I've been experimenting with recipes to take on our camping trips with us, to keep from having to buy quick and easy convenience foods to make some parts of camping easier.
Now, everyone has seen those plastic bottles of Bisquick pancake mix -- add water, shake, and pour. These are WONDERFUL for camping, but not cheap, and certainly not healthy. I found an old Bisquick cookbook which had campfire flapjacks in it, which involved Bisquick, cornmeal, and water, and tried those out last weekend. This weekend I tried something just a bit different, and they came out So Good. This'll be the mix I bring with me camping.
Whole Grain Campfire Pancakes
1 1/4 cups lowfat Bisquick
3/4 cups wholegrain instant hot cereal (Hodgson Mills)
sprinkling of nutmeg (to taste)
heavy sprinkling of cinnamon (to taste)
1 1/3 to 1 1/2 cup cold water
fresh blueberries or chocolate chips
Heat a cast iron pan over medium flame until warm. Spray with non-stick cooking spray (spray just before each set of pancakes).
Mix Bisquick, whole grain cereal, and spices together until well-mixed. Add water until desired thickness of pancake batter. I found a little thinner batter made it cook through better. But the thicker batter puffed up really nicely.
Scoop out onto hot pan. Sprinkle either blueberries or chocolate chips onto pancake as the first side cooks. Wait until edges dry out, then flip and finish off. Serve hot!!
Posted by Deb Atwood at May 30, 2005 08:32 PM | TrackBack