Moms Swedish Pancakes

In honor of Mothers Day I'm posting one of my all time favorite Mom meals. My favorite and I'm sure one of yours, Swedish Pancakes. Easy and delicious. If you don't know how to make these, this should help.

Before doing anything, for the love of all that is good in the world put on some music. Preferably something with a brass instrument involved. Your pancakes will come out better.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 Tsp salt
• 1 Tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 4 Tb melted butter

Mix everything together like in the video. Turn the stove on med-high, about a 7 on electric, eyeball if using gas. Let the pan get nice and hot. I use a cast iron, they work great and probably the most diverse item in my kitchen. Pick one up, it'll last 100 years easily. Once the pan is hot, lift it off the stove with one hand and ladle the batter in with the other. Rotate the pan until the batter forms a thin coat around the bottom of the pan. Put the pan back on the stove and leave it for 60-90 seconds. Using a spatula lift the edges around the pancake until it frees from the pan. Flip that sucker. Give it another 30 seconds or so and it's cooked. You may find that sometimes the first pancake sticks to the pan and sometimes it doesn't. This is normal. Pancake batter and pans are like people. Some people you meet and you get along right away, sometimes it takes a little time to get used to each other.

At this point you'll want a topping. I like to lay a row of fruit and roll it up with the fruit inside. Soft fruits like strawberries, blueberries, raspberries can go in raw. Harder stone fruits (usually has a pit or seeds inside) apples, pears, peaches, nectarines can be cooked in a little butter and cinnamon/sugar until soft. Cooking a ripe, juicy, sweet summer peach in butter, cinnamon and sugar and stuffing them in a pancake is one of the greatest things in galaxy and should be experienced at least once. But get creative, I've had Nutella and banana slices, ham and swiss, bacon and scrambled eggs, peanut butter and jelly, maple syrup (if using syrup do a Canadian proud and get the real thing, most generic brands are corn syrup and maple flavor. Don't get that.) Anything you want that sounds good, give it a go.

I have a lot of fond memories of Mom making pancake after pancake after pancake after pancake and us seeing how many we could eat. Now I think of that whenever I make these, which is usually a lot. Happy Mothers Day!