Chocolate Chip Pancakes

My husband and I really wanted chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast this morning. When I went to the kitchen, much to my dismay, I found that our pancake mix was expired. :( My husband suggested that we look up a recipe to make pancakes from scratch and I found this wonderful chocolate chip pancake recipe by Joyful Abode. They were really easy and we had all the ingredients on hand. We both agreed that we won't be buying another box of mix anytime soon.

Puffy pancakes

Ingredients:
■3 cups flour
■6 Tablespoons sugar
■1/4 tsp. salt
■2 Tablespoons baking powder
■3 eggs
■1/3 cup canola oil
■1+ cup milk
 
Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the wet ingredients. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add milk if needed. Cook in a pan over medium heat (or on a griddle if you’re fancy like that). Enjoy!

Throw together bean salad

I had some left over black beans in the fridge that I wanted to use, but since my cook books are all still in boxes from the move and I was too lazy to get online, I just deicded to throw some things together. I started with the black beans and some diced white onions in the fridge. I cooked some frozen corn then strained it and ran it under cold water. I added that to the bead. Add a dash of olive oil and fresh lime juice (half a lime or so). Also add some salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin. Mix and serve. I think this would be good with lots of other things so I suspect we will play around with this one.

New Grill Shrimp

We got a new grill this spring and wanted to make some seafood. I saw a link to a recipe recently called "Spicy Lime Chicken." I didn't read it and sent it to myself to make later. When we decided on making shrimp, I was too lazy to look up the recipe so I thought I would take a stab at it and it turned out pretty good.

Put shrimp in a bowl and add lime juce from half a lime, a but of olive oil, some diced up garlic, and salt, pepper, cayenne and let it set for a while. Then skewer and grill.