Blueberry Pancake & Mimosa Anniversary Brunch with Air Fryer Eggs!

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Our 16th anniversary was last month and we had a great day starting with a blueberry pancake and mimosa anniversary brunch!

Compal Fita Azul Lidl Anniversary Brunch

How to Make Pancakes 101

When making pancakes, I prefer to use a combination of butter and oil in the pan. Yes, you heard me right. This is not to be extra, there is a reason!

Butter helps create lovely golden crisp on your pancake, but it also burns faster than oil. So as you continue cooking pancakes you’re more likely to get some a little too dark if you use only butter because of how the pan will retain heat.

Blueberry Pancake Lidl Anniversary Brunch — How To Make A Blueberry Pancake

When you add some oil to the butter and swirl it together, you essentially increase the smoking point, so you can get that buttery golden touch without burning so easily! Still, keep an eye on the heat of your pan and adjust as needed.

I tossed a few blueberries on, just for fun. You can use frozen blueberries for pancakes. That’s what these were. 🙂

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How Do You Know When to Flip a Pancake?

It’s important to let the first side of a pancake cook enough to enable a successful flip. Wait until you see lots of little bubbles on the surface like below and then go for it!

Try to flip with confidence and voila! You’ve revealed your golden-edged pancake – well done!

Golden Pancake Lidl Anniversary Brunch — Use Butter + Oil (even on a non stick pan!) To Get a Golden Edged Pancake

What to Serve with Blueberry Pancakes

I wanted to make the meal a little more complete and eggs are a natural choice, however I only have access to a single burner cook top at the moment which was occupied for the pancakes. So I decided to attempt to make eggs in the air fryer along with these tasty duchess potatoes.

Air Fryer Eggs Duchess Potatoes Lidl Anniversary Brunch — Cooking Fried Eggs in an Air Fryer Alongside Lidl Duchess Potatoes — Air Fryer Cooking

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How Long to Cook Fried Eggs in an Air Fryer

My search online indicated that it would only take 3-4 minutes to cook an egg with a runny yolk in the air fryer.

So I first cooked the duchess potatoes almost completely, minus about 5 minutes. Then I added the reusable silicone dinosaur molds (its all I had lol) for those last few minutes in order to time everything poiiiifectly!

Well timed, but not well photographed – forgot! Sorry!

Fita Azul Blanc de Blancs Reserva — Espumante

Fita Azul Sparkling Wine Bottle Lidl Anniversary Brunch

Fita Azul Sparkling Wine Label Lidl Anniversary Brunch

Some friends had kindly brought us a bottle of Fita Azul Blanc de Blancs Reserva Espumante recently and this was perfect to make some anniversary mimosas!

Tap an image below to enlarge it if you’d like to read the bottle!

How to Make a Mimosa

I think a mimosa is technically champagne and orange juice, but lots of folks use prosecco and even more use any affordable and tasty sparkling wine they have access to. 🙂 That’s us!

Try This for a Mimosa with a Twist!

So in my head, I thought if you pour juice on top of the sparkling wine, doesn’t that collapse some of the bubbles? Maybe, idk, but apparently the ‘right’ way is to pour the sparkling wine in first and then top with orange juice.

Fita Azul Sparkling Wine Lidl Anniversary Brunch — Mimosa Step One: Pour 1/2 or 2/3 Sparkling Wine, Prosecco, or Champagne

What is the Correct Ratio of Wine to Juice in a Mimosa?

Surprise, surprise, there are different schools of thought on this also. Some say 50:50, others say 2/3 sparkling wine/champagne to 1/3 orange juice. I say do whatever tastes great to you!

Want mostly orange juice with a bit of fizz? Go for it.
Want mostly champagne with a bit of OJ? Go for it!

This is a low stress, easy-to-make, fun drink for a celebration. It’s a special occasion – enjoy it!

PS. When in Portugal, if you can, please do try the fresh orange juice machines in grocery stores. The orange juice is delicious and as fresh as can be because you toss the oranges in yourself!

If you’re going for juice from the juice isle, look specifically for the “laranja do algarve” labels as these orange juices feature the best oranges in Portugal – the ones from the beautiful, sunny Algarve. 😉