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Blueberry Buttermilk Pancake Ingredients

• 4 tbsp melted buttermilk
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 large eggs at room temperature
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Instructions for making Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

This hearty ragout is perfect for a cold fall or winter day, and delicious served over mashed potatoes.

Chicken Ragout Ingredients

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup smoked bacon, thickly sliced and diced 1/2 inch wide
• 1/4 pounds brown or white button mushrooms, quartered
• 1 cup pearl onions, whole and peeled
• 1/2 cup dry white wine
• 1/2 tsp fresh thyme leaves or substitute 1/8 tsp dried
• 1.5 cups chicken or beef broth
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter, chilled

Chicken Ragout Instructions

1. Combine the flour with the salt and pepper to season. Add the chicken to the flour and toss to coat. Shake off the excess and set aside.
2. Heat a pan large enough to hold all the ingredients over medium high heat. When the pan is hot add the butter and when the butter has melted and is foaming add the chicken cubes. Brown the chicken on all sides, reducing the heat if the bottom of the pan starts to brown too quickly (which should take 4-6 minutes).
3. Remove the chicken with a slotted spoon and hold in a warm place. Pour off all the excess grease and add the bacon. Cook until the bacon has rendered some of its fat and is starting to crisp. Add the mushrooms and onions and toss to coat with the bacon fat. Cook until the mushrooms are a light golden brown and the onions have started to color.
4. Deglaze the pan with the white wine and cook over high heat until the wine is completely reduced, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.

Greg and I have been obsessed with tasty and healthy sweet potatoes lately, and have incorporated it into the unlikeliest of places...like breakfast pancakes!

Sweet Potato Pancake ingredients

• 2/3 cup flour
• pinch salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1.5 cups milk
• 1 egg
• 1 large sweet potato mashed
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• pinch of favorite spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom)

Sweet Potato Pancake process

Peel and cut up your sweet potato and put in pot of boiling water until soft. While the potato is cooking, mix dry ingredients and add them to the wet ingredients. Finally, mix mashed potatoes into mixture and stir briefly. Use plett pan or regular skillet. Buen provecho!

It's hard to judge the proper ratio of ingredients because sweet potato sizes can vary. The consistency should be just like your favorite pancake batter.

Here's a delicious recipe for authentic red chile.

Red Chile Ingredients

• meat chunks (cut in cubes)
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 3 cloves pressed garlic
• 5 heaping tablespoons New Mexico red chile
• 3 heaping tbsp flour
• 32 ounces water
• pinch of salt

Red Chile instructions

Warm up skillet and add veggie oil and cloves. Add meat chunks and brown. Add red chile and toast for a few minutes. Separately, mix flour and water and then add to skillet mixture. Finally, add salt and simmer until the mixture thickens up a bit.

Nikki and Greg live in the beautiful Baker Neighborhood in Denver, Colorado.

About Nikki - Spanish Teacher, Lover of Spanish Culture

Nikki graduated college with a degree in Politics and a minor in Spanish and planned to change the world through social work. She worked for several non-profits in Denver, often with Spanish-speaking populations which let her use her Spanish on a day to day basis. After a few years and not much fulfillment she decided to switch careers and found a company becoming a Spanish teacher at the Denver Spanish House.

Nikki is on Linkedin.

About Greg - Drupal Consultant, Trainer, "Geek"

Greg loves building things (and breaking them apart and putting them together again). He's done a lot of jobs, but they basically all can be defined as "solving technology problems." He loves building websites and has founded his own company Growing Venture Solutions to focus on consulting and training in the Open Source software platform Drupal.

Greg is on Twitter and LinkedIn and uses Flickr sometimes.

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