Turn Ordinary Pancakes Into Extraordinary Pancakes!

Pan­cakes with fresh straw­berry sauce! Divinely deli­cious! So you get to cheat and use Bisquick or what­ever your choice of instant pan­cake mix is. Take these would be ordi­nary pan­cakes and make them into some­thing week­end wor­thy. Straw­ber­ries are still in sea­son and can be found eas­ily. So let’s make a home­made straw­berry sauce…it’s so easy you can do it with your eyes closed! (okay, don’t try that since we’re using a stove and all)

Straw­berry sauce recipe:

1. wash and slice a bas­ket of strawberries

2. squeeze fresh orange juice from a whole orange

3. heat the orange juice in a small sauce pan on medium heat and then add the straw­ber­ries stir­ring often (optional: add 1 tsp sugar or 1 tsp maple syrup to make it sweeter)

4. after about 4–5 min­utes shut off the stove and blend the straw­ber­ries with an immer­sion blender (it you pre­fer a lit­tle chunky tex­ture don’t blend too much)

5. pour straw­berry sauce into a glass gravy boat or creamer and serve with pan­cakes immediately

–Don’t for­get to sprin­kle pow­dered sugar on top and maybe add some fresh mint to pretty your plate.

–If you’d really like to make it extra, extra spe­cial, serve mimosas too! mmmmmm…