Taste the Love: July 2020

Sunday mornings are slow and easy at our house. Inevitably, there is bacon or breakfast sausages from the St. Jacobs Farmers Market to cook up... and I’ve got the time to make a fresh fruit salad and these EASY sourdough pancakes or waffles while everything is sizzling on the stovetop.

This really is the easiest process... in fact, I barely look at the recipe these days! I just toss everything in a bowl, mix it up, and cook them up in a pan or our awesome waffle maker.

If I’m building my starter for a sourdough bread bake, I usually have some leftover sourdough starter, but using an active starter isn’t even necessary. I’ve made these with week old starter, and it turns out just fine every time!

This was leftover starter that had been fed and used a day or two before for making sourdough bread. I purposely made extra so it could be used for our Sunday brunch.

See how happy and bubbly my Lizzie can be if she’s ready for both bread AND waffles or pancakes?

Either way, I use @bakewithjack’s scrapings method... after using almost all the starter, I immediately toss some bread flour into my container, stir and scrape all the dried bits down, add a splash of water, and mix well before placing it back into the fridge for the next time I need it.

Now, let’s make our waffles or pancakes!

In a bowl, pour 1-2 cups of of sourdough starter, and add:

2 eggs

1 generous teaspoon of cinnamon (to taste)

1-2 Tbsp of sugar (to taste)

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 rounded teaspoon of baking powder

2 swirls of avocado oil or equivalent (2 Tbsp) melted butter

Mix well... adding either water/milk or a little all purpose flour to achieve the perfect consistency.

I find pancakes need a thicker texture if you want that nice puffy result... and waffles need a runnier consistency which I achieve by adding an extra tablespoon of oil or butter so it doesn’t stick and it gets a bit crispier.

This is just right for waffles, but it needs to be a bit thicker for pancakes.
Here’s a picture of a bowl of banana pancakes that needed a little bit of extra flour.