Herbed Flatbread

Sometime last spring I received a text message from a friend and fellow medical student asking if I could recreate a flatbread they tried at a restaurant in Minneapolis. Never one to decline a challenge, I tasted samples and spent some time in the kitchen trying to recreate the light, flaky texture and wonderful flavor of fresh herbs in this flatbread. After doing some research and several attempts later, I realized I was making this far too complicated and instead needed to approach this flatbread not as a yeast bread, but as a quick bread.

Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes

A lazy weekend morning with a plate of warm pancakes is a rare gift these days, and one of the things I look forward to most. My mom made the best pancakes I've ever tasted, a recipe she received from an old friend many years ago. Unfortunately, one batch makes enough pancakes to feed twenty hungry duck hunters on a cold October morning, and no matter how I've tried there just isn't a good way to cut the recipe and have the same quality product. I will admit, this isn't quite the same as our family recipe, but it's a very close second and you won't need to invite the entire neighborhood to your house to help eat leftovers.