake side should be golden brown. Cook the other side until it's also golden brown. note: if the outside browns too quickly, turn down the temperature of the pan.
   

To give these some banana flavour, I added 2 small mashed bananas to the wet ingredients, used 1/3 cup less milk and added about 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla.