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I'd like to make these pancakes you describe. I'm assuming you melt the butter first before mixing it in? Roughly how much milk is a good starting point?
I used to make Bisquick pancakes all the time, and recently changed to a name brand just add water kind because I tried it for camping once and realized it tastes just as good as the Bisquick, or good enough. I'm assuming that's because Bisquick pancakes are also not actually that good, based on others in this thread.
I like convenience, but I also like good food. I'm gonna make both and do a blind taste test with the wife.
This is us basically. Though we're pretty busy, so we usually try to cook 2 maybe 3 meals a week, and eat the leftovers on the days in between.
Don't get me wrong, we cook good stuff, we just purposely make a lot. I'm not going through all that effort for one tiny meal, unless it makes sense to do so, like we won't be home for meal times or something so it would go bad.
But we keep some premix stuff around, and I have a few fast but not so healthy scratch recipes I can whip up in a jiffy. That's usually us on Tuesday nights.
I've got one where I literally just throw rice, chix broth, frozen precooked (by me) chicken, frozen mixed veggies, and garlic/other spices into a rice cooker. That way I can just slap it together, jump in the shower, and eat quick before leaving again. Sometimes life is just that way.